When I was a young boy, growing up at 55th and Larchwood Avenue, I remember Saturday morning clean-ups on my block during the spring and summer. We would spend a few hours outside, washing the stoop, sweeping the walk and picking up trash. Perhaps most importantly, we talked to each other and shared stories from our week.

With the coming of spring break began the part of my life you could call my life on the road. The afternoon of March 8, 2008 found two college sophomores in Penn T-shirts and bulging backpacks standing by the side of I-495 south of Washington D.C., their thumbs turned skyward in the sun-warmed air.

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton's remarks on the housing crisis, given in the Hall of Flags in Houston Hall, as provided by her campaign.

Since the Penn baseball team returned from its spring-break trip, a few people have risen to the occasion and given the Quakers a leg up on the competition - the Meiklejohn Stadium grounds crew. Today's Liberty Bell Classic opener against Lafayette was supposed to be on the Leopards' home field in Easton, Pa.

As her voice carries across the packed living room of the Kelly Writers House yesterday, reciting passages from her Best Literary Fiction Award-winning 2005 novel, The Writing on the Wall, it was clear to audience members that Lynne Sharon Schwartz's voice was made to read.

Tuition and fees are set to increase by 4.5 percent next year - the smallest annual increase Penn has seen in the last seven years - bringing the price of an undergraduate academic year to $37,526. According to a March 18 press release, University trustees met last week to determine the tuition increase for the coming academic year.

Yesterday at Sayre High School in West Philadelphia, a businessman sat dead at a desk, surrounded by pills and alcohol. But no one called the police - the whole scene was staged by Penn students for high schoolers learning about forensic science. In CSI and Science in High School, an academically based community service course at Penn, students teach chemistry and forensic science to high-school juniors.

Penn researchers have discovered that sleep apnea - a disorder characterized by periodic lapses in breathing while asleep, usually due to an obstructed airway - results in probably irreversible muscle weakness, which can make the condition even worse. The findings are a "major breakthrough," according to Jerry Siegel, a professor at UCLA's Center for Sleep Research.

College senior Abby Huntsman says her father, Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, "laughs off" questions about a possible vice presidential bid. But Huntsman - who is also a Penn alumnus and trustee - is often mentioned by the media and political pundits as a potential choice to be Arizona Sen.

The 2008 Penn softball team might be enjoying the best start in program history, but the real test of greatness is yet to come. Two losses and expectations of a tight Ivy League season will follow the Quakers to Bethlehem, Pa. for their scheduled doubleheader against Lehigh this afternoon.

Andrea Kremer has reached nearly every pinnacle of sports broadcast journalism. In 17 years at ESPN, she was a correspondent for Sportscenter, NFL Countdown and Outside the Lines, working every Super Bowl since 1985 The two-time Emmy award winner left the ESPN in 2006 to become a sideline reporter for NBC's Sunday Night Football.

For most Penn students, spending 15 minutes to get to and from class is pushing it. But last semester, Swarthmore junior Sven David Udekwu measured his commute in hours, not minutes. Waking up at about 9 a.m., catching a 9:10 bus to Penn and arriving almost half an hour before his 10 a.

With an individual record of 8-16, an overall finish of 34th and zero All-Americans at this year's NCAA Championships, it might seem that the Penn Wrestling team is in a bit of a rut. And looking at the numbers, it's true that this year's tournament was disappointing, especially after two straight years with a national champion.

ST. LOUIS - Coming into this year's NCAA championships, the Penn wrestling program had a streak of at least one All-American in 11 straight years. That streak is now over. In a tournament that coach Zeke Jones called "tough," the Quakers had subpar results at this year's three-day Championship at the Scottrade Center in downtown St.

As lucky students across campus are finalizing their summer internship plans, seven undergraduates who thought they were done may not be so lucky. With JPMorgan Chase's recent purchase of investment house Bear Stearns, graduates and undergraduates who were set up with Bear Stearns jobs and internships - like these seven - say they are worried that their plans may fall through because of the change.

Dealing with harassment comes naturally to Penn students. Everyday, Locust Walk is a minefield of students peddling their different clubs and activities. But leading up to today's voter-registration deadline, efforts to encourage students to register has become a noticeably intense addition.

Every day in training on the Schuylkill River, the women's rowing team passes its Saint Joseph's counterpart, quietly sizing it up. "We're trying to start a rivalry," Penn coach Mike Lane said. "They're great competitors." Last Friday, the Quakers hit the two-kilometer course on the Schuylkill and showed Saint Joseph's what they were made of.