New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, who is trying to win the Democratic presidential nomination, focused on crime as she campaigned in West Philadelphia last week. At the YMCA located at 51st and Chestnut streets on Friday, Clinton announced a $4-billion-a-year anticrime initiative that she said is aimed at halving the murder rate in large cities.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton looked somber following her speech at the AFL-CIO convention last week. "We need to do something so that our party and our people can make the right decision," she said. The reporters in the room looked around eagerly and uncomfortably, wondering where this speech was leading.

Even the pouring rain couldn't dampen spirits at the Spring Fling concert Friday night. Hosted by the concerts and SPEC-TRUM subcommittees of the Social Planning and Events Committee, the concert featured rock group OK Go and indie hip-hop band Gym Class Heroes along with rapper Ludacris, who headlined the show.

Penn asked why, and the Social Planning and Events Committee answered - with fried Oreos, a cappella performances, human bowling and two days of full-out partying. Penn's annual Spring Fling weekend took place this past Friday and Saturday in the Quad and on College Green.

When Gym Class Heroes drummer Matt McGinley was in the ninth grade, he was in a band that had no singer. And then he met Travis McCoy, now the lead singer of Gym Class Heroes. Still, McGinley's band needed a singer, and McCoy took on that role. He was "into poetry," McGinley said in a post-concert interview.

Penn has emerged unscathed from the latest round of e-mail scams targeting college servers. The fake e-mails, known as phish, have recently changed their tactics to target colleges, according to Douglas Pearson, technical director of an information-sharing and analysis center at Indiana University at Bloomington.

The Recording Industry Association of America has hit a roadblock in its efforts to prosecute four students at Boston University for copyright infringement. Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner forbade Boston University - which had been subpoenaed by the RIAA - from providing the names of students to the organization until she further investigates the school's privacy policy.

Everywhere Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) goes, students seem to follow. In all but three states this year, Obama has won the youth vote and dramatically increased young-voter registration and turn out at the polls. But with the Democratic race unlikely to end soon, many are wondering what will happen with young voters in the fall, particularly if Sen.

Tonight at midnight, "hooligans and whores" will mingle with students. Reefer Madness, Quadramics' 35th annual Spring Fling musical, opened last night at the Iron Gate Theater. For the fourth year, the show will be performed tonight at midnight immediately following the Fling concert on Franklin Field.

A generous-paying job offer can mark a happy finale to a Penn education, but at the Engineering school, making sure students are ready can be a difficult task. With zealous recruiters, job-hungry students and a field changing faster than ever before, SEAS administrators and professors are now questioning how much weight to put on career-training in the school, one whose curriculum has long been rooted in teaching students fundamentals.

The Trustees' Council of Penn Women presented their highest tribute, the TCPW Beacon Award, to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor yesterday in a presentation for alumni and students in Huntsman Hall Auditorium. O'Connor, who served as the first female member of the United States Supreme Court from 1981 to 2005, is the ninth recipient of the TCPW Beacon Award.

While Spring Fling might mean a break for Penn students, it means extra work for Penn Police. The Division of Public Safety plans to increase the number of officers on patrol this weekend because of the increase in guests for Fling, Capt. Gerald Leddy, special events coordinator at DPS, said.

Rachit Shukla wanted to prove he could start a functioning company in 24 hours. So, he did it. Last week, Shukla, who graduated from Wharton in December, launched the humor T-shirt site StartupWear.com overnight, "just for fun," he said. At Penn, Shukla is not alone in joining the Internet start-up culture.

After much delay, the South Street Bridge Replacement Project finally appears poised to begin - but community members are still trying to assert their views about the project. Community members have been critical of the design put forth by the city, and last month the South Street Bridge Coalition commissioned urban planning firm Wallace Roberts & Todd L.

Despite the heavy chance of rain over Spring Fling weekend, the show will go on, according to SPEC. "It's going to go on rain or shine," said College sophomore and Fling co-chairwoman Dasha Barannik who is running the operations for the weekend festivities.

It's finally that time of year again - time to celebrate the largest college party on the East Coast. Since 1973, Spring Fling has been the ultimate student event at Penn. The weekend festivities began as a final stress-reliever before students headed to exams.

Twelve graduate students were chosen to represent more than 11,000 of their peers Wednesday night when the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly elected its 2008-2009 Executive Board. The Board will be led by School of Medicine student Andrew Rennekamp.