Although the University recently increased graduate students' stipends, other sources of funding they rely on may be shrinking. The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly Research Student Travel Grant helps defray the costs - including travel, hotel and participation fees - of students presenting their work at academic conferences.

'Give credit where credit is due," the saying goes. We hear it in a number of arenas but for college students, it usually comes to mind when working on a paper. A dishonest education system benefits no one. We place mutual trust in each other not to copy, cheat or lie.

It's been a season to forget for the Quakers, but at least some of their final memories at the Palestra will be positive. The Quakers' defense, porous against Yale on Friday, clamped down against Brown on Saturday. After losing 79-70 to the Bulldogs at the Palestra, the Quakers bounced back the next night and beat Brown 56-45.

Former President Bill Clinton, introduced by Penn President Amy Gutmann as an "extraordinary leader devoted to healing inequalities," gave the opening address for the Kerner Plus 40 Symposium to a packed Irvine Auditorium yesterday morning. Engineering freshman Aditya Kaji, like many others, waited in line for hours to get a pass for the speech, but he thought it was well worth the wait.

Five years after the United States invaded Iraq, America's justice system often finds itself struggling to cope with returning soldiers. Incidents such as the case of Joseph Cho, a former Penn Law student who is also a military veteran facing charges of attempted murder, have cast questions on the role of post-traumatic stress disorder in the legal process.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently awarded a $750,000 grant to be given over the next six years to the School of Arts and Science's initiative to encourage Cross-Cultural Contact scholarship, the study of what happens when different cultures collide and coalesce.

In the past few weeks, I have had the pleasure of hearing a wide array of feedback relating to the most recent issue of the Pennsylvania Punch Bowl Humor Magazine. As a member of Penn's large and diverse Asian American community and as an editor of Punch Bowl, however, I was concerned to hear that some people found the issue racist.

They're physical. They've got great guard play. And most importantly, they've emerged as the second-best team in the Ivy League this season. But you don't have to tell Glen Miller what Brown (15-3, 7-3 Ivy) does well. The former head man in Providence, R.

Anti-casino activists are hoping to score a royal flush with their latest campaign launched this week. On Wednesday, Casino-Free Philadelphia kicked off its campaign against construction of casinos in the city - called Operation Hidden Costs - with a visit to the Governor's office at Walnut and Broad streets.

The new substance-free residential program at Fisher Hassenfeld College House has entered its second semester with no reported violations. The program stipulates that residents will not use or be under the influence of drugs or alcohol while in the hall. Although only about half of the residents on floors where the program is in effect signed up for the program, students and supervisors report that the program has created a sense of community and mutual respect in those two halls.

College junior Sarah Kaminetsky resigned from the Undergraduate Assembly Monday night. "Due to other school-related and extracurricular commitments, I don't feel like I can devote 110 percent to the UA, and . there are other people who may be able to devote more time to the UA," said Kaminetsky, who is also a member of the Junior Class Board.

Ever since they began practicing in January, the young Quakers have been anxiously awaiting their first taste of collegiate softball. They were supposed to begin their season on Saturday, but forecasted inclement delayed their opener further. On Sunday, the Red and Blue finally took the field against Lafayette, but even then they had to wait 11 innings to find out the result of their first game.

The writers and editors of The Daily Pennsylvanian must often strike a difficult balance between getting the scoop on a breaking news story and taking the time to get the facts right. On Tuesday, IvyGate, the "Ivy League blog," received a tip - seemingly sent from SPEC - claiming that Limp Bizkit was chosen to headline this year's Spring Fling Concert.

President Bush's budget for the 2009 fiscal year shows an increased push from the government to encourage foreign-language study for national-security purposes. But it seems unlikely that the increased funding will persuade students learning those languages to pursue careers in the government.

On Sunday, the Undergraduate Assembly urged the University to examine whether the presence of on-campus blood collectors who are bound by an FDA policy banning certain blood donors violates Penn's non-discrimination policy. Despite a national blood shortage, millions are prohibited from donating by the Federal Drug Administration's lifetime ban on men who have had sex with men (MSM) since 1977.

Penn swim coach Mike Schnur wants his women to swim "as if their hair is on fire." While Harvard and Princeton are expected to finish first and second at the Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships, running today through Saturday, the rest of the slots are all very much up for grabs.

Fire has a dual nature for Christina Khosravi. Internally, it has driven her to three seasons of near-perfect softball. The seasoned veteran and senior captain was crowned 2006 Ivy League Player of the Year and has not missed one varsity game. Outside, however, fire has proven to be much more serious than a game.