At this year's Spring Fling concert - which will take place at Franklin Field on April 17 - alternative rock group Guster will share the stage with hip-hop artist Akon. Each year, Fling's musical guests are selected through the Social Planning and Events Committee's student-body survey.

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This week, one of Rolling Stone's top 100 guitarists of all time will come to campus. Friday at 7:30 p.m., members of the Penn community will have the opportunity to see Robert Randolph and the Family Band perform at Wynn Commons in a concert put on jointly by the Student Planning and Events Jazz and Grooves Committee and SPEC to Represent Undergraduate Minorities.

If the ads on your Facebook profile page are looking eerily catered to you, there may be a way to get rid of them. Joseph Turow, associate dean for graduate studies at the Annenberg School for Communication, has proposed a clickable icon that will tell Internet users what personal information has caused a specific ad to appear.

A mea culpa of sorts was issued Tuesday by Facebook, as the recent redesign of the popular social-networking site has been met with extreme criticism and backlash from users. Product director Christopher Cox "apologized" on the company's blog, indicating that Facebook would focus on four specific problematic areas of the new design that users have given the most feedback about.

Piercing a woman with copper needles may seem like a strange mating ritual, but for the ancient Greeks, this action was part of a love spell. Classical Studies professor Peter Struck mentioned this spell and others in a talk entitled "Presto Changeo! Magicians in Ancient Times," held last night at the Penn Museum.

Last year, Penn admitted 16.4 percent of its applicants, Princeton University admitted 9.3 percent. This year the Wine Preceptorial topped all with its 2.3 percent admit rate. Out of the 869 students who applied to participate in this year's wine-tasting class, only 20 were allowed to enroll through a random selection process.

In the near future, surgeons might be able to repair injured human nerves. Penn researchers have found a way to grow transplantable nerve tissues which fix damaged nerves and help regeneration in animals. Led by Neurosurgery professor and director of the Penn's Center for Brain Injury and Repair Douglas Smith, the study and the results were published in the journal Tissue Engineering earlier this month.

"I've killed two people, I have a great personality and I've been skydiving," Gee said as he introduced himself to his fellow Political Science 435 students in an icebreaker exercise. Not your typical introduction, but then again, nor is this your typical Penn class.

If all goes as planned, tokens and dollar bills will no longer weigh down SEPTA transit. A proposed 'smart card' system will employ card sensor readers that will work on SEPTA buses, subways and trains, SEPTA representative Gary Fairfax said. It would take about three years to develop the system.

By ARIELA ROSENBERG Contributing Writer gamail@dailypennsylvanian.com The King visited Penn yesterday, exposing the true meaning of the word "gimp." As the documentary King Gimp says, "Gimp" can mean "lame walk" or "fighting spirit, and Dan Keplinger, a victim of cerebral palsy, has proven himself the latter.

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Mayor Michael Nutter's budget proposal - which faces criticism from the City's unions - will be scrutinized in City Council public hearings until mid-May. Proposed last week, the budget contains a "number of difficult choices," said Luke Butler, deputy press secretary to the Mayor, but the level of public engagement demonstrated that citizens will support the decisions.

The bacteria isolated from the campus' fourth reported case of meningitis is "genetically similar" to the bacteria that infected three students last month. All four cases are part of the same outbreak, a City health official said. Despite this, Student Health Service director Evelyn Wiener said the fourth case, reported during spring break, is distinct from the first three and that there is no common source linking the two groups of incidents.

In an increasingly competitive job market, young professionals are turning to the resources of networking, and Career Services is showing them how to do it. Yesterday afternoon, a small crowd gathered in the living room of Civic House in order to discuss the art of networking, in an event sponsored by Career Services entitled "Networking - Launching a Career in the Public Interest Sector.

College senior Eric Karlan came to Penn knowing that he wanted to study nonfiction and creative writing. And when he found out that the University does not offer a specific writing major, Karlan decided to create his own. With nearly 60 departments to choose from, it is hard to imagine that the College of Arts and Sciences doesn't offer a major for everyone.

This Hey Day, the Class of 2009 will greet the current juniors not with condiments but with a raised glass. The Senior and Junior Class Boards have established what they hope will become a new tradition with the "Final Toast," an event that aims to welcome the outgoing seniors into the alumni community while at the same time celebrating the incoming seniors.