Less than a day after its first successful run, the Large Hadron Collider - the largest particle accelerator in the world - ran into its first glitch on Sept. 11 and has been shut down since. Penn researchers who were participating in the project say they are disappointed but still have plenty of work to take care of while waiting for the accelerator to be fixed.

Unresponsive elevators are fast becoming a thing of the past for Harnwell College House residents, though they may experience inconvenience on the way up. Over the next year, the building will undergo $1.75 million of extensive elevator renovations, which have already been finished in Rodin College House and will occur in Harrison College House following work in Harnwell, according to Mariette Buchman, director of Design and Construction Management.

White Dog Cafe owner Judy Wicks considers herself an independent thinker. So when she decided to stop selling bottled water at her establishment early this year, the decision was based on her commitment to preserving the environment, not local or national trends.

Now that the firestorm surrounding the Logan Hall-Claudia Cohen Hall Fiasco has died down, we can put the whole episode in a little bit of context. Frankly, the name of the building won't compromise the quality of your Philosophy lecture in Logan/Cohen 17.

As the word spread that Stephen Lynch would be performing on campus this semester, many students raised questions regarding his "offensive" and "sensitive" jokes. SPEC announced yesterday that Lynch would be performing at their annual fall show on Oct. 17 at Irvine Auditorium.

The Microsoft empire struck back this week with a new advertising campaign. The company is out to prove that it's not as stodgy as Apple commercials make it out to be. The campaign's television advertisements have been generating a lot of interest, and most students think Microsoft's image is making a change for the better.

Penn is taking more than just basketball titles from Princeton University this year. Over the summer, Music professor Carolyn Abbate, one of the world's most prominent musicologists, has been appointed the Christopher H. Browne Distingui

uick, name an aspect of military policy that Obama and McCain agree on completely. It's not the war in Iraq or the best way to handle Iran. No, both candidates think Columbia University should bring back its ROTC program, as they both said earlier this month.

Amira Fawcett is an Engineering senior from Houston, Texas. Her e-mail address is fawcett@dailypennsylvanian.com.

The Undergraduate Assembly met as a full body for the first time last Sunday night as the newly elected freshmen moved from the audience to the inner circle. "I'm really excited about this year's freshman class," wrote UA chairman and Wharton and College senior Wilson Tong in an e-mail.

Five dollars was all she needed to make her point. During the Democratic primary, College sophomore Sarah Arkebauer clicked on an e-mail from Sen. Hillary Clinton. In the e-mail, Clinton asked for any donation to help counter a statement from Sen. Barack Obama comparing her to President George W.

How much should an illegally shared song cost? According to a recent federal jury decision, $9,250. Last October, a district court ordered Minnesota native Jammie Thomas to pay the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) $222,000 for illegally sharing 24 music tracks.

Amid the chaos and turmoil on Wall Street, business schools across the country, including Wharton, are doing all they can to reach out to their alumni and offer a helping hand. As major financial firms have collapsed over the past two weeks, Career Services sent e-mails to alumni letting them know of services available to them, Career Services counselors said.

Many of Penn's peer institutions eked out modest endowment growth for the past fiscal year, despite a rocky economic climate. Of peer institutions who have reported figures at this time, Penn's endowment is the only one to have shrunk, droppin

After finishing off a hard-fought 2-0 victory over Harvard at 9 p.m. on a rainy Saturday night, Natalie Capuano and her women's soccer teammates still had one obligation left to fulfill. As two local girls' soccer teams walked onto the field, the victorious Quakers were besieged with autograph requests.

Yale and Harvard's losses on Saturday - at Cornell and at Brown, respectively - weren't just notable because those squads were pegged as the Ivy League's top two teams heading into the season. It was also the first time since Nov. 11, 2006, that the Elis and Crimson lost Ancient Eight games on the same day.

With research becoming a vital part of the undergraduate experience at Penn, the Nursing school has devised a way to allow its student researchers to showcase their work through a research journal dedicated to them. The Journal of Nursing Student Research is a publication that compiles the research of students and gives them a platform to receive recognition for their work.