The task of writing this farewell has been on my mind for months. While I knew I had to do it, finding a way to fit four years into 700 words wasn't easy. I thought the best way to bid adieu to my undergraduate life was with a nice bedtime story a la Goodnight Moon.

The men's lightweight crew team closed out its regular season in dominating fashion Saturday morning, cruising through its final regular-season meet against MIT and Saint Joseph's on the Schuylkill River. The victory - which was the Quakers' first of the season - featured sub-six minute times from all three boats in the varsity 8 and served as a definite morale booster heading into postseason competition.

From sumo wrestling to mechanical bull riding, the third annual GradFest was in full swing last Saturday. The day-long event for graduate students, organized by the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, took place at Wynn Commons and in Houston Hall.

CHEERS To SCUE, for pushing through two major online initiatives, Online Course Review and Online Syllabi. These two initiatives will make students' lives much easier - and will save tons of paper. To Women's Lacrosse and Men's Fencing, for their Ivy Championships.

The seeds are out, the tournament is about to start, and it looks like Penn dodged a bullet while still not grabbing the golden apple. Last night the NCAA announced the bracket for the 2009 Women's Lacrosse Tournament, and the Quakers (13-2, 7-0 Ivy) received the fourth seed.

While the stands have cleared, the vendors have packed up and yet another Penn Relays has come to a close, the season for Penn women's track and field is far from over. The Quakers will host the Heptagonal Championships, the equivalent of Ivy League Championships, at Franklin Field May 9 and 10.

Considering it hadn't lost at home in the regular season since 2006, the Penn women's lacrosse team was confident coming into their home matchup against No. 13 Stanford Saturday. Despite their sole regular season loss in 2008 at Stanford, the No. 3 Quakers were looking to blow out the No.

The preliminary yield for the class of 2013 is 63 percent - the same as last year - according to Dean of Admission Eric Furda. This statistic, however, is down from 66 percent in 2007. Penn enrolled 19 more students than expected, according to an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Brian Fulton's role on the Penn men's track team is to run races that span 800 meters. Fortunately for the freshman and his teammates, they won't have to travel much farther than that to get to this weekend's spring Heptagonals. The Quakers will participate in the spring Heptagonals - the equivalent of Ivy League Championships - Saturday and Sunday at Franklin Field.

Following the fire in Rodin College House on April 22, many University administrators remain unsure about a number of details about Neil Gajare, the Penn student who is suspected of starting the fire. Gajare's arraignment, originally scheduled for April 29, was postponed until May 20.

Wearing the Red and Blue jerseys for the final time Saturday, Penn's seniors played a game they won't soon forget. The Quakers got all but two of their goals from the graduating class and held off Army in the fourth quarter for an 11-10 victory. "We were absolutely all about going out and having fun today," senior goalkeeper Greg Murray said.

The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly's 2009-2010 budget will increase by 19.2 percent, from $643,153 in fiscal year 2009 to $787,078 for FY2010. The increase was due to the administration's recognition of a disparity between the budgets of the Undergraduate Assembly and GAPSA, according to outgoing GAPSA chairman Andrew Rennekamp, a Ph.

Penn students are becoming famous for not eating - or rather, for donating their uneaten meals to the homeless. Since reading days last semester, Wharton freshman Ricky Oxenhandler, along with College freshmen Becca Elman and Jake Werlin, a Daily Pennsylvanian photographer, has been working on More Than Pennies, an initiative to donate students' uneaten meals to homeless people and shelters around Philadelphia.

Penn's graduate schools are as strong as ever, according to new rankings released by U.S. News and World Report in April. Penn made it into the top 10 on 11 different lists and remained fairly consistent with previous years in the key categories - business, engineering, medicine, law and education.

Updated May 10 5:35 p.m. Despite a win in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, the Penn women's lacrosse team is not satisfied. Despite beating Fairfield, 10-8, at Drexel's Vidas Field, the No. 4 Quakers will look to improve on their first game of the extended season.

May 9, 8:43 p.m. Legendary college, professional and Olympic coach Chuck Daly, who steered the Quakers to four Ivy League and Big 5 titles in his six seasons at the helm, died Saturday after a bout with pancreatic cancer. He was 78.

The Division of Public Safety's Walk-Back Program will return this year during Reading Days and final exams. From April 29 to May 12, a Penn Police officer will be posted at the Button on College Green and will enter Van Pelt Library every half hour from 11 p.