For most Penn students, spending 15 minutes to get to and from class is pushing it. But last semester, Swarthmore junior Sven David Udekwu measured his commute in hours, not minutes. Waking up at about 9 a.m., catching a 9:10 bus to Penn and arriving almost half an hour before his 10 a.

Tracy McIntosh, the former Penn neurosurgery professor who was resentenced last month for a 2002 sexual assault, is now challenging his new sentence. Joel Trigiani, McIntosh's lawyer, had stated an intent to appeal the new sentence of 3 « to seven years in prison, and he followed through with that appeal on March 20.

A new course-planning tool seems to have made it easier to plan for advanced registration, which begins today for fall classes. Launched on March 17 on Penn InTouch and PennPortal, the program allows students to search for courses based on several criteria, including course name, instructor, status, starting time and the requirement the course fulfills.

When College senior Abby Huntsman stands next to Sen. John McCain, she can see the scars on his face from his days as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. For her, these scars are tangible evidence of how much he's sacrificed for his country. In fact, he's the most patriotic person she's ever met, she said.

With a new citywide partnership, Penn is helping senior-citizen immigrants educate their communities - by making videos. Penn's department of Family Medicine and Community Health has joined in a partnership to improve the health care of Southeast Asian immigrants in Philadelphia, which has the largest Southeast Asian refugee population in Pennsylvania.

QPenn, Penn's annual LGBT pride and awareness week, kicked off this past Thursday and will continue with events and speakers for the community until next Sunday, March 30. The week is designed to celebrate the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender community as well as raise awareness of the issues it faces, said organizers.

As lucky students across campus are finalizing their summer internship plans, seven undergraduates who thought they were done may not be so lucky. With JPMorgan Chase's recent purchase of investment house Bear Stearns, graduates and undergraduates who were set up with Bear Stearns jobs and internships - like these seven - say they are worried that their plans may fall through because of the change.

Dealing with harassment comes naturally to Penn students. Everyday, Locust Walk is a minefield of students peddling their different clubs and activities. But leading up to today's voter-registration deadline, efforts to encourage students to register has become a noticeably intense addition.

It was a quiet Sunday afternoon on the high-rise fields at 40th and Walnut streets until 15 members of the Middlebury College Quidditch team pulled up in two vans. Out emerged the Quidditch players - broomsticks, bludgers, hoops and quaffles in hand - ready to share their adaptation of the Harry Potter sport, as described in J.

Their music video has more than 30 million views on YouTube, and now they're coming to perform to Penn. OK Go will be the third act performing at this year's Spring Fling concert, which will be held at 8 p.m. Friday, April 11 on Franklin Field. The Chicago-based rock group will join rapper Ludacris and indie hip-hop band Gym Class Heroes, who will each take the stage for an hour at the performance.

The quality of advisors can really make or break a student's college experience, according to a recent study. A group of professors from Seton Hall University identified a mentoring gap between male and female chemistry students. Overall, male students were more likely than the female students to recall academic counseling and advice from their advisors as undergraduate and graduate students Closing the mentor gap, according to the researchers and academic experts, could help encourage and retain more women in traditionally male dominated fields, such as engineering and the physical sciences.

While presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton will grace Penn's campus today, over the weekend a former President was strolling Locust Walk. Former Indian President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam was a keynote speaker at the 12th annual Wharton India Economic Forum which was held on Saturday morning at the Park Hyatt Philadelphia.

Registration is now open for the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly's second-annual GradFest, a festival of events to strengthen graduate students' sense of connection to the University and celebrate their achievements. It will take place Saturday, May 3.

Penn students discovered yesterday that sometimes all it takes to successfully market oneself is maintaining direct eye contact, giving a good, firm handshake and flashing a confident smile. These were among the more commonly-known business etiquette tips shared at part one of the Life After Penn series, entitled "Building a Solid Professional Foundation.

By kathy wang Staff Writer wkathy@dailypennsylvanian.com Print journalism may be on the decline, but it's here to stay at Penn - at least for another semester. In a much-debated vote, the Undergraduate Assembly recently decided to continue funding for its UA Readership Program, which brings 657 free copies of The New York Times to campus every weekday, approximately 95 percent of which are picked up.

Inflatable walls and indoor gardens may not be a part of the average student residence, but students in Design professor Bill Braham's design studio for second-year architecture graduate students are testing out their potential. The 11 students in the studio - divided into five teams of two or three - are working to design student housing that produces net-zero carbon emissions using two vacant lots in West Philadelphia as the models.

This year's Philadelphia Flower Show was held at the Convention Center from March 2nd to March 9th. The theme for 2008 was "Jazz It Up". The event was organized by the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.