To fully appreciate Baker's speech, graduating seniors have a responsibility to research the facts and tune out the spin.

Another fencing season is drawing to a close. For Michael Galligan, it will be his final one at Penn. Although the team's qualifiers were having fun and joking during the car ride over to Madison, N.J., to participate in the four-day NCAA Championships starting today, the Quakers still had mixed emotions about the seniors' final hurrah.

Key points from the Undergraduate Assembly's meeting on Monday night: n The UA passed a proposal to work with Housing and Conference Services and Facilities and Real Estate Services to implement a number of short-term renovations to all college houses excluding the Quadrangle and the three high rises.

According to a study released by the Lumina Foundation for Education, your dream job could be in danger of being outsourced. The foundation's Making Opportunity Affordable: Reinvesting in College Access and Success initiative released a report earlier this month entitled "Hitting Home" that suggests that the United States is falling behind other countries in the amount of degrees that are being produced within its borders - a troubling trend for Americans as globalization continues to spread.

The campus Papa John's Pizza, located at 104 S. 40th St, was robbed at gunpoint early Monday morning, Philadelphia and Penn Police officials said. A male Papa John's employee, 22 and unaffiliated with the University, reported that two males entered the establishment through the side door at about 12:50 a.

Doing well on Advanced Placement tests is paying off - literally. The Advanced Placement Training and Incentive Programs is rewarding students at participating high schools with $250 for receiving a three or higher on AP exams in math, science and English.

Have members of a generation taught to believe that anything is possible turned into narcissistic egomaniacs? According to a recently published report, maybe. The study, initiated by a professor at San Diego State University, analyzed surveys taken by 16,000 college students over the last 25 years and found that key indicators of narcissistic personalty have increased slowly but significantly.

"Who do you want?" "Dhani!" "When do you want him?" "Now!" With this chant, Nursing professor Christopher Coleman riled up a large Fagin Hall crowd yesterday as audience members eagerly awaited the arrival of the Philadelphia Eagles linebacker. Looking classy in his signature bow-tie, Jones spoke passionately about men's health and fitness and how the perception in the U.

It's been like a deal with the devil gone wrong. When the Penn pitching staff traded in its double-digit ERAs of the Florida trip for sterling sub-2.00 marks back in the Northeast, all of a sudden it found the run support missing. Now if only they could put the two phases of the game together.

As the losses continued to pile up, confidence somehow never wavered for the Penn men's tennis team, though lately it has not translated to positive results on the court. Perhaps all it needed was some home cooking, when its confidence off the court finally turned into a dominating performance.

Sponsored by some To the Editor: I am a member of the Political Science faculty. I have also been a tenured member of the Penn faculty for something like thirty years. In all the time that I have been at Penn, this is, in fact, the first time that I have ever found that academic standards and values have been so seriously violated in connection with a singularly academic matter.

Joe Scott was escorted to his new job by an eye-catching cheerleader with CBS's NCAA Tournament theme song blasting in the background. He may have thought he was dreaming, but he wasn't. And there was plenty more where that came from at Denver's Magness Arena yesterday, where Scott was introduced as Denver's new basketball coach.

National and state regulations on stem cell research are forcing ground-breaking research to take place elsewhere.

Lakshmi Mittal will deliver the keynote address at the Wharton School's MBA Commencement on May 13, Wharton officials announced yesterday. Mittal is the president and CEO of Arcelor Mittal, the world's largest steel company. Mittal is a former member of the Wharton Board of Overseers - an advisory group predominantly composed of Wharton alumni - and many of his relatives, including his daughter-in-law, niece and nephew graduated from the School.

The Ivy League title clincher and the first round of the NCAA Tournament aren't supposed to feel like preseason tryouts. For Brennan Votel and Justin Reilly, they may have been just that. We sit eight months away from the Penn basketball team's first rebuilding effort in four years.

10 Million unsold flu vaccine doses that will be destroyed on June 3; 110 million were produced this year. Source: The Associated Press

So the Athletic Department fired offensive coordinator Shawn Halloran after just one year at the position, and hired former Alabama-Birmingham tight ends and running backs coach Bill Schmitz to fill the vacancy.