For many in the Penn community, yesterday's Martin Luther King, Jr. Day holiday was not simply a day off from classes - it was a chance to reflect on the life of a hero and to live out his message of social justice. From painting with youngsters to cleaning a school to an evening candlelight vigil, the University community celebrated King's 79th birthday with a jam-packed day of tributes and community service.

Have you heard the news? Starting this semester, the Undergraduate Assembly will bring 657 free copies of The New York Times to Penn's campus every weekday. As part of the $21,000 initiative, students can pick up a paper at 18 different locations on campus.

The deadline for On-Campus Recruitment resume submissions is tomorrow, and everyone wants to look good on paper. But a killer resume can only get applicants so far - the recruitment process has made its way to the Web as well. "Employers who recruit at Penn are searching Facebook and they're googling candidates," Director of Career Services Patricia Rose said in an online podcast located on the Career Services Web site.

The men's squash team couldn't have scripted a better way to kick off the new semester. The Quakers played some of their best squash of the season this weekend, knocking off Williams, Amherst and Bowdoin on a demanding road trip that required the team to play three matches in three cities within a 24-hour period.

After almost a year of deliberations on University hiring and admissions practices, the Faculty Senate is still in discussions about requiring prospective professors to self-disclose criminal backgrounds. Three Faculty Senate committees and the Senate tri-chairs are currently drafting proposals on self-disclosure for prospective faculty and considering the implications of such a policy.

Soon, a pricey subscription won't be required to read the latest advances in scientific research. A public-access law signed by President Bush on Dec. 26 makes it mandatory for scientists receiving funding from the National Institutes of Health to put a copy of their peer-reviewed manuscripts in an online NIH archive, pubmedcentral.com, upon acceptance to a publication.

They're taking over campus. You've probably spotted them around. Stuffed in back pockets or tacked to bulletin boards. Full sheet or quarter page. Glossy or matte. Whether you love making flyers or love tearing them to shreds, you can't deny we're buried in them.

In light of last year's 15-percent rise in general theft on and near campus, the Division of Public Safety is focusing its efforts on the problem, a move that could lead to decreases in total crime. An increase in general theft, from 468 incidences in 2006 to 540 incidences last year, was primarily responsible for the 10-percent increase in overall crime seen in the Penn patrol zone in 2007.

When Roberts Proton Therapy Center opens in fall 2009, it will bring to Penn a type of facility that has attracted attention for both its effectiveness and high price. And while critics have spoken out against its costliness, researchers see proton therapy as an important and effective treatment option for some patients, and Penn expects the center to be in demand.

Patients almost always assume that their doctors are prescribing medicine proven to treat their ailments. However, that's not always the case. Almost half of doctors surveyed in a study admitted to having used placebos in their clinical practice, according to a recent study by Penn alum and University of Chicago medical student Rachel Sherman and John Hickner, a professor at Chicago.

The recruitment process took a turn this past weekend for Penn's potential new sorority sisters as they moved from conversations to crafts. Current sorority members and potential recruits got to know each other at increasingly more intimate events over the Martin Luther King holiday.

The Wharton School announced on Jan. 8 that Kenneth Manotti will be named the associate dean for external affairs, effective Feb. 29. Manotti orginally served at Penn from 1978 to 1992. He began his work as coordinator of the Middle East Center before taking on several administrative positions at Wharton, including the assistant director of the Wharton Applied Research Center, the operations manager for on-campus recruiting, the director of development operations for Wharton External Affairs and the associate director of alumni giving, director of 25th reunion programs and director of development and corporate relations for the Joseph H.

It was a loss that, in the context of the grind-it-out Big 5, was almost unprecedented. Penn, just a year removed from a competitive 10-point loss against Saint Joseph's, found itself on the wrong end of an 82-42 drubbing, the second-largest margin of victory in Big 5 history.

Last Friday, over 800 people gathered at the Park Hyatt Philadelphia Hotel to discuss current trends in private equity. The 14th annual Wharton Private Equity Conference, the largest student-run conference of its kind, brought students and industry leaders together to network and learn.

The crime cycle often begins with an unfinished education and chronic unemployment and ends with a prison sentence. Then the cycle begins again, as getting hired with a criminal record is nearly impossible. But increasingly, governments, schools and businesses are providing opportunities for ex-offenders to break this cycle with education and employment.

Through their first three matches, the women's squash team had lost just three of 27 individual matches. This weekend, they were even better. The No. 2 Quakers traveled up to Massachusetts and Connecticut, blowing out No. 7 Williams and No. 17 Amherst on Saturday and No.

It's usually around 2 a.m. when the editors at The Daily Pennsylvanian pick up the phone to call the printers. For the three or four editors still at the office, the 15 minutes waiting for the confirmation call are spent uploading Internet content and cleaning the office. When the call finally comes, the office clears out and the DP turns off its lights. For the printers, however, the night has only just begun.