This past Sunday night, in the first Undergraduate Assembly meeting after spring break, the body hurried to implement many of their ideas from earlier this year. Soon, student elections will begin to determine the next members of the group. n During a particularly productive Open Forum, College sophomore Linda Kang brought up a number of issues for the UA to tackle.

Facebook has a new application - but this one might help students recover stolen items. This week, the University of North Texas will begin its marketing campaign promoting a new Facebook application that will allow students to register their property online, as well as report stolen belongings.

You jolt awake at 10:35 a.m., late for your morning class. You were up until five the night before, finishing up a paper, and you run out the door with your teeth half-brushed. You grab a left-over cookie from the Insomnia box you ordered last night. Luckily you'll have time to grab some coffee later.

As her voice carries across the packed living room of the Kelly Writers House yesterday, reciting passages from her Best Literary Fiction Award-winning 2005 novel, The Writing on the Wall, it was clear to audience members that Lynne Sharon Schwartz's voice was made to read.

Tuition and fees are set to increase by 4.5 percent next year - the smallest annual increase Penn has seen in the last seven years - bringing the price of an undergraduate academic year to $37,526. According to a March 18 press release, University trustees met last week to determine the tuition increase for the coming academic year.

Yesterday at Sayre High School in West Philadelphia, a businessman sat dead at a desk, surrounded by pills and alcohol. But no one called the police - the whole scene was staged by Penn students for high schoolers learning about forensic science. In CSI and Science in High School, an academically based community service course at Penn, students teach chemistry and forensic science to high-school juniors.

Penn researchers have discovered that sleep apnea - a disorder characterized by periodic lapses in breathing while asleep, usually due to an obstructed airway - results in probably irreversible muscle weakness, which can make the condition even worse. The findings are a "major breakthrough," according to Jerry Siegel, a professor at UCLA's Center for Sleep Research.

College senior Abby Huntsman says her father, Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, "laughs off" questions about a possible vice presidential bid. But Huntsman - who is also a Penn alumnus and trustee - is often mentioned by the media and political pundits as a potential choice to be Arizona Sen.

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.