A message board for law students has recently been gathering attention from a variety of sources for its creators' decision to keep sexist, racist and homophobic messages posted on the Web site. And Penn Law student Anthony Ciolli, one of the directors of that Web site, AutoAdmit.

Theft Mar. 8 - A male complainant, 35 and unaffiliated with the University, reported that, upon returning to his parked vehicle at Penn Tower Parking, located at 399 S. 34th St., at about noon, the driver's side door had been pried open and the GPS system, value undetermined, had been removed.

A "typical" day for Penn students should prove pretty tempting for high school seniors. At least that's what the Admissions Office hopes as it updates the Penn Admissions film, used to attract prospective students to the University. This new film will focus on the daily lives of 10 Penn students who participate in a wide variety of extracurricular activities.

Former Penn professor Robert Grossman will be the next Dean of the New York University School of Medicine, NYU officials announced last week. Grossman, who graduated from the Penn School of Medicine in 1973, will also serve as the new CEO of the NYU Hospitals Center.

For charitable - and hungry - Law students, the idea is simple: Round up as many friends as possible and go out to eat. The more friends you bring and the more food you eat, the better. These steps are the basic requirements for Dining for Change, a group launched earlier this month by two first-year Law students, Madhu Muthukumar and Dimitri Islam.

Last week, Philadelphia's most colorful mayoral candidate bowed out of the race. But don't worry, Milton Street fans: He's already back in the action. Street announced last week just hours before the filing deadline that he was dropping out of the race to become Philadelphia's next mayor.

The former second-year Law student who faces charges of attempted murder has withdrawn from the Law School.

If Ben Folds seems like a familiar choice for this year's Spring Fling headliner, it's because he is. Folds, who will perform at Penn on April 13, follows a line of music artists brought to Penn that all tend to play similar, alternative-pop styles of music.

The date for a preliminary hearing for Troy Brown, the man charged with a string of robberies with a screwdriver, has been reset for May 4 after he was assigned a new court-appointed lawyer last week. Cathie Abookire, a spokeswoman for the district attorney's office, said the preliminary hearing that had been scheduled for March 5 had been changed to a status listing, in which Brown was appointed a new attorney, Alston Meade.

Three-time presidential cabinet member and co-chairman of the Iraq Study Group James Baker will address Penn's 251st graduating class, University officials announced yesterday.

The nation's largest organization of college professors was less than sold on Penn's movement toward stricter hiring practices for faculty, calling the potential changes "an invasion of privacy."

For most students, spring break comes as a vacation from a month's worth of midterms, papers and summer internship applications. For Penn seniors, however, it comes as a vacation from a month of constant partying. Smokey Joe's, where FebClub begins and ends, was packed last night as seniors gathered to celebrate the last night of a month of daily senior events that included nights at clubs, parties and shows.

James Baker, a former secretary of state and co-chair of the Iraq Study Group, will address the class of 2007 at Penn's 251st commencement on May 14. Baker will be joined by six honorary degree recipients, including Supreme Court justice Ruther Bader Ginsburg and R&B; songstress Aretha Franklin.

Wharton senior Michael Tolkin wants to make Willy Wonka's chocolate factory a reality. Through this Wharton senior's company, Foodily Chocolate Factory, customers would be able to create personal candy bars using potato chips, marshmallows, pretzels and chocolate at a company store.

The deadline for initiating new members into fraternities is today, but some fraternities will be running into overtime - with or without official permission. Under Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs regulations, pledging for both fraternities and sororities is supposed to last six weeks, after which pledges must be officially initiated.

Wharton now has two administrators to replace. The Conference Board officially named Wharton Vice Dean of Executive Education Jonathan Spector as its new president and chief executive officer on Tuesday.

Mayor John Street delivered his final budget address to the city last week, praising his and his predecessor's work in delivering 15 years of balanced budgets. But Pennsylvania regulators and several mayoral candidates aren't so quick to congratulate Street's work.