Kicking off 14 Arabian nights
Penn Arab Student Society is holding Arabian Fortnight — a two-week celebration of games, speaker events and a movie screening aimed at raising awareness of Arab culture and heritage.
Faith finds a following at Penn
Though Penn was not founded as a seminary or a divinity school, the impact of religion on individual students’ lives is profound enough for the University community as a whole to take notice.
Lessons from Afghani high school students
The Penn Women’s Center hosted a dialogue with a group of students from Marefat High School near Kabul.
Students tour Egypt over break
Organized by the Wharton Arabian Gulf Business Association, the aim of the trip was to experience both the cultural and the economic facets of Egypt.
Students detained in Panama
Three international Penn students were held for three hours in a Panama airport while returning from an Alternative Spring Break trip to Costa Rica because they did not have appropriate Visas.
IFC approves new fraternity
The Interfraternity Council voted March 3 to allow a new fraternity chapter on campus and to change its expansion policy, according to IFC President and Wharton junior Christian Lunoe.
Penn plans diversity weekend
The University will invite Asian, black, Latino, American Indian and LGBT alumni and current students to the first-ever “Spectrum Weekend.”
On interfaith trip, students unite to volunteer
Muslim and Jewish students worked on community service projects in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward over spring break.
University to host major Asian American conference
Approximately 1,400 students from all over the East Coast and as far as Nevada and California will travel to Penn for the 2010 East Coast Asian American Student Union conference.
It's easy being Green
His bum may have been on the rail in 1999, but last night comedian and actor Tom Green’s bum was in Zellerbach Theatre to host the 12th Annual Intercollegiate Comedy Festival.