After perennial student demands for a more diverse yet mainstream Spring Fling lineup, this year's show will feature rapper Ludacris, indie hip-hop band Gym Class Heroes and a rock act that will be announced within the next two weeks. Social Planning and Events Committee President and College senior Max Cancre said the bill reflects students' desire for variation - and response has been overwhelmingly positive thus far.

After requesting information regarding finances and endowment spending from 136 colleges and universities, the Senate Finance Committee is currently reviewing the information it has received before deciding which step to take next. The Finance Committee, led by Sens.

This year's men's golf team has an opportunity to do something that it has only had a chance to do once before: defend the Ivy League title. But the 2008 Quakers squad will have to find its own way to win because only two of the five starters from last year's championship lineup return.

The art of wine tasting is something many Penn students may be eager to participate in, but when funding for such an expensive activity comes from students' own tuitions - that's where the debate kicks in. The Wine Tasting Preceptorial has been at the heart of an ongoing debate about the annual funding it receives from the Undergraduate Assembly.

If Marissa Rosen keeps this up for two more years, she will earn her place in Quakers history as one of Penn best gymnasts. As a freshman, Rosen won an Ivy Classic individual title on the beam, a performance she followed this year by claiming an individual title on the vault.

When I met Bob Bark outside of Fresh Grocer last week, I thought I'd be writing a simple pro-union column. Bark had handed me a flyer that announced: "Newsflash! Campus Apartments has decided to hire an electrical contractor who does not pay what the government says is a fair wage.

Thanks to a policy change by the Philadelphia School District, every school volunteer will have to undergo three background checks costing a total of $70. And that may put the West Philadelphia Tutoring Project - run by Civic House, Penn's community service center - in jeopardy.

Alicia Puglionesi is a College junior from Havertown, Pa. Her e-mail address is puglionesi@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Too much sun is bad for you anyway, right? After an uneven 10-day, seven-game swing in Boca Raton, Fla., the Penn baseball team is heading north of Philadelphia - to Ambler, Pa. - for its first showdown back in the northeast. There, the Quakers (3-5) will meet Temple (7-7) at the Owls' Skip Wilson Field this afternoon.

One of Penn's winningest teams, No. 6 women's lacrosse, will finally play its first game in front of a home crowd, as the squad suits up at Franklin Field tonight against its intrastate rival, No. 19 Penn State. The Quakers (4-1, 1-0 Ivy) will have their work cut out for them against the Nittany Lions (2-3), whose losing record is misleading.

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

Sunday marked the end of a season for Penn fencing and the end of an accomplished career for men's captain Ron Berkowsky. In front of a hometown crowd, Ohio State's Andras Horanyi permanently dashed Berkowsky's hopes of a national championship for the second year in a row.

A Dental student was held captive in his apartment by armed robbers for about 12 hours over spring break. The student was walking out of his apartment, located at 4311 Spruce St., on March 9 at about 11:30 p.m. when he was confronted by a white male and a black male.

Led by senior runner Jesse Carlin, four Penn women entered the history books when they were named All-Americans at the NCAA Spring Indoor Track & Field Championships this past weekend. Carlin advanced to the 800m finals at the University of Arkansas track on Sunday, finishing with a season-best time of 2:06:48.

Coach Glen Miller said that, at Penn, "it's first place or last place." But with two straight wins to close the season, the Quakers at least avoided their first losing Ivy campaign in 17 years. After losing a heartbreaker to Cornell, Penn defeated both Columbia and Princeton to finish with an 8-6 league record, good enough to stand alone in third place.

When it comes to making plans on how to improve Philadelphia, architects and city planners from Penn say civic engagement is critical. Penn Praxis, the consulting branch of Penn's School of Design, is working in conjunction with the Penn Project for Civic Engagement to generate a series of plans to renovate the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, located on South Broad Street.

Former Marketing professor Scott Ward was indicted last Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on one count of making false statements to the State Department and two counts of transporting and shipping child pornography.