This Saturday, the 124th Board of Editors and Managers will be inaugurated at the DP's annual banquet.

Professor Modi has arrived on campus. For this semester only, Kalpen Modi - more popularly known as Kal Penn - is an adjunct professor in the Asian American Studies Department, teaching ASAM 109: Asian Americans in the Media.

Though law-school applications are down recently, for some groups of applicants, the decline has more constant. Minority enrollment has decreased in the past decade. First-year enrollments of African American and Mexican American students dropped from 3,937 in 1992 to 3,595 in 2005, according to a recent Columbia Law School study.

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Long lines, cold weather, dimpled chads and senior citizens. When contemplating voting, those are just a few terms that enter a student's mind. But increasingly, students are turning to absentee voting as a way to remain active back home.

Selling beer at campus sporting events would go a long way toward increasing school spirit and filling empty seats.

An unsatisfying relationship with your pre-major advisor is nothing a simple trip to the College Office can't solve.

After twenty years away from his alma mater, 1987 Penn graduate Eric Furda will be back this March - with a few more responsibilities than he had while he was here as a student.

In keeping with his initiative to reduce the crime rates in Philadelphia, Mayor Michael Nutter appointed Charles Ramsey as the city's new Police Commissioner. Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush says that she believes that "Commissioner Ramsey will be making a big difference in the Philadelphia Police Department and the City of Philadelphia.

If sophomore wrestler Rollie Peterkin feels he's experiencing some deja vu on Sunday when Penn visits Hofstra, don't blame him. He's already seen his opponent in action.

Thousands of Saint Joseph's basketball fans previously unable to get tickets to home games might have their best shot during the 2008-2009 season. As the Hawks' Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse undergoes a $35 million renovation and expansion, St. Joe's will play next season's home games at the Palestra.

Last Friday, members of the Service Employees International Union and their supporters gathered to protest a speech by David Rubenstein, co-founder of the private equity firm, the Carlyle Group. Rubenstein was a keynote speaker at Wharton's 14th annual private equity and venture capital conference.

If Greek architecture is a riddle, producers of PBS' NOVA series think one Penn professor might have cracked it. That's the reason, they say, for featuring Art History professor Lothar Haselberger as a primary expert in their "Secrets of the Parthenon" special, premiering Jan.

For South Africa, a net exporter of agricultural products, it may seem strange that the new year brought an import of squash. On Dec. 30, the Penn women's squash team boarded a plane and travelled 25 hours to Cape Town, South Africa. The NCAA allows squash teams to take one trip every four years, and coach Jack Wyant decided to take full advantage of the opportunity this year to give his team a cultural and athletic experience unlike any other.

5,151 is a big number. When translated into meals, it is enough to feed roughly half of the undergraduate class. It is also enough to feed an extra 5,151 hungry mouths.

The United Minorities Council elected College and Wharton junior Lisa Zhu, who is also a DP columnist, as its new chair at the Greenfield Intercultural Center yesterday evening. The DP met with Zhu after the election to talk about her plans for the council.

The appointment of Eric Furda as dean of admissions last week came faster than Penn President Amy Gutmann had predicted, and also marked a deviation from industry standards. From the search committee's first meeting in October to the announcement of Furda as the new dean last week, Penn's formal search process took just over three months, a pace experts say is fast but not unheard of.