Greg Johnson

Basketball highflyers and sharpshooters can show off their “mad hops” and range at Penn Rec’s Second Annual Slam Dunk Contest and 3-Point Shootout.

“Are you interviewing me?” Ezekiel “Zeke” Emanuel bellows in his broad Chicago accent from the doorway of his office in College Hall.

Let’s go Qua-kers! Boom, boom, boom-boom-boom! Let’s go Qua-kers! Boom, boom, boom-boom-boom! Penn faculty and staff can purchase tickets at the discounted price of $7 for each of the men’s basketball team’s remaining home games.

Sporting bright blue shoes on his oversized feet, He’s always on hand for a meet and greet,A hat that says “Penn,” and a red and blue vest,“P” for Pennsylvania sits proudly upon his chest,With an ever-present smile and baby blue eyes,He leads the crowd in roars and cries,

While a student at Penn in the mid-1980s, Rodney Robinson missed his Hey Day—the nearly century-old tradition that celebrates the junior class moving up to become seniors—because of an Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity engagement.

Prison beds are expensive. Housing an inmate in a high-security facility can cost more than a year of tuition at Penn.

By 1916, the U.S. federal government had spent more than $5 billion on Civil War pensions, more than the cost of the entire four-year war.

With a total regular workforce of more than 16,300 faculty and staff, and nearly 16,000 more in the Health System, Penn is a small city that requires an army of dedicated employees to keep the institution running smoothly.