Second-year MBA students Irene Susantio and Brian Smith are $20,000 closer to achieving their dream of fighting cancer. On Wednesday, their team, named Solixia, secured the title of Grand Winner at the tenth annual Wharton Business Plan Competition. A radiopharmaceutical company, Solixia has created an agent for diagnosing breast cancer and a treatment for ovarian cancer.

The men's lightweight rowing season is one filled with familiar races and familiar faces: the Navy Day Regatta, the Head of the Charles, the Princeton Chase, the Callow Cup - all year-in, year-out events. But this season brings a less familiar foe to the water: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

When the women's lacrosse team held its annual winter meeting in early 2005, the freshmen sat in the back of the room, as is customary for the team's youngest members. But when the coaches asked the Quakers what their team goals were, the Class of 2008 had something to say.

Assault April 25 - Two complainants unaffiliated with the University, one male and one female, reported that an unknown suspect tried to take the woman's laptop and assaulted the male by punching and kicking him on Franklin Field at 1:30 p.m. April 26 - Demaris Peters, 25, of the 400 block of 60th Street, was arrested for allegedly swerving his car toward police officers on Locust Street at about 1:30 p.

Daniel Schwartz is a College sophomore from Decatur, Ga. His e-mail address is schwartz@dailypennsylvanian.com.

When Irshad Manji gets up in the morning, she checks her e-mail for death threats and forwards them to the police. It's a regular day for Manji, who has become a target for religious extremists after publishing her international best seller, The Trouble with Islam: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith.

Alumni networking, once relegated mainly to reunions and Homecoming, is being transformed as more alumni join social-networking sites like Facebook - and schools are paying attention. Alumni clubs, which help alumni within a certain geographic region connect, are discovering that the Internet is a faster and more interactive way to reach alumni, especially those who have graduated since Facebook opened to Penn in 2004.

Lawyers for the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania again denied any wrongdoing in College sophomore Anne Ryan's meningitis death last September. Jed Ryan, the brother of Anne Ryan, filed a lawsuit against HUP in January alleging negligence, wrongful death and negligent infliction of emotional distress.

The living room of the Kelly Writers House was packed yesterday with Penn students and Philadelphia residents alike to hear a reading by the poet Jerome Rothenberg. Rothenberg, the author of over 70 books of poetry, is the last of three Kelly Writers House Fellows to visit Penn's campus this spring.

Most graduate students in Penn's nine Ph.D.-granting schools will pay lower tuition next year thanks to University-wide reforms that standardize fees in order to enhance academic flexibility and increase financial efficiency. The new tuition is $24,000 per year for students in their first through fifth years and $3,000 per year for the sixth year and beyond.

Exacting revenge on the undefeated No. 1 team in the nation might be rewarding enough, but after doing that Sunday, the women's lacrosse team got an extra prize yesterday morning. In the newest Inside Lacrosse Women's Media Poll, the Quakers (13-1, 7-0 Ivy) garnered 193 points, good enough for their first-ever No.

As the semester winds down, I want to take this opportunity to reflect on how we've been doing and to answer some concerns recently brought up by readers. Looking ahead to the fall, we will continue to encourage greater reader participation. We really do appreciate it when readers get in touch with us, especially to offer an opposing point of view.

"Harambe" - Swahili for "come together as one" - is the theme of a new organization working to implement technology and business proposals to further develop the economies of 10 sub-Saharan African countries. The Harambe Endeavor - an alliance of 60 students studying at colleges and universities across the country, including Penn, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University - will create partnerships with students and future leaders in Africa.

With both skyrocketing theft on campus and economic troubles making local and national headlines, the relationship between the two has come into question. As rates of property crime have been rising across the across the nation, some experts have pointed to a link between the state of the economy and crime.

It's hard to miss the Penn Relays. Last weekend, hundreds of the top track and field athletes in North America descended upon West Philadelphia, lining the streets with yellow schoolbuses. The smell of Jamaican beef patties and other sidewalk treats wafted contagiously through the air as throngs of tourists and team supporters crowded Penn's campus to take in the sights.

Just because the political circus has left Pennsylvania, the race for the Democratic primary isn't over - and for some students, the hard work is just beginning. Whether it's traveling across the country as the remaining nine contests are decided or staying in Philadelphia to organize volunteers, several Penn students plan to spend their summers working with a presidential campaign.

Amira Fawcett is an Engineering junior from Houston, TX. Her e-mail address is fawcett@dailypennsylvanian.com.w