One of Penn's most popular student organizations may be in jeopardy following the School District of Philadelphia's proposed implementation of stricter volunteer policies. The West Philadelphia Tutoring Project partners with local schools to provide one-on-one tutoring and mentoring opportunities with over 300 Penn students.

Philadelphia natives today have experienced their fair share of pride and pain - with regard to their city and their baseball team. Yesterday, author Mitchell Nathanson shared his ideas about the baseball team in front of a small crowd at the Penn Bookstore.

2:00pm - March 12th, 2008 Hillary Clinton kicked off six weeks of political attention for Philadelphia with a rally yesterday evening at Temple University. Before a cheering crowd of 3,000 to 4,000 supporters Hillary delivered a campaign speech that was decidedly short on mentions of her chief rival, Barack Obama, but big on populist promises to help the working class.

The Penn Environmental Group had extra special plans for the last night before spring break. Environmental activists Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger presented a lecture on new ways of approaching the issue of global warming last night in Huntsman Hall.

Former Wharton professor Scott Ward, currently serving a federal prison sentence for child pornography, is facing new charges for allegedly transporting and shipping child pornography and lying to authorities. Ward, 56, allegedly shipped images of himself engaged in sexual activity with a 16-year-old boy, according to an indictment filed today by U.S. Attorney Pat Meehan.

For years, scientists have been devising ways to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy - the most common and serious form of the disease - without actually replacing the mutated gene that causes it. That approach may soon pay off, as researchers start testing the most promising of such techniques.

It's the biggest concert of the biggest party of the year at Penn - and Ludacris and Gym Class Heroes will headline it. The Social Planning and Events Committee announced Monday that the rapper and indie hip-hop band will take the stage at this year's Spring Fling concert at 8 p.m.

While some students complain that the administration may be hard to reach, on Friday afternoon Penn officials did all they could to get in touch with every individual on campus. The Division of Public Safety conducted its first University-wide test of the UPennAlert emergency-notification system, which is meant to reach students, faculty and staff through text messages, e-mails and cell-phone calls in the case of emergency situations.

The Faculty Senate Executive Committee decided yesterday not to recommend a policy requiring prospective faculty members to disclose previous criminal convictions. The committee also said it does not support a self-disclosure policy elsewhere in the University, according to a statement.

College sophomore Lisa Schlesinger sat down in Houston Hall yesterday to an unusual occurrence. Rather than studying or eating lunch, Schlesinger was pampered with a fresh coat of light-pink nail polish. Get a manicure and support the fight against breast cancer - that was the message behind yesterday's "Manicure for the Cure" event, held on the first floor of Houston Hall.

Yesterday's preliminary hearing scheduled for Joseph Cho, the former Penn Law student facing charges of attempted murder, has been postponed until April 2. Judge Frank Bailey issued another continuance yesterday, as Cho's attorney Peter Bowers was unable to attend the hearing for the second time.

In efforts to aid victims of the Kenyan political crisis, Student Ambassadors of the World is conducting a drive to collect supplies for a rural village in Western Kenya. Violence disrupted the country following a contentious December election, killing and displacing thousands, until President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga reached an agreement last week with the hope of restoring peace.

Last night, the Penn Democrats endorsed Illinois Sen. Barack Obama for president, despite debate about whether to endorse a candidate at all. The endorsement required a two-thirds majority to pass. Following the vote, College sophomore Mukul Sharma, Penn Dems vice president, said the group will do "whatever it can" for Obama and wants to host a visit for either the senator or his surrogates before the April 22 Pennsylvania primary.

Each semester, approximately 600 students in Introduction to Psychology will participate in research projects, ranging from experiments about coping with stress to improving body image. The course requirement does more than help students understand how psychology is studied - it provides graduate students and professors with a convenient pool of subjects for their work.

Like any daughter, Chelsea Clinton doesn't always agree with her mother. But none of those differences in opinion came up yesterday, when hundreds of Penn students gathered on Wynn Commons to hear the former first daughter speak about the presidential campaign of her mother, New York Sen.

E-mail has been widely accepted as a form of communication in many industries, but some worry that the medium is not suitable for the health-care field. A recent study by Australian doctors found that patients there were much more likely to communicate with surgeons about operations if the doctors provided e-mail addresses.

The national flag of Ghana may be red, yellow and green, but students and faculty at Penn Engineering are working to give the African nation a healthy dose of the red and the blue. Through a partnership with the nation's main science and technology university and a variety of service projects and programs, SEAS has made Ghana a primary focus of its global outreach efforts - efforts they hope will provide benefits to both Penn and the African nation.