Universities around the country have long struggled with how to best meet the needs of minority groups. Case in point: the controversy over single-sex exercise facilities. While some religious groups have requested such spaces, Harvard's policy of shutting off an entire gym for female-only exercise is both unnecessary and unreasonable.

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

Security has been increased around the Law School over the past several days in response to a student who has exhibited signs of unstable behavior.

With spring break fast approaching, students are already starting to think about their courses for next fall. At least a dozen institutions across the country are mandating that one of those courses be an internship at some point in the college career. While some departments at Penn build work experience into curriculum requirements - such as the work component of the Urban Studies major and clinical rotations for nursing students - Dean of the College Dennis DeTurck said the College has no plans to impose a general mandate.

Today's primaries in Ohio and Texas could very well determine the fate of New York Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign - and the importance of Pennsylvania's April 22 primary.

Four thousand dollars per minute, or a total of $1.72 million over the course of seven hours- that's how much money the Undergraduate Assembly allocated to various student-government groups at its annual budget meeting this past Sunday evening. An increase of 6 percent from last year's budget, the $1.

Hospital patients who experience cardiac arrests are more likely to die during nights and weekends compared with the daytime, according to a recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. This report raises questions about the differences between the care received in emergency rooms during regular working hours and the graveyard shifts.

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

A woman was robbed on the 4000 block of Locust Street at about 9:40 p.m. on Thursday, according to Lt. John Walker of the Philadelphia Police.

Kym Rohn-Taylor never knew if she would have the chance to board an airplane. The Franklin Field security guard has an aversion to flying, and last year she underwent breast-cancer surgery. But now she's back at work, and later this week she'll be up in the sky, off to California.

When the Penn softball team travels to Delaware for a doubleheader tomorrow, coach Leslie King will be banking on none of her players getting hurt. No coach wants injuries, but the Quakers are in a particularly precarious situation. At full strength, King's squad consists of 14 players.

Fall course selection is coming soon, and that means it's time to sign back on to Penn InTouch. But don't complain just yet - a new course-search and schedule-planning tool will be launched on PennPortal and Penn InTouch on March 17. The tool - which will allow students to search for courses and plan mock schedules - will be available for use in preparation for the fall 2008 class term, which students can begin registering for on March 24.

Yale University is home to the oldest college art gallery in the United States, with over 185,000 pieces from all over the world, ancient and modern alike. But until recently, it didn't receive much foot traffic. As the Deputy Director for Programs and External Affairs and Curator of Artist Initiatives and Special Projects at the Yale Art Gallery, Anna Hammond is largely responsible for increasing the collection's visibility among students.

Michael Jordan wore his North Carolina shorts under his Chicago Bulls uniform. Wade Boggs ate the same kind of chicken before every game. Patrick Roy talked to his goalposts because they were his "friends." And then there's Quakers lacrosse midfielder Ali DeLuca.

Basketball is just a game for most, a hobby for some and a job for others. But for Penn's Anca Popovici and Drexel's Gabriela Marginean, basketball offered something more. It was a plane ticket to the U.S., a way to continue their educations and to represent their country.

After the online newspaper Inside HigherEd reported in January that Wharton MBA Admissions officer Judith Hodara was consulting for a Japanese admissions firm and also owned a consulting business catering to high-school students, observers and members of the higher-education community quickly labeled the activities as a conflict of interest.