From match-making to mapping, there are hundreds of hidden features to feed that Facebook craving.

Spring Fling directors announced yesterday that just over 500 of the 2,000 available guest passes have been sold, about the same number that had been sold at this time last year. Engineering junior and Spring Fling co-director Lindsay Motlin said she does not expect a spike in guest pass sales due to the April 13 Ben Folds/Third Eye Blind concert.

Tyler Morris shrugs his shoulders at Philadelphia's degree of bike-friendliness. "It's average," said Morris, a College junior and a daily bike rider. "They make an effort to accomodate bikers." But if Alex Doty, executive director of the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, has his way, bicycling in Philadelphia will never again be just an "average" experience.

Last Friday evening at Jack's Firehouse, Andy Toy stood on the second floor of the fashionable Fairmount restaurant, planting the seeds for a successful run for City Council.

Robert Baldi lived in Hill College House for only the first few days of his freshman year before moving out. Now a College senior, Baldi has lived in an apartment in Rittenhouse Square for the last four years, giving him "a much different Penn experience than most people.

First-year MBA candidate Tamara Rajah is out to solve the problem of finding good-quality women's business apparel that doesn't break the bank. "There's a lot of men's businesswear available, but not women's. And even if it is available, it's not very affordable," she said.

An arrest warrant has been issued for an employee of Au Bon Pain in Huntsman Hall in connection with a Southwest Philadelphia homicide, Det. John Ramsey of the Philadelphia Police Homicide Unit said yesterday.

When one Penn freshman had her coat stolen at a bar last month, she was understandably upset. Only 19, the student faced a choice: Either bite the bullet and report the crime - and face the consequences for underage drinking - or kiss her $150 jacket goodbye.

L'Oreal thinks Wharton is worth it. A team of students from Wharton West, the business school's San Francisco branch, has advanced to the final round of L'Oreal's e-Strat competition, which asks participants to play the role of a simulated cosmetics company's general manager.

Theft Mar. 29 - A male student, 22, reported that his bicycle, valued at about $150, was removed from a bike rack outside the McNeil Building, located at 3718 Locust Walk, at about 6:10 p.m. Mar. 29 - A female student, 23, reported that her bicycle was stolen from a bike rack outside of Williams Hall, located at 255 S.

Penn has settled for its suspect loan policies, but problems are on a nationwide scale

Last Wednesday at the University Council meeting, role call may have gone a little something like this: President? Here. Provost? Here. Student government? Here. But one group was noticeably underrepresented: faculty.

It's like the limbo for Ivy League admissions rates - they just keep going lower and lower. Five other Ivy League schools joined Penn in admitting the lowest rates of applicants yet, but experts say Penn has the best chance to keep the momentum going. Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth, Brown and Columbia universities all joined Penn by accepting record-low percentages of applicants.

"They just don't make men like that anymore." So said College senior Claire Stapleton after attending "dapper" author Gay Talese's lecture on his experiences as an Italian American and his writing career. Talese, who was the first Kelly Writers House Fellow in 1999, returned to Penn for a lecture yesterday evening, speaking to a mixed crowd of about 75 students and adults.

The University reached a $1.6 million voluntary settlement agreement with New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo yesterday, pledging to clean up its student loan practices.

On Sunday night, the UA passed three student life-related proposals, all of which could benefit students in the near future. The first proposal, regarding the Penn Video Network, urged the University to develop a cost-effective strategy for updating the infrastructure of the system.

College applicants have rated Penn No. 10 in a survey of "dream schools" by the Princeton Review. But their parents felt differently, with Penn failing to crack the top 10 at all. For the third year in a row, New York University was rated the most popular "dream school" among prospective students.