Student Activities Council will fund some political and religious groups for the first time in the upcoming year. Budgets for the Penn Democrats and PRISM, an interfaith religious group, were both approved at SAC's annual meeting on April 22. Though political and religious groups have historically been denied University funding, the issue became particularly salient when political groups spent a large amount of money funding events during the election last year.

Updated May 8, 6:41 p.m. The CDC has confirmed two cases of swine influenza in Philadelphia. Neither of the two patients became sick enough to be hospitalized, however, and both are recovering, according to the Philadelphia Department of Health. Nine probable cases of swine influenza have now been reported in Philadelphia, though the infection has not affected the Penn community.

Picture this: The University of Pennsylvania, fall 1951. Harry Truman is the president of the United States, we are in the midst of war with Korea and women are not allowed to sit on chairs in Houston Hall. Also that fall, my grandfather entered Penn as a freshman, just shortly after the University stopped using informal quotas to limit the number of Jews who were accepted.

Former Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya was released from prison Friday after serving a sentence for manslaughter, according to John Painter, a spokesman for the Delaware Department of Corrections. Malinovskaya, 27, pleaded no contest to manslaughter in June 2008 for allegedly bludgeoning her ex-boyfriend Robert Bondar's then-girlfriend, Irina Zlotnikov, to death.

This weekend, a concerned group of Penn faculty brought experts on climate change together to inform the Penn community about the challenges and opportunities that climate science presents. The event, "Symposium: Responses, Risks and Adaptation to Climate Change," was held Friday morning and afternoon in the Chemistry building.

Looking back on the 2008-09 Penn sports year, this wasn't exactly one to remember. Despite a strong start, things seemed to go downhill as the year progressed. In the fall, M. Soccer won the Ivy League, while Football, Field Hockey and Volleyball finished third.

The conventional formula for a senior goodbye piece (whether it takes the form of a DP column or a commencement speech) goes something like this: 1.) Nostalgically list several fond, quintessentially-Penn memories-"I remember getting wasted at Smokes/being pelted at Hey Day/pissing on Ben Franklin's statue ." 2.

Amputations from wound infections might become obsolete because of four Penn students. The four students won $20,000 in Wharton's 2009 Business Plan Competition last Wednesday with their device that monitors the wound-healing process. The team of students, called NIR Diagnostics, comprised MBA students Pitamber Devgon, Xiaoming Fang and Bosun Hau and School of Medicine Ph.D. student Armen Karamanian.

With a fourth seed in the NCAA tournament, the Penn women's lacrosse team is starting their season anew. The Quakers (13-2, 7-0 Ivy) dropped their last two regular season games to No. 1 Northwestern and then No. 13 Stanford, tarnishing their undefeated record.

Beginning June 1, Research scientist Loa Traxler will step into the position of the Andrew W. Mellon associate deputy director of the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, announced last week. When she takes on her new position, she will end her work as a research specialist in the American Section.

Sunday, Penn's heavyweight rowing team hopes to steer past April's troubles and glide to Ivy victory at the Eastern Sprints Championship. Held annually at Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Mass., the Sprints include the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges teams, which is comprised of the Ivies plus some other schools such as Navy, Northeastern and MIT.

Janice Dow is a College sophomore from Los Angeles. Her e-mail address is dow@dailypennsylvanian.com

If you had one hour to speak to an audience before you died, what would you say?

College senior Hannah Marcus knew she had something when she stumbled across 2,200 pages of a medieval manuscript in Bologna, Italy, that nobody had ever really written about or even read. So she decided to. The history major and religious studies minor turned the 16th century manuscript about the cross of Christ by Renaissance scientist Ulisse Aldrovandi into her senior thesis project - and now has 111 pages of her own on the topic.

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.