As spring comes into full bloom and talks of graduation can be heard, tomorrow will mark another change for the University of Pennsylvania. In the afternoon, the 253rd Graduating Class will march from Hill Field to the Quad, up the stairs to the Junior Balcony and down Locust Walk to the steps of College Hall.

Penn coach Brian Voelker said that there are a lot of "lasts" this time of year. He was referring to the team's last road trip of 2008 and the seniors' last of their careers. More noticeable, however, is the last time that the Red and Blue scored more than five goals - April 5.

Penn senior lacrosse captain Sarah Waxman has accomplished a lot in her career: She's has been named National Goalkeeper of the Year, has been to the Final Four, and is currently leading the nation in goals against average. But one thing she hasn't done in four tries is beat Northwestern.

It's been a hard-luck kind of season for Penn. It lost its number-two starter, two of its everyday outfielders from last year and countless games that could have gone its way. But if the baseball gods have any mercy, they will send some good fortune the Quakers' way this weekend when they face Columbia in their final games.

Last summer, while many of her friends in Washington and Wall Street made coffee for congressmen and CEOs, College senior Elizabeth Slavitt did something inconceivable. She went on vacation. "I went to Peru with my friend for a month," Slavitt told me. "We traveled all over the whole country, practiced our Spanish and did a five day trip to Machu Picchu.

As finals week approaches, teaching assistants across the university are probably gearing up for long nights spent answering last-minute questions over e-mails and extra office hours. However, they did have an opportunity to relax with free food and drinks last night at the Graduate Student Center, where the University honored 12 TAs for Excellence in Teaching.

Remembering Genocide To the Editor: Nearly all elements of history can be contested, except one: history repeats itself. This is what makes historical study so crucial and the denial of historical facts so dangerous. April 24 represents a part of history that has been both contested and denied.

I'm ready to march my way into senior year in four days. And I'm going to - thanks to the saving grace of my Spanish professor. But many juniors aren't so lucky. Due to a change in the academic calendar and thanks to a 2006 decision by the Council of Undergraduate Deans, Hey Day - traditionally held on the last day of classes - falls on a Tuesday this year.

Thanks to a new program by Housing and Conference Services, throwing out unwanted items at the end of the school year has never felt better. In an effort to promote environmental and social responsibility, HCS will be collecting students' old clothes and appliances and donating them to charity during the move-out period.

Former Dean of Admissions Lee Stetson, whose 29-year tenure at Penn ended with an abrupt resignation last semester, is starting his own college consulting company, to the surprise of the admissions community. The company - called Stetson College Advisory - will work with "colleges and universities in evaluating their admissions programs, advising selected high-school students regarding the college search process and conducting searches for secondary schools," according to the description posted on the Harvard Summer Institute on College Admissions's Web site, which lists Stetson as a faculty member.

Green is the new red and blue - at least, that's the message Penn is hoping to instill in incoming students before they even set foot here. PennGreen, a new pre-orientation program created by the Undergraduate Assembly earlier this year, will officially debut with a pilot run to train 14 recently-selected freshmen and sophomore leaders this August.

If you're stressed or upset, you're not alone. That's the message of the Me Too Campaign, launched by Duke junior Deepika Ravi this past March as an effort to remind students that their peers are dealing with many of the same problems. In addition to handing out 370 T-shirts with the phrase "Me Too" written on them, campaign leaders hung banners and flyers around campus, held a barbecue to raise awareness and created a Me Too blog for students to post their stories, feelings and experiences.

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

Penn boasts a high percentage of international students in the Ivy League, but that hasn't quenched domestic students' thirst for exposure to the rest of the world. Interest in languages like Arabic and East Asian dialects has increased over the past several years, largely because of the way the international landscape is changing, said College Dean Dennis DeTurck.

Speed, strength and endurance are on full display this weekend during the finals of the 114th annual Penn Relays. Penn Relays, America's premiere track and field event of the early outdoor season, invited qualifying teams from 950 high schools and 250 colleges worldwide this year, along with professionals from some of the world's top track clubs.

Tomorrow's race is named after Charles Francis Adams, Secretary of the Navy during the Herbert Hoover administration. But it's Harvard -- not Navy - that has dominated the Adams Cup, taking home the trophy each of the last seven years. Those two schools will join Penn for the latest installment of the battle that began in 1928.

Despite last week's court ruling blocking the enforcement of new gun-control measures in Philadelphia, some faculty, students and city residents are still calling for what they call "common-sense" firearm laws. The proposed measures, signed into law by Mayor Nutter earlier this month, would limit individuals to one firearm purchase per month, require that owners report lost or stolen guns within 24 hours, ban the possession of automatic weapons and prohibit persons with an order of protection against them and persons deemed dangerous from possessing firearms.