As the word spread that Stephen Lynch would be performing on campus this semester, many students raised questions regarding his "offensive" and "sensitive" jokes. SPEC announced yesterday that Lynch would be performing at their annual fall show on Oct. 17 at Irvine Auditorium.

The Microsoft empire struck back this week with a new advertising campaign. The company is out to prove that it's not as stodgy as Apple commercials make it out to be. The campaign's television advertisements have been generating a lot of interest, and most students think Microsoft's image is making a change for the better.

Penn is taking more than just basketball titles from Princeton University this year. Over the summer, Music professor Carolyn Abbate, one of the world's most prominent musicologists, has been appointed the Christopher H. Browne Distingui

uick, name an aspect of military policy that Obama and McCain agree on completely. It's not the war in Iraq or the best way to handle Iran. No, both candidates think Columbia University should bring back its ROTC program, as they both said earlier this month.

Amira Fawcett is an Engineering senior from Houston, Texas. Her e-mail address is fawcett@dailypennsylvanian.com.

The Undergraduate Assembly met as a full body for the first time last Sunday night as the newly elected freshmen moved from the audience to the inner circle. "I'm really excited about this year's freshman class," wrote UA chairman and Wharton and College senior Wilson Tong in an e-mail.

Five dollars was all she needed to make her point. During the Democratic primary, College sophomore Sarah Arkebauer clicked on an e-mail from Sen. Hillary Clinton. In the e-mail, Clinton asked for any donation to help counter a statement from Sen. Barack Obama comparing her to President George W.

How much should an illegally shared song cost? According to a recent federal jury decision, $9,250. Last October, a district court ordered Minnesota native Jammie Thomas to pay the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) $222,000 for illegally sharing 24 music tracks.

Amid the chaos and turmoil on Wall Street, business schools across the country, including Wharton, are doing all they can to reach out to their alumni and offer a helping hand. As major financial firms have collapsed over the past two weeks, Career Services sent e-mails to alumni letting them know of services available to them, Career Services counselors said.

Many of Penn's peer institutions eked out modest endowment growth for the past fiscal year, despite a rocky economic climate. Of peer institutions who have reported figures at this time, Penn's endowment is the only one to have shrunk, droppin

After finishing off a hard-fought 2-0 victory over Harvard at 9 p.m. on a rainy Saturday night, Natalie Capuano and her women's soccer teammates still had one obligation left to fulfill. As two local girls' soccer teams walked onto the field, the victorious Quakers were besieged with autograph requests.

Yale and Harvard's losses on Saturday - at Cornell and at Brown, respectively - weren't just notable because those squads were pegged as the Ivy League's top two teams heading into the season. It was also the first time since Nov. 11, 2006, that the Elis and Crimson lost Ancient Eight games on the same day.

With research becoming a vital part of the undergraduate experience at Penn, the Nursing school has devised a way to allow its student researchers to showcase their work through a research journal dedicated to them. The Journal of Nursing Student Research is a publication that compiles the research of students and gives them a platform to receive recognition for their work.

In addition to text messages and e-mail notifications, many colleges are now turning to siren-alert systems to make sure their whole campuses are aware during emergencies. A survey conducted by the Campus Computing Project in fall 2007 found that 17 percent of private research universities and 38 percent of public research universities in the United States had

Most college-bound high-school seniors are hesitant to fill out a more arduous application than necessary. But college admissions counselors and students alike agree that for seniors from low-income families, filling out a QuestBridge application is well worth the extra effort.

Listening to Lafayette coach Frank Tavani wax philosophical at Saturday's postgame press conference, you might have thought the ghosts of Lombardi and Rockne had lent a hand in his team's victory. "That ball is a funny shape, and it bounces funny ways," he said.

We recently published two articles about student government's collaboration with Penn's minority communities to improve undergraduate minority representation in major campus institutions. The Daily Pennsylvanian is an active supporter of and a participant in these efforts.