Thanks to the recent opening of the Jean Madeline Aveda Institute, students can get pampered on a budget.

A change in admissions deans notwithstanding, Penn continues to maintain that early decision is here to stay. After Harvard and Princeton universities announced last fall that they were both dropping their early-admissions programs, many expected Penn and the other Ivies to follow suit.

n "I just loved watching her life play out. It was beautiful. She was always doing something extraordinary. There was nothing ordinary she would do." "Her family came before anything else in the whole world. She would give anything up for her family." - Penn State University sophomore Missy Rupp, Ryan's high-school best friend n "I was obsessed since the moment I met her.

Penn's Division of Public Safety has released a traffic advisory due to ongoing construction on the Annenberg School for Communication. Lane closures near the construction site began Wednesday morning. The closures are expected to last between two and three weeks.

Unlike most Penn students, Wharton seniors Jason Toff and Kelly Schaefer spent their summer nights chatting online with Indian programmers.

For Penn Dining, the opportunity to link with professional services giant Aramark six years ago was supposed to bring much-needed improvements to the University's dining services.

When it comes to funding construction, America's biomedical-research colleges may be approaching the perfect storm. Nationwide, medical schools have continued to engage in ambitious expansion projects with the expectation that federal funding will help foot the bill.

Newsflash: Bringing your A-game in a round of Halo doesn't translate to an A on your Econ midterm. In a recent year-long study, researchers surveyed incoming freshmen at Berea College in Kentucky and found that students who brought video-game systems to school earned a lower GPA than their non-gaming classmates.

WILMINGTON, Del. - It was deja vu all over again as the third murder trial for Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya began yesterday at the New Castle Co. courthouse.

When the Covenant - the red, cylindrical statue on Locust Walk - was erected in 1975, students called it "obnoxiously spastic" and reminiscent of "cosmic soda straws." Now, students just call it the Dueling Tampons. And that's what 1996 College graduate Matt Rosler calls his Web site: Duelingtampons.

Scientists often joke that, instead of having a genie grant three wishes, they'd just prefer three grants. Well, scientists engaging in interdisciplinary research might not have to bother with the genie anymore. The National Institutes of Health Roadmap for Medical Research announced last week funding of $210 million over five years for nine interdisciplinary research consortia nationwide.

The Barnes Foundation's world-renowned art collection is slated for a move that will bring the works closer to other prominent cultural institutions - and nearer to Penn students as well. Last week, the Barnes acquired a site on Benjamin Franklin Parkway near the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Rodin Museum.

If you've never heard of Ben Kweller, you're not alone. Only five out of 62 Penn students surveyed by The Daily Pennsylvanian said they were familiar with this year's pick for the Social Planning and Events Committee's fall concert. Set to perform on Oct.

Last week, both houses of Congress passed a comprehensive student-aid bill that considerably raises the maximum Pell grant and halves the interest rate students pay on federal loans.

The management of El Azteca was fed up with the vomit, the dining and dashing and the missing sombreros - all symptoms of having a drunken, college-age clientele. So the famous -or perhaps notorious - margarita-making restaurant at 7th and Chestnut streets took action last December.

A new apartment building opening means new retail options for Penn students and the community. Domus, which is opening its doors at 34th and Chestnut streets to residents this fall, has confirmed four of the five retailers that will occupy its ground floor.

Nursing senior Eric Bowles not only finished the race, but his record - 10 hours, 6 minutes - earned him first place in the 18 to 24 age group in the Louisville qualifying round.