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.

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.

With the class of 2013 admitted, Penn Previewed and ready to register, the financial-aid application fears are mostly nonexistent among our newest pre-frosh. The taxes have been returned, the forms have been meticulously filled out and the aid notices have been received (albeit with mixed reactions).

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.

The first time Susan Boyle popped onto my computer screen, I had no clue she would become a phenomenon within days, shocking the world with her unbelievable singing talents despite extremely low expectations. "Susan really makes you wonder how much undiscovered and unharnessed talent there is in the world," Engineering senior Mike Abuschinow said.

Towson coach Tony Seaman should feel right at home Sunday at Franklin Field. After all, he is Penn's all-time winningest men's lacrosse coach. Seaman's squad (6-8) visits the Quakers (3-8, 2-4 Ivy) on the heels of a midweek, double-overtime loss to No. 7 Johns Hopkins.

In a sport where half a second can separate first from last, 10 years might feel like a long time. Maybe even a little longer for Marion Jones. Two grand-jury testimonies, five doomed-to-be-stripped Olympic medals and six months in jail longer. A full decade after anchoring the Nike International team to victory in the 4x200 meters at the 1999 Penn Relays, the former track star returned to West Philadelphia last night to headline the latest installment of the "Race and Sports" lecture series in Huntsman Hall Auditorium, a program co-sponsored by the Wharton Sports Business Initiative and the Center for Africana Studies.

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.

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.

It was just supposed to be a friendly game of football on Thanksgiving with family and friends. Not an event in which you would expect to seriously injure yourself. But to Wharton senior Daniel Doddo, tri-captain of the Penn Men's Lacrosse Club, there is no such thing as a friendly game.

It's time for students to tell professors how they really feel about them - and now they can do it online. The Provost's Office has shifted the entire Penn course evaluation system online, and all students will have to either complete or opt out of the evaluations by May 15 in order to receive their final grades.

If you ask Tim Hickey about his time coaching girls' track at William Penn High School in the 1970s, you're bound to reel from his musings. "Girls were unofficial at that time, so I was unofficial," he said with a chuckle. It's not without a reason that Hickey began his narrative of his career with girls' high school track tongue-in-cheek.

I've always been told you can't fix stupid. Philadelphia, though, is trying to ban it. Last week, the City Council passed a bill that would allow police to ticket motorists, bicyclists, skateboarders, rollerbladers and scooter riders who are caught talking or texting on handheld cell phones.

Good weather isn't the only thing the Penn men's track and field team hopes will return this weekend. With some injuries plaguing the team, the Quakers hope to return to top form in time for the commencement of the Penn Relays. If the Red and Blue can do so, coach Charlie Powell is sure they will find success starting tomorrow.

Penn's Panhellenic community may embrace a new sorority in the near future. Last night, the presidents of each of Penn's eight chapters met with Panhellenic Council president, former Daily Pennsylvanian editor and College junior Alissa Eisenberg to discuss potential for an extension - the process used to add another sorority chapter.

Fifty-three Penn students took vows of silence yesterday in honor of the Day of Silence, a national day that aims to promote awareness of anti-Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender harassment in schools. The day, according to College junior and Lambda Alliance chairman Dennie Zastrow, served as a reminder that "the LGBT community is still marginalized, and there are a lot of rights that everybody else has that LGBT people don't.

For former Penn placekicker Kendall Hochman, revenge is a dish best served cold. Really, really cold. The 32-year old Hochman is over 15 years removed from his blocked field goal attempt that would've beaten high school rival Phillipsburg, but he is still looking for closure.