The student hospitalized with a meningococcal infection at St. Joseph's University has been confirmed to have strain B of the infection, the same strain that infected four Penn students in February and March. But according to Penn spokeswoman Lori Doyle, the cases are not related.

Large crowds of a few hundred high-school aged West Philadelphia residents gathered at 40th and Walnut streets Saturday night before being dispersed by police. One person reportedly assaulted a police officer, according to a member of the Philadelphia Police Department, though this report was contradicted by other police officers.

This year's Hey Day saw the usual tossing of flour and condiments and shooting of milk-filled super-soakers - but in smaller doses than in past years. According to College Senior and Class of 2009 President Brett Perlmutter, this slight shift away from hazing - a custom that began in 2002 - is a result of a pledge nearly 1,600 seniors signed promising to go easy on their younger classmates.

By SAYANI MUKHERJEE Staff Writer mukherjee@dailypennsylvanian.com A report published this month by the National Consumer Law Center aims to help students with private loans who would otherwise have difficulty making payments. Titled, "Too Small to Help - The plight of Financially Distressed Private Student Loan Borrowers," the report was developed by the NCLC's Student Loan Borrower Assistance Project.

The Social Planning and Events Committee elected its new executive board for 2009-2010 last night. College junior Dasha Barannik will lead SPEC as the body's new president. College junior Preston Hershorn will serve as the vice president, Wharton sophomore Adam Thompson will take over as treasurer and College junior Eileen McKeown will be secretary.

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To gain entry into the Final Toast event on College Green on Hey Day, seniors signed a pledge to not throw items at the parading Class of 2010 - and yet a number chose to welcome the juniors not by raising a toast, but by pelting one of the free beers provided at the event.

The Undergraduate Assembly took the meaning of a nine-to-five job seriously last night. From 9 p.m. Wednesday night to 5 a.m. Thursday morning, the group held its executive board elections - but ultimately selected only two of the five positions. College sophomore Alec Webley was elected UA chairman, while College junior Lucia Liu was selected for executive vice chairwoman.

The "civic vision" for the Delaware riverfront area, created three years ago, took a step forward toward implementation. At the Philadelphia City Planning Commission meeting Tuesday, the plan was accepted as a mode to transform the urban landscape along the Delaware River's waterfront.

Stanley Fish would argue that professors should stick to the classroom. As the speaker for the Philomathean Society's "Annual Oration" event, Fish gave a lecture titled "What Professors Should and Shouldn't Do in the Classroom" last night in Claudia Cohen Hall.

As part of the AT&T; Aspire initiative, AT&T; Pennsylvania donated a grant of $300,000 over three years to Penn's Netter Center for Community Partnerships's College Access and Career Readiness Program. The donation was a portion of the nearly $800,000 in grants to programs throughout Philadelphia related to high-school achievement and post-graduation preparation.

Once the central hub and meeting place on campus before closing in 2003, the Palladium Bar - a restaurant and bar on 36th Street and Locust Walk where the ARCH building now stands - was also the anchor of a Hey Day tradition. As juniors paraded down Locust Walk, seniors toasted the procession from the bar.

College student Neil Gajare, arrested and charged with arson, posted $5,000 bail yesterday and is awaiting a preliminary hearing. The hearing is scheduled for April 29. The 22-year-old is being charged with arson and four related offenses in connection with a fire in Rodin College House early Wednesday morning.

Humans have been treating diseases with national products that come from plants and animals, but a Penn Museum of ArchaeoloProxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 and Anthropology researcher recently found that ancient people also utilized alcoholic beverages for medicinal purposes. Led by Anthropology professor and Penn Museum senior research scientist Patrick McGovern, the study on ancient Egyptian herbal wines was published in Proceedings of the National Acad

EVANSTON, Ill.,-- It was cold, it was wet, it was windy and it was a second half that Penn would rather forget. Despite leading 6-5 at halftime, the women's lacrosse team fell to No. 1 Northwestern 11-9. It was the second straight time that the No. 3 Quakers (13-1) fell to the Wildcats.

A student at St. Joseph's University has been hospitalized with a suspected case of bacterial meningitis, according to Harriet Goodheart, a spokeswoman for the university. The diagnosis has not yet been confirmed, she said. Until it is, health officials will not be able to determine whether the case is linked to the outbreak that hospitalized three Penn students with meningococcal infection earlier this semester.

Updated Apr. 26, 12:45 a.m. Large crowds of a few hundred high-school aged West Philadelphia residents gathered at 40th and Walnut streets Saturday night before being dispersed by police. One person reportedly assaulted a police officer, according to a member of the Philadelphia Police Department. However, this report was contradicted by other police officers. Other officers said large crowds of people were rushing out of the Bridge movie theater at 40th and Walnut streets.