On a bulletin board in the fencing room deep in the bowels of Hutchinson Gym, there is a recent clipping from a British newspaper declaring that “Fencing is the hippest sport on the planet.”

“The Constitution means today what it meant when it was written,” U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told an overflow crowd in Harrison Auditorium.

The headlines tell you everything you need to know about why Lauren Steinfeld’s (C’89) job as Penn’s first chief privacy officer is so important.

In Philadelphia, we live with history. Citizens protest the mayor’s decision to block off Independence Hall. The directional sign for I-76 from the airport reads “Valley Forge.” Ben Franklin (as impersonated by Ralph Archbold) turns up at every civic event from the annual Fourth of July festivities to an Eagles pep rally.

Judge Marjorie Rendell (CW’69) was on campus Feb. 4 to talk about leadership to a standing-room only crowd of College students who packed 3615 Locust Walk.

David Ferreira (C’04) is a star athlete in a game that gets no respect at Penn or anywhere else in the United States.

The University Trustees have approved the creation of a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree that will be Penn’s first university-wide professional degree program.

Kelly Writers House has announced that screenwriter Walter Bernstein, performance artist Laurie Anderson and critic-turned-novelist Susan Sontag will each spend several days on campus this spring as Writers House Fellows.

Budding chemists often get their start playing with their food—testing pH levels with liquefied cabbage, determining the density of Hostess Twinkies and replicating the classic experiment demonstrating the triboluminescence of wintergreen Life Savers. Professor of Chemistry Ponzy Lu has never forgotten his kitchen roots.

If you could compare suffering which do you think is worse—chronic lower back pain or chronic sinusitis? Surprisingly, the answer is sinusitis.