"Cancer never sleeps, so tonight neither will we." This was the motto of the 1,774 participants in Penn's 2009 Relay for Life this weekend. This year's Relay for Life, an annual event that raises money for the American Cancer Society, involved 171 teams and raised over $150,000.

It was in a conversation with a friend that 2007 alumnus Cho Kim, now a graduate student in the School of Social Policy and Practice, heard about the Davis Projects for Peace Foundation. Kim took one day to formulate his idea to win the $10,000 grant and one more day to write the proposal for the foundation, which grants students funding for projects to be implemented this summer. He received the award on March 16.

Grabbing a quick meal before class or going to dinner with friends is now easier for many students with thinning wallets. Local restaurants and businesses are offering students recession specials in an effort to bring in more business at a time when financial concerns are a priority.

The collapse of Ruckus has left the Undergraduate Assembly searching for a new way to legally distribute music on campus. Choruss, a new blanket licensing system that bills universities based on the amount of music students download and distributes the money to content owners, could potentially make that goal happen.

Psychology professor Lori Flanagan-Cato researches brain hormone activity in Penn's Psychology Department where she employs two graduate students and four undergraduates. When she started her research, the National Institutes of Health - Penn's primary grantor of research money for the School of Medicine and science programs - granted her a First Award for new researchers and then a five-year Research Project grant, which supports health-related research.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton doesn't spend all her time chatting with interns - but College senior Rafaela Zuidema will still have a good chance of seeing her around the office this summer. Zuidema will start work in the State Department just one week after graduating, providing day-to-day support to Clinton in the Office of the Secretariat.

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.