Jason Karsh has the experience, energy and vision to lead the Undergraduate Assembly.

Despite Ben Franklin's best intentions, Penn's current curriculum doesn't do enough to produce 'good' citizens.

Daily Pennsylvanian: Let's jump right in. Is your office always this messy? Charlie Powell: No, it's clean! The spring gets crazy. You get everything from home meets, Penn Relays stuff, expense reports, budget stuff. It gets really messy in the spring; it cleans back up in the summer.

The Division of Public Safety released yesterday the final report of its investigation of last month's alleged racial profiling incident, concluding that the officers involved acted properly and according to procedure and that no racial profiling occurred.

Believers in momentum, that mysterious intangible that athletes and coaches love to harp on, could claim that the Penn baseball team is nearly guaranteed a win today after a clutch sweep of Cornell this weekend. But if the Quakers' tendencies this season are any indicator, today's contest against Lehigh (11-22-1, 1-11 Patriot) will not be a cakewalk, even with Penn riding the boost of two division wins.

When Virginia Tech sophomore Ashley Roe left school yesterday, the campus, normally bustling with 26,000 students, was "a ghost town." "There was a line of police cars, and they were talking to people trying to enter the campus," she said. Yesterday morning, in the deadliest gun massacre in U.

In the wake of shootings on the Virginia Tech campus, Vice President of Public Safety Maureen Rush called for better communication and improved student preparedness as the best way to ensure safety if a similar incident were to occur on campus. Thirty-two people were killed before an unidentified gunman took his own life yesterday at the rural Virginia campus in the worst mass shooting in United States history.

In the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings yesterday, the obvious question being asked on college campuses across the country is, what if it happened here? One of the principle steps the Penn Police took years ago - even before the Columbine attacks in 1998 - to deal with the potential of this type of attack was creating a SWAT team, officially called the Emergency Response Team.

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Alicia Puglionesi is a College junior from Haverton, Pa. Her e-mail address is puglionesi@dailypennsylvanian.com.

The State of New York announced plans yesterday to address the conflicts of interest in the student-loan industry, according to an online MSNBC report. Lenders would be prohibited from offering financial benefits such as referral fees, gifts or trips to university employees.

An alleged carjacker was shot twice and killed during a struggle with Penn Police at about 11:00 a.m. yesterday near 40th and Spruce streets.

Ever had a police officer bring you chicken soup when you were sick? If Penn Police Chief Mark Dorsey and Vice President of the Division of Public Safety Maureen Rush had their way, you just might. Dorsey and Rush, who worked together for the City of Philadelphia before Dorsey became chief in November 2004, call themselves neighborhood people - and they want to do their part to bridge the gap between the Penn and West Philadelphia communities.

The University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy and Practice will host a symposium next week to address ways for charitable donors to assess whether they are, in fact, affecting their designated causes. Former Penn President Judith Rodin will deliver the keynote speech of the "Benjamin Franklin Leadership Symposium.

It will take innovative financial planning and regional cooperation to make SEPTA an asset, not an embarrassment.

The College of Arts and Sciences is about to get a bit trendier. At least, its Web site is. A redesigned College Web site will launch in early July, right in time for incoming College freshman to begin exploring their options at Penn. New changes include quick links and information presented in formats that are more easily digestible than long bodies of text.

In the wake of yesterday's tragedy at Virginia Tech, the entire Penn community joins the rest of the nation in mourning.