Next time you feel the urge to just grab a Starbucks latte on your way to class, Chris Bosch wants you to rethink skipping breakfast. Last night in Harrison College House, a group of personal trainers including Bosch, an associate director of Penn Recreation, discussed the best workout programs for a variety of desired results and how students can develop exercise programs for their own lifestyle and goals.

Total employment in the legal industry may be down 1 percent since January 2008, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, but that hasn't dissuaded many students who aim to study law at Penn. While applications to law schools across the nation have declined slightly compared to this time last year, Penn Law reported a 6-percent increase in applications.

Vice President Joe Biden, several major members of President Barack Obama's cabinet and city and state officials will gather in Irvine Auditorium tomorrow for the first official meeting of the Middle Class Task Force. The meeting, which begins at 12:30 p.

Feb. 26, 6:35 p.m. The University's endowment dropped 19.1 percent in the first half of the current fiscal year, according to an e-mail University President Amy Gutmann sent to the Penn community. The e-mail also announced that tuition is increasing 3.75 percent for the 2009-2010 academic year, which is the lowest increase in more than 40 years.

University City now offers one more cheap alternative for lunch. Aroma Cafe, located in International House at 3701 Chestnut St., has just opened for business and is already crowded around lunchtime, restaurant manager Victor Spillman said. He and owner Gennady Goldberg opened the restaurant two weeks ago, after Goldberg's other cafe in International House was relocated within the building.

President Barack Obama's administration will have to decide what role morality will play in U.S. domestic and foreign policy. And yesterday, the Penn Democrats brought professors and students together over lunch to consider the issue. Penn Democrats sponsored and organized a BYOL - "Bring Your Own Lunch" - panel discussion in the Ben Franklin Room of Houston Hall with Political Science professors Rogers Smith, Michael Horowitz, Nancy Hirschmann and Alex Weisiger.

"Nothing is a sure bet anymore," 2008 College alumnus Yoni Levinson said of his future. The biochemistry major had planned on pursuing a career in renewable energy or sustainable technologies after graduation. Now, he is applying to medical school. Like many recent and soon-to-be college graduates facing a tumultuous economy and tight job market, Levinson is turning to graduate school instead of entering the workforce right away.

Between studying biochemistry and economics and researching tuberculosis and enzymes in a lab on campus, College junior Tariro Mupombwa managed to find a way to give back to her home country of Zimbabwe. Mupombwa is in the process of starting a nonprofit to collect sewing machines in the United States and send them to the Salvation Army-affiliated Bumhudzo Old People's Home in Zimbabwe.

Handing out money might be a way to encourage people to quit smoking. After more than four years of research, director of Penn's Center for Health Incentives Kevin Volpp and his team found that providing financial incentives for quitting smoking might decrease smoking rates in the long run.

After rumors and speculations about who would grace Franklin Field this April, the headliner for the 2009 Spring Fling Concert has finally been "locked up." Akon, hip-hop singer-songwriter, record producer and Billboard favorite, will perform April 17 at Franklin Field.

Hoping to make a successful jump into the increasingly popular world of online video, both Comcast Corp. and Time Warner Cable Inc. are in the process of beginning to offer cable shows online to subscribers. The two companies have been in discussions with several of the largest cable-network providers, including Viacom and NBC Universal, in order to secure the rights to distribute popular shows from stations like MTV, USA and TNT online.

The statistics are staggering: Only 7 percent of black eighth-graders perform at grade level in math, there is a 33-percent chance that a black boy born in 2001 will go to prison and 60 percent of black, male, high-school dropouts have spent time in prison.

New management by an outside company may help some of Philadelphia's failing schools make the grade. A recent study by Harvard's Kennedy School of Government professor Paul Peterson and Harvard graduate student Matt Chingos shows that students in schools managed by for-profit companies performed better in math than those in regular public schools.

Money was a major factor when international students are considering whether to apply to colleges abroad. It was for Ana Tere del Toro, a high school senior from Mexico. School is considerably cheaper at home, there are more scholarship opportunities and the applicant pool is less competitive.

Next time you feel the urge to just grab a Starbucks latte on your way to class, Chris Bosch wants you to rethink skipping breakfast. Last night in Harrison College House, a group of personal trainers including Bosch, an associate director of Penn Recreation, discussed the best workout programs for a variety of desired results and how students can develop exercise programs for their own lifestyle and goals.

In the past few months, President Barack Obama's administration has brought morality to the table of U.S. domestic and foreign policy. And yesterday, the Penn Democrats brought the topic to the attention of professors and students on campus. Penn Democrats sponsored and organized a BYOL - "Bring Your Own Lunch" - panel discussion in the Ben Franklin Room of Houston Hall with Political Science professors Rogers Smith, Michael Horowitz, Nancy Hirschmann and Alex Weisiger.

Opponents of the proposed Campus Inn extended-stay hotel project at 40th and Pine streets will have to wait a little longer to make their case. Their appeal of a Historical Commission decision allowing the project to move forward was scheduled to be heard yesterday before the Department of Licenses & Inspections Review Board.