It isn't every day that directly breaking University rules pays off. But that's exactly what happened for Randal Pinkett, the Season Four winner of The Apprentice, when he started a compact-disc business out of his dorm room at Rutgers University. "It violated every single rule Rutgers had," Pinkett said of his CD business, which eventually evolved into BCT Partners, the multi-million dollar management, technology and policy consulting services firm of which he is currently the CEO.

As former Penn Neurosurgery professor Tracy McIntosh waits to see if the Pennsylvania Supreme Court will hear his case appealing a resentencing order from a Superior Court, the case seems to have become a battle of the briefs. In December, a Superior Court ordered McIntosh to be resentenced by a lower court in connection to sexual-assault charges that he pled no contest to in 2004.

The Quakers open the single-elimination tournament sponsored by the Philadelphia Phillies with a home game against Saint Joseph's.

Kal Penn's celebrity status should not be a reason to hire him to teach.

From the Undergraduate Assembly and the Division of Public Safety to the Office of the University Provost, officials are stepping in to handle the controversy that emerged last week surrounding allegations of racial profiling.

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

Scheduling Spring Fling and Penn Previews for the same weekend is a disaster waiting to happen.

About 60 people gathered Sunday night in Huntsman Hall for the weekly Undergraduate Assembly meeting. On the agenda: a contingency budget request, Locust Walk repairs, improvements to Penn InTouch and dining. n The senior class requested $1,000 additional funding to cover Senior Performing Arts Night and keep the event free for seniors.

Tickets for this year's Spring Fling concert - headlined by Ben Folds and prefaced with a set from Third Eye Blind - went quickly yesterday, the first day they were available on Locust Walk.

12Days that 1,400 faculty and staff members of Community College of Philadelphia were on strike.Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer

Much has been said about the close of this past basketball season being the "end of an era" for Penn hoops. That may be true, but it may turn out to be something equally important: the beginning of another era for Ivy League basketball - one filled with greater balance and parity.

For a team that won the Ivy League title, it was only appropriate to close on a high note. In its final home meet of the season, the Penn gymnastics team finished its season by beating Cornell, 190.675 to 188.40. After two solid rotations on vault and bars, the Quakers were competing true to form with freshman Marissa Rosen nailing down a 9.

The Crimson aren't the best lacrosse team in the Ivy League, but they look like it against Penn. In a back-and-forth game, Harvard scored the final three goals, including one only a minute into overtime, for the 7-6 win over Penn. It is the third time in three years the Quakers have lost to Harvard.

You would think that the military would make a tough opponent in an athletic event. But after two straight dominant victories, Penn could get used to facing our nation's military academies, at least on the tennis court. The men's tennis team defeated Army yesterday 7-0 , following its shutout victory over Navy Wednesday.

MADISON, N.J., March 25 - Penn fencing coach Dave Micahnik described it as "a Berkowsky performance." What was he referring to? It was junior Ron Berkowsky's silver medal finish in foil at the NCAA Championships. "When he does well, it doesn't surprise me," Micahnik said.

Three years after Stephen Colbert came to campus, the man who replaced him on The Daily Show is following suit. Daily Show correspondent Dan Bakkedahl will host the Ninth Annual Mask and Wig Intercollegiate Comedy Festival on April 9 and 10, officials from The Mask & Wig Club and the Social Planning and Events Committee said.

Attention, class: Introducing . Professor Kumar? Kal Penn, famous for playing the fast-food-chasing, pot-smoking slacker Kumar in the 2004 film Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, is slated to teach two undergraduate courses in the University's Asian American Studies Program during the spring 2008 semester.