The Undergraduate Assembly adjourned for the year last Sunday night after wrapping up several pieces of legislation from this past year. Members voted to pass the Blood Donor Policy Proposal, which will replace the controversial, recently-passed Blood Donor Discrimination Proposal as the position of the UA.

From Ludacris to Gym Class Hereos, the musical acts on campus this past week have been anything but "ordinary." But yesterday's campus visit from five-time Grammy winner and 1999 College graduate John Legend had a political touch to it. Coming just before next Tuesday's Democratic primary in Pennsylvania, Legend was on campus to help rally for Senator Barack Obama Looking to strike the right chord with newly registered voters, Legend performed seven songs, including his signature hit "Ordinary People," at the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

There's no denying that Penn students are a diverse bunch. About 13 percent of current freshmen are international students. Additionally, many students who are U.S. residents immigrated here from another country. Bridges For Integration is a new organization devoted to helping immigrant students assimilate into American culture.

Wharton may be facing stiffer competition from its European counterparts for quality MBA candidates. European business schools - offering a shorter and cheaper MBA program - are becoming an increasingly popular option for students seeking a higher business degree.

The Colbert Nation has become the Colbert Campus, as Stephen Colbert, the Emmy award-winning comedy host, has descended upon Penn's Zellerbach Theatre for the week. Colbert arrived at Penn last weekend to begin a special filming of his show, The Colbert Report, in anticipation of the April 22 Pennsylvania primary.

The University chose Patkau Architects of Canada as the designer of Penn's newest College House to be built on Hill Square. The first residential hall to be constructed in over 30 years, Hill Square College House will be designed as a low-rise building enclosing a Quad-like square.

Last night, Penn's entire girl's varsity soccer team volunteered at the Hillel Soup Kitchen's first-ever going-away party. The soup kitchen is part of the University City Hospitality Coalition program which runs soup kitchens five nights of the week in University City.

As engineering becomes an increasingly global profession, officials at the Engineering school say their students are going abroad more than ever before - but still not as much as they would like them to. Getting more students to go overseas is a tricky issue, they argue - and one that will require changing student perceptions about the feasibility of such opportunities.

Photos by Carmela Aquino, Will van Eaton, Matt Cianfrani, Priscilla des Gachons, Mustafa Al-ammar, Alvin Loke

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, who is trying to win the Democratic presidential nomination, focused on crime as she campaigned in West Philadelphia last week. At the YMCA located at 51st and Chestnut streets on Friday, Clinton announced a $4-billion-a-year anticrime initiative that she said is aimed at halving the murder rate in large cities.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton looked somber following her speech at the AFL-CIO convention last week. "We need to do something so that our party and our people can make the right decision," she said. The reporters in the room looked around eagerly and uncomfortably, wondering where this speech was leading.

Even the pouring rain couldn't dampen spirits at the Spring Fling concert Friday night. Hosted by the concerts and SPEC-TRUM subcommittees of the Social Planning and Events Committee, the concert featured rock group OK Go and indie hip-hop band Gym Class Heroes along with rapper Ludacris, who headlined the show.

Penn asked why, and the Social Planning and Events Committee answered - with fried Oreos, a cappella performances, human bowling and two days of full-out partying. Penn's annual Spring Fling weekend took place this past Friday and Saturday in the Quad and on College Green.

When Gym Class Heroes drummer Matt McGinley was in the ninth grade, he was in a band that had no singer. And then he met Travis McCoy, now the lead singer of Gym Class Heroes. Still, McGinley's band needed a singer, and McCoy took on that role. He was "into poetry," McGinley said in a post-concert interview.

Penn has emerged unscathed from the latest round of e-mail scams targeting college servers. The fake e-mails, known as phish, have recently changed their tactics to target colleges, according to Douglas Pearson, technical director of an information-sharing and analysis center at Indiana University at Bloomington.

The Recording Industry Association of America has hit a roadblock in its efforts to prosecute four students at Boston University for copyright infringement. Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner forbade Boston University - which had been subpoenaed by the RIAA - from providing the names of students to the organization until she further investigates the school's privacy policy.

Everywhere Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) goes, students seem to follow. In all but three states this year, Obama has won the youth vote and dramatically increased young-voter registration and turn out at the polls. But with the Democratic race unlikely to end soon, many are wondering what will happen with young voters in the fall, particularly if Sen.