The sounds, speed and adrenaline of racing could sum up the atmosphere in Levine Hall on Tuesday when Penn's Formula SAE team unveiled its car for this year's competition. Formula SAE is an annual competition between colleges and universities worldwide. Teams have approximately one year to build a car and then compete with other teams on the race day.

The Princeton Review has decided to void a number of responses from Penn for the company's annual guidebook due to worries about perceived bias. The company made the decision after The Daily Pennsylvanian reported that the Admissions office did not seek a random sample of students to respond to the survey, despite a request to do so from the Princeton Review, said Robert Franek, the author of the Princeton Review's Best 366 Colleges.

With only weeks left until the end of the academic year, JPMorgan Chase, the investment firm that acquired Bear Stearns last month, has started rescinding offers made last fall for summer internships and full-time positions. But the investment firm is not leaving students completely empty-handed.

On Monday, a judge sealed documents that reveal the identity of the person whose lungs Tony Grier received during a transplant at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania two years ago. The lungs were cancerous and eventually killed Grier. His mother, Emma Grier, is now suing HUP.

When Graduate School of Education professor John Fantuzzo and his wife moved to their new home six years ago, they had to adjust a bit to their new neighbors: the more than 1,500 students living in the Quadrangle. "At first we felt we were on a different planet," he said.

Saxophone musicians today still try to emulate one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time - John Coltrane. Yesterday at Kelly Writers House, jazz critic and Philadelphia native Francis Davis discussed Coltrane's life and music in a review of his upcoming book, Sheets of Sound.

A plea deal is likely in the works for former Marketing professor Scott Ward, who is facing child-pornography charges. Ward, 65, is awaiting arraignment on two counts of transporting child pornography and one count of giving a false statement to a governmental agency.

Next week, Penn will have the opportunity to witness the "Colbert bump, " as the popular Comedy Central show, The Colbert Report, will film at the Annenberg Center for Performing Arts next Monday through Thursday nights. In a telephone interview with the show's host, Stephen Colbert, the Daily Pennsylvanian had the chance to ask Colbert about his views on filming at Penn, his job and the Pennsylvania primary.

Classical Studies professor Ralph Rosen has been appointed the new Associate Dean for Graduate Studies in the School of Arts and Sciences. Rosen, who has been at Penn for the past 25 years, will be responsible for overseeing the School's doctoral programs, which enroll approximately 2,000 students.

Steven Pinker has a way with words. Named one of Time's 100 most influential people in 2004, the best-selling Harvard psychology professor spoke in Irvine Auditorium yesterday on his new book, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature. His presentation was part of the 2008 Levin Family Dean's Forum, an annual celebration of the arts and sciences featuring leading intellectual figures.

If you want women to get along, just add chocolate to the mix. Yesterday, the Women's Center opened its doors to Panhellenic and Multicultural Greek women all over campus with an inaugural open house. "The purpose of [the open house] is to get the sorority houses involved and aware of the services that the Women's Center offers," said Engineering junior and Executive Vice President of the Panhellenic Council Elizabeth Rosenblatt.

As Penn nears the closing stages of negotiating a partnership with a nearby public high school, education experts are debating the merits of such relationships. Penn officials say they hope to gain approval for a partnership with University City High School later this month or in early May, and have the partnership functioning by the start of the 2009-2010 school year.

South Street Bridge is falling down . Falling down. Falling down. South Street Bridge is falling down. My. Fair. Lady. A rapid deterioration of the already falling apart bridge has caused the structure to crumble into the Schuylkill River. "How come every time you come around my South Street, South Street Bridge wanna go down?" asked Facilities spokesman Tony Sorrentino.

Students across campus have reported a number of abuses of the Division of Public Safety's new text alert system. DPS, students say, has been sending text messages that get a little bit too personal, probing students about their weekend plans and using the letter "u" in place of the actual word.

Part of the plan for the postal lands will include a prison to house members of the Penn community convicted of crimes, administration officials said Tuesday. "With the increasing number of Penn students and faculty running afoul of the law, local facilities just can't handle the burden," said University spokesman Tony Sorrentino.

Even before the aftermath of the collapse of Bear Stearns has subsided, the credit crisis has found a fresh victim on Penn’s campus: the Student Federal Credit Union. SFCU – an entirely student-run bank – is facing imminent bankruptcy due to heavy losses.

Penn President Amy Gutmann announced yesterday that she will pose for the inaugural issue of the Penn version of Diamond magazine, the controversial Harvard-based erotica publication. The magazine, which is expected to hit campus next fall, will showcase Penn males and females posing semi-nude.