Whether you're looking to "jazz it up" or simply to dispel the winter blues, the Philadelphia Flower Show with this year's "Jazz It Up" New Orleans theme offers classical jazz music, the largest indoor garden exhibit of its kind and a worthy cause. From this Sunday, March 2 to March 9, the Philadelphia Convention Center will host the 179th -annual Philadelphia Flower Show.

For the past week Irvine Auditorium has boasted a number of notable political figures including Karl Rove, Bill Clinton and after last night, Penn alumnus and former Congressman Harold Ford Jr (D-Tenn.). For more than 600 visiting high-school students, Ford's visit marked the beginning of Penn Model Congress - a program that offers them a chance to jumpstart their political futures.

No surprise here - Penn students still love their booze. But despite sometimes costly bar tabs, students remain unfazed and uninhibited. Between financial assistance from parents, rationing of summer job money and school-year employment, students have found ways to keep their finances in check.

In Division-I softball, a coach usually doesn't need to worry about her outfielders catching fly balls. This is not the case, though, for coach Leslie King and the Penn softball team, as they prepare for their season-opening doubleheader on Sunday against Lafayette.

After a fourth-quarter collapse against Drexel last weekend, the Penn men's lacrosse team is looking to rebound this Saturday and "put a beating" on Villanova, according to co-captain Max Mauro. "It's a cross-town rival," the senior explained. "I'm sure a lot of [our] guys were recruited by Villanova, and they chose this school for a reason.

Things are about to get a little tougher for the men's tennis team. After cruising to easy victories in each of their last four contests, the Quakers will face Maryland and Louisville - two of their strongest opponents yet - when they travel to College Park, Md.

Unpaid internships can have benefits To the Editor: In response to recent columns on unpaid internships (most recently "Pay Me Please" by Zachary Noyce), let me make two points. First, while you will undoubtedly contribute to the work of your internship sponsor, recognize that they are investing considerable time and resources in you.

Wharton MBA students are getting an early introduction to the competitive world of business with their class registration. When selecting courses, students don't merely rank their preferences - they bid on them. At the start of their first year in the MBA program, students are given 5,000 points, which they use to bid on elective courses through an auction system.

Although Penn Park will not open for two more years, the decision to hire Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, as the designer has set the wheels in motion. Anne Papageorge, vice president for the Division of Facilities and Real Estate Services praised the firm's expertise and vision.

Avery Lawrence is a College senior from Charlottesville, Va. His e-mail address is lawrence@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Although the University recently increased graduate students' stipends, other sources of funding they rely on may be shrinking. The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly Research Student Travel Grant helps defray the costs - including travel, hotel and participation fees - of students presenting their work at academic conferences.

'Give credit where credit is due," the saying goes. We hear it in a number of arenas but for college students, it usually comes to mind when working on a paper. A dishonest education system benefits no one. We place mutual trust in each other not to copy, cheat or lie.

It's been a season to forget for the Quakers, but at least some of their final memories at the Palestra will be positive. The Quakers' defense, porous against Yale on Friday, clamped down against Brown on Saturday. After losing 79-70 to the Bulldogs at the Palestra, the Quakers bounced back the next night and beat Brown 56-45.

Former President Bill Clinton, introduced by Penn President Amy Gutmann as an "extraordinary leader devoted to healing inequalities," gave the opening address for the Kerner Plus 40 Symposium to a packed Irvine Auditorium yesterday morning. Engineering freshman Aditya Kaji, like many others, waited in line for hours to get a pass for the speech, but he thought it was well worth the wait.

Five years after the United States invaded Iraq, America's justice system often finds itself struggling to cope with returning soldiers. Incidents such as the case of Joseph Cho, a former Penn Law student who is also a military veteran facing charges of attempted murder, have cast questions on the role of post-traumatic stress disorder in the legal process.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently awarded a $750,000 grant to be given over the next six years to the School of Arts and Science's initiative to encourage Cross-Cultural Contact scholarship, the study of what happens when different cultures collide and coalesce.

In the past few weeks, I have had the pleasure of hearing a wide array of feedback relating to the most recent issue of the Pennsylvania Punch Bowl Humor Magazine. As a member of Penn's large and diverse Asian American community and as an editor of Punch Bowl, however, I was concerned to hear that some people found the issue racist.