In an address to students yesterday, Chunmiao Zheng posed China's milion-dollar question - how do you supply 20 percent of the world's population with only 7 percent of the Earth's water resources? Yesterday afternoon at the Carolyn Hoff Lynch Auditorium, Zheng, professor of hydrogeology at the University of Alabama, explored the issue of China's mounting water scarcity in a talk entitled, "Will China Run Out of Water?" His final answer: Not likely for the country as a whole, he said, although he added that certain regions were more vulnerable to distress than others.

The Mexican cuisine at Penn has no borders. The opening of Chipotle last month added to the variety of Mexican restaurants scattered around campus to satiate a spicy palate. But despite this new competition, officials say business at other Mexican establishments in the area has not been negatively affected.

Although most students will recognize her as the first female U.S. Secretary of State or the highest ranking woman in U.S. government at the time, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has not let her past position define her. Given her long history of dedication to international affairs, the Social Planning and Events Committee Connaissance subcommittee chose Albright as this spring's keynote speaker.

The total number of crimes in the Penn Patrol Zone in January 2009 is the same as this month in 2008. Although the total number stayed fixed at 60, crimes against people increased from five to eight and crimes against property decreased from 55 to 52, according to the Division of Public Safety.

Two students have been hospitalized with meningitis, according to a University-wide e-mail sent out Thursday afternoon. One student is in stable treatment and is being treated. The other student is in critical condition.

The spirit of Juicy Campus, the infamous online gossip site that shut down last Thursday, lives on. In its place comes CollegeACB.com, or the College Anonymous Confession Board, which seeks to give "students the freedom to voice their opinions and ask questions about any facet of college life," according to a press release on the Web site.

Theft Feb. 3 - A female student, 22, reported at about 8 p.m. that an unknown suspect removed the tire from her bicycle, which was secured outside Harnwell College House. Feb. 3 - A male student, 18, reported at about 7:15 p.m. that someone removed his unsecured bicycle from outside Gregory College House, located at 3909 Spruce St.

"If your vagina got dressed, what would it wear?" So asks one performer in Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues - the popular play that is part of a global movement to stop violence against women and girls, now in its tenth year running at Penn. The name of that global movement is "V-Day," where "V" stands for "Victory," "Valentine" and "Vagina.

Despite the Undergraduate Assembly's rejection of preceptorial funding for this year's annual wine-tasting class, the Preceptorials Committee has no sour grapes on its palate. During last year's UA budget meeting, the group opposed the costly wine preceptorial, decreasing funding allocated to the group from $13,000 the previous year to $11,500.

A degree from the University of Pennsylvania may be a meal ticket after all. Last night in the Fisher Fine Arts Library, Joel Berg, author of All You Can Eat, addressed the nature and history of "food insecurity" in America to a large and enthusiastic audience.

When telling the President wasn't enough, the sponsors of a petition on the economy sent a message to the future leaders of the country instead. Yesterday, The Cato Institute, a Washington-based think tank, placed ads in 15 student newspapers across the United States, including The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Educational institutions may not receive as much aid as they originally thought, due to a revised version of the economic-stimulus bill passed by the U.S. Senate yesterday. The Senate's bill allocates $83 billion for public schools and higher education, only about half as much as the original $150 billion approved by the House of Representatives in late January.

President Barack Obama announced last Wednesday that the government will cap annual salaries at $500,000 for top administrators at companies that receive large amounts of federal stimulus money. The new policy, however, will not affect the annual salaries of college presidents - including that of President Amy Gutmann - whose universities are among the possible recipients of federal funds.

Rich Ross, president of Disney Channels worldwide and 1983 Penn alumnus, will visit Huntsman Hall at 4:30 today to guide students to and discuss future prospects in the entertainment industry. Ross has been coming back to Penn for the last 15 years to share his knowledge with students.

Tonight is the first of Mayor Michael Nutter's budget workshops, run in collaboration with Penn Project for Civic Engagement to help get public input on budget decisions. All Philadelphia residents are invited to attend. Nutter announced the Workshops Jan.

College senior Alexander Jacobs has been awarded a 2009 Gates Cambridge Scholarship. The History major from New York City will begin a master's program in history, philosophy and sociology of science, technology and medicine at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom this October.

Despite concerns that the economic downturn would impede the number of free 10-day excursions Taglit-Birthright Israel could offer students this year, program directors say Penn-based trips will continue as usual. For the past decade, groups like Penn Hillel and Jewish Heritage Project have run the trips, which are sponsored by Birthright.