To solve the city's most serious ills, City Hall needs to do a better job of reaching out more to private entities like Penn.

It started at the Dean Dome and moved its way up to the Palestra. Now, the Adam Franklin show is ready to hit the road again. Destination? Madison Square Garden. No, he's not starring for Ringling Brothers or the WWE, though his new employer is often confused with the two.

Harrison College House experienced the longest elevator shutdown in its history, from 10 p.m. last night until 8 a.m. today. The elevator held a large group that included 1996 alumnus Peter Cooperman - who has pledged $50,000 to investigate repairing the high-rise elevators if 5,000 students join his Facebook.

As the lethal injection coursed through Barbaro's body at Penn's New Bolton Center, just about everyone had given up on the thoroughbred phenomenon. Everyone, that is, except his jockey, Edgar Prado.

Some old-school Philly flavor will be added to the Penn Relays this year. Ex-76er and former NBA star Charles Barkley will compete in a 100-meter dash against 69-year-old Philadelphia native and comedian William H. Cosby, Jr., Ed. D., better known as Bill Cosby.

Former Penn closer Doug Brown may have found the secret to revive his pitching career. And believers in baseball's new mystical pitch may have to look no further than Meiklejohn Stadium. Brown has learned how to throw a "gyroball," a pitch allegedly invented by an Asian physicist and thrown by new Red Sox starter Daisuke Matsuzaka.

Don't sue - this is what happens when a group of editors are cooped up in the same, windowless office every single night.

Jesus Christ, move over - there's a new religion in town. Barbaro, the recently euthanized Kentucky Derby winner that captured the hearts of an entire nation of middle-aged women, is still captivating avid followers from beyond the grave.

Irina Malinovskaya, the Wharton undergraduate currently awaiting a third trial for murder, has been put on academic release and will continue her studies at Penn.

Hot in herre To the Editor: Before the holidays, I noticed that the Douglas cosmetics store on Walnut Street had their doors flung open during business hours. Perhaps this was a clever marketing technique. And the warm weather we experienced made it seem frivolous but not too wasteful.

Come Friday, Spring Fling concertgoers will get the chance to "Fight the Power" with one of hip hop's seminal groups. SPEC Concerts announced last night that Public Enemy, the politically charged rap group founded by Flavor Flav and Chuck D, will be co-headlining with Ben Folds at this years Fling Concert.

Having already come clean about Penn's relationship with Citibank, one University VIP continues on his honesty kick.

Drew Gilpin Faust is set to take the reigns as Harvard University's 28th president this summer, but whether she will also become the institution's first female president is now less certain. In confidential documents obtained by The Daily Pennsylvanian, several members of Harvard's Board of Overseers called Faust's gender into question.

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Looks like it's out with the old - and out with the Nu. After a few incidents at a Sigma Nu-sponsored party this weekend at Club 27 downtown, the IFC announced on Monday that it would be suspending the fraternity's charter indefinitely and that they would lose their house at 38th and Walnut streets at the end of the semester.

In the wake of strong pressure from disgruntled students and alumni, University officials have revoked their invitation to former Secretary of State James Baker to speak at this year's Commencement.

Penn's Division of Public Safety will no longer release any information regarding crimes that occur in the Penn Police patrol zone, DPS officials announced yesterday. The move will make it impossible for anyone outside DPS to know when crimes are committed or track trends and statistics concerning area crime.