The day seemed eerily familiar for the Penn softball squad. After winning its first two games of a four-game home stand Saturday against Princeton - by scores of 2-0 and 5-1, respectively - the streaky Quakers suffered a four-run loss in a lackluster performance in yesterday's first game against the Tigers.

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A 30-year-old man affiliated with the University was hit by a car near 38th and Walnut streets on Friday night, according to Division of Public Safety spokeswoman Stef Cella. Cella was unable to confirm the man's condition, since the investigation is being handled by the Philadelphia Police.

Friday afternoon on Senior Day, Lauren Sadaka's name resounded through the crowd. The senior co-captain was in the middle of her final stellar home performance during Penn's 7-0 win over Columbia. But the weekend was just beginning for Sadaka, as yesterday she won the clinching match in Penn's 4-3 win over Cornell in Ithaca, N.

Despite significant increases in the numbers of applicants to Penn's Ph.D. programs, the number of acceptances at most schools will remain relatively similar to past years.=Only 10 of Penn's 12 graduate schools offer Ph.D. programs - the School of Law and the School of Dental Medicine do not.

By MICHAEL ROBERTS Staff Writer roberts@dailypennsylvanian.com Jonathan Boym's tennis career has drawn to a close. And while he finished his career with a bang, earning one of three singles wins for Penn yesterday against Cornell, his team's results will leave something of a bitter taste.

College senior Kojo Minta is struggling to figure out whether to enter academia or the nonprofit sector after graduation. A history major studying 17th-century Puritanism, he finds it hard to reconcile historical interests with concerns about current issues, like poverty and political turmoil.

Although they missed Spring Fling on Friday and Saturday, the Penn women's lacrosse team still had a weekend to remember in Providence, R.I. With their 14-4 win over Brown Saturday, the Quakers are officially the Ivy League Champions. Saturday's win clinched the title outright for the undefeated Red and Blue (13-0, 7-0 Ivy).

In what has been a season of close losses, disheartening Ivy weekends and unfulfilled expectations, Penn baseball had one last chance to salvage a shot at the Gehrig Division with two doubleheaders against Princeton this weekend. But by the time the Quakers notched a win in the last of their four-game set, it was too late.

Minutes before he was to appear on stage at Franklin Field, Akon was the calm eye of his own brand's storm. Security guards, assistants and Benny-D, the tour's DJ, rushed around the dressing room, making sure the 7,500 students and community members outside would enjoy the Konvict Muzik experience.

By JARED MCDONALD Staff Writer mcdonald@dailypennsylvanian.com Two weeks ago, the Undergraduate Assembly passed a resolution calling on the school to "condense and clarify" its policy on the intellectual property rights of students. "The material is out there, but it's just really confusing for students to go through," said UA member and College freshman Cornelius Range, the proposal's main author, who estimated he spent upwards of 10 hours going through the University's IP policy in the course of writing the proposal.

One of the first lessons we all learn as freshmen is that you can bursar an iPod at Computer Connection, then have your parents unknowingly pay the bill for it later. Devious, aren't we? "Bursaring" - the practice of getting billed by the University for a wide variety of on-campus purchases instead of paying for them up front - has always seemed a unique aspect of the Penn culture to me.

Let's be honest - as college students, we take a lot for granted: no class on Fridays, Wawa and FroGro's late-night hours, our ability to watch daytime television like retirees and often, our health. Sure, we keep Student Health on their toes, but for the most part, the diseases that plague our nation tend not to affect our age group.

Over 70 degrees and sunny - students could not have asked for better weather as they celebrated this year's Spring Fling. The beautiful weather helped make Spring Fling a success, as students gravitated to the open-air festivities in the Quadrangle, the Fling concert Friday night and the Carnival on College Green Saturday night.

Guster and Akon may have shared the stage Friday night but many students expressed more excitement about Akon. The Social Planning and Events Committee brought together musicians Akon and Guster in what many students considered an unusual mix for Friday's Spring Fling Concert.

Alicia Puglionesi is a College senior from Havertown, Pa. Her e-mail address is puglionesi@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Maryland was nearly an hour late arriving to Franklin Field Saturday, but when the final whistle blew it was the Quakers who never showed up. Penn was going for its first win ever against the Terrapins (whose bus driver took a wrong turn, hence the delay).