Fall Festival crowds small but enthusiastic

Saturday afternoon, College Green was transformed into a yoga studio, concert venue and carnival at the Social Planning and Events Committee’s inaugural Fall Festival.

Student activists continue to protest Penn involvement with HEI corporation

“No more union busting,” read one of the banners at the Student Labor Action Project’s rally in front of College Hall and Steinberg-Dietrich Hall Friday.

ALA makes paying for college a little bit easier

Last Friday night at La Casa Latina’s 10th anniversary celebration, ALA announced the creation of an emergency fund to help students in financial straits.

Clinic ‘bridges’ language gap in S. Phila.

In response to the current H1N1 influenza outbreak, one organization in South Philadelphia is working with Penn students and professors to both treat and educate.

Celebrating Latin Heritage | La Casa Latina holds 10th-anniversary event

The focus of the center's anniversary gala was the future of Latinos at Penn.

Celebrating Latin Heritage | Nieves makes waves of social change on Telemundo

While most students are in class on Tuesday afternoons, College senior Christine Nieves is busy hosting her own show on Telemundo.

Nieves' work in Latino community is 'groundbreaking'

While most students are in class on Tuesday afternoons, College senior Christine Nieves is busy hosting her own show on Telemundo.

U. Council policy to benefit minorities

At Sunday’s Undergraduate Assembly meeting — the first this semester — the group passed a proposal to give one of its nine UC seats to the Nominations and Elections Committee, giving the NEC a total of seven seats.

As La Casa Latina celebrates 10 years, director reflects on center's role

Johnny Irizarry, director of La Casa Latina — the cultural hub for Latinos at Penn — has been an educator and community organizer for the Latino community in Philadelphia for over 20 years. Irizarry sat down with The Daily Pennsylvanian to discuss La Casa.

Reporter's Notebook | Queer eye for the Phila. guy

Each year during New Student Orientation, LGBT Center Director Bob Schoenberg leads a group of students in a proseminar that takes the form of a tour of Philadelphia's Gayborhood.

Janice Dow replaces Ezegozie Eze as face of United Minorities Council

After a summer of deliberation, Eze, a Wharton and College senior, resigned as UMC chairman. College junior Janice Dow, current UMC vice chairwoman and a former Daily Pennsylvanian opinion artist, will take his place.

Joan Didion describes "magical thinking" at Kelly Writers House

Joan Didion's National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Year of Magical Thinking, speaks of the difficulties of coming to terms with the death of one's loved ones. As part of the yearly Fellows program at the Kelly Writers House, Didion read excerpts from her latest nonfiction novel, which details an account of the year following her husband's death.

World Bank President discusses economic crisis

In response to the global economic downfall, World Bank President Robert Zoellick advocates a "multidisciplinary approach" to solving the current problems. Last night, in a moderated discussion held by the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business, Zoellick outlined specific ways in which the World Bank aims to help developing countries during the crisis.

Feminizing the field of computer science

Do women and computers mix? Why are geeks usually seen as male? Last night, History and Sociology of Science professor Nathan Ensmenger posed these questions in a talk about women and computers at the Wu and Chen Auditorium in Levine Hall. The problem: a lack of women pursuing computer science degrees at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

'Will China run out of water?' Zheng asks

In an address to students yesterday, Chunmiao Zheng posed China's milion-dollar question - how do you supply 20 percent of the world's population with only 7 percent of the Earth's water resources? Yesterday afternoon at the Carolyn Hoff Lynch Auditorium, Zheng, professor of hydrogeology at the University of Alabama, explored the issue of China's mounting water scarcity in a talk entitled, "Will China Run Out of Water?" His final answer: Not likely for the country as a whole, he said, although he added that certain regions were more vulnerable to distress than others.

Film executive describes problem-solving

The Greater Philadelphia Film Office's "problem-solver" shared her experience with students interested in the entertainment business on Friday. The Fox Leadership prorram hosted Sharon Pinkenson, executive director of the Film Office, at Leadership Hall.

KWH hosts 'Philadelphia Inquirer' managing editor

An "energetic, dogged newsman" will speak at the Kelly Writers House today, according to Philadelphia Inquirer columnist and Penn artist-in-residence Dick Polman. These words describe Polman's longtime colleague and current Deputy Managing Editor for News and Multimedia at The Philadelphia Inquirer Vernon Loeb.