Giant puppets and a herd of elementary-school students may not seem like the most obvious path for social activism, but a local nonprofit organization is giving it a try anyway. The Spiral Q Puppet Theater, which uses puppets, street theater, parades, and pageants to promote community unity and social activism, will be putting on the first of its three spring parades today.

Familiar Philly face to join Miller's bench Glen Miller has found himself a new right-hand man. Philadelphia native and Saint Joseph's alum John Gallagher will join the Penn basketball program as an assistant coach, according to the Philadelphia Daily News.

Jennifer Lesser is a College sophomore from Minneapolis, MN. Her e-mail address is lesser@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Now that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has won the Pennsylvania primary by a 10-point margin, the race shifts to the remaining states - with, it seems, no clear end in sight. Clinton's win was a crucial victory that, for the time being, keeps her candidacy alive and validates her argument to superdelegates that she can win in swing states.

Legislation recently introduced in Congress would require private universities to recognize teaching and research assistants as a union if they elect to form one. That's big news for Graduate Employees Together - University of Pennsylvania, the graduate student group that wants to be recognized as a union by Penn.

As the sunny month of May approaches, Penn students begin to dread the darker side of spring: finals and move-out. This year, as in years past, the official move-out deadline falls at 12 p.m. on the day after the last scheduled final. And this year, as in years past, students will scramble to study as they pack with one hand and type papers with the other.

Christina Khosravi is no stranger to walk-off wins. She did, after all, cap an extra-inning affair with a game-ending knock on April 2 against La Salle. Yesterday, however, Khosravi's mere presence earned Penn a last-inning win. With freshman Alisha Prystowsky on second and no outs in a 3-3 game, Drexel pitcher Ellen Boundy opted to intentionally walk the Quakers' slugging shortstop.

Adrian Thomas doesn't have a particular affinity for stealing bases. In fact, there are six Penn players who have swiped more bags than the team's newly anointed leadoff man. But the left fielder knows how to make his presence felt on the bases. Thomas' savvy baserunning helped the Quakers to a 6-2 victory against Lehigh (20-26, 4-12 Patriot) yesterday to salvage a split in the doubleheader.

The Hey Day T-shirt design was announced last night on the Web site of Penn's junior class. The shirt, which was designed by Engineering junior Chloe LeGendre, will feature a picture of a Monopoly board with the words "Hey Day 2008 Class of 2009: Our Turn to Play.

Sipping water out of that Nalgene bottle might not be so good for you. Numerous studies, including one at the University of Cincinnati earlier this year, show that traces of the toxic substance bisphenol-A, commonly called BPA, are released from Nalgene bottles' "unbreakable" plastic.

Some Penn students take classes in Fisher-Bennett Hall or David Rittenhouse Labs. Others head to Philadelphia public schools or community centers to participate in Academically Based Community Service Courses that teach "problem-solving learning." At yesterday's fifth-annual ABCS Summit, students, faculty and administrators gathered in Logan Hall to discuss the future of ABCS courses at Penn and possibilities for integrating them further into the curriculum.

While a quarterback's pads won't make his throws more accurate and a point guard's shorts won't improve his jump shot, a swimmer's suit can make the difference in a race. Over the last decade, Speedo has developed a new line of suits that improve performance, culminating in the February release of the LZR Racer.

Are you reading this in a class that was so full on the first day you couldn't get a seat, but now it's as empty as your brain watching a Rock of Love Marathon? All those empty seats - I know you're thinking the same thing I am - who added all those extra chairs? Apparently, no one did.

As universities across the country continue to introduce campus-wide Internet access, the University of Chicago Law School is doing the exact opposite. The school recently announced plans to eliminate Internet access in most of its classrooms, but Penn has no plans to implement similar policies.

The styrofoam hats and wooden canes are back - but not on the usual Friday afternoon. Next Tuesday, the class of 2009 will officially make its passage into seniordom as part of the 93-year-old tradition of Hey Day. Hey Day is traditionally held on the last day of classes, a Friday.

To many schools with less-than-rigorous threat assessment systems, the past year's spate of school shootings have been a wake-up call. Over the past year, many universities around the country have responded to shootings at Virginia Tech and other colleges by forming new groups to monitor students who display troubled behavior and assess whether they pose a wider threat to the community.

The Undergraduate Assembly elected its new executive board for the 2008-2009 school year last night after a six-hour meeting that was open to the public. College and Wharton junior Wilson Tong will lead the UA as the body's new chairman. Tong, the current vice chairman for external affairs, is also the first Asian-American chairman in the UA's history.