The search is officially on for Penn's next provost. In a memo sent out to faculty members last Wednesday, University President Amy Gutmann announced the formation of an ad hoc consultative committee that, along with Gutmann, will select a new provost to succeed Ron Daniels.

Guidance counselors, college advisers and high school seniors and their parents have long debated the value of college rankings. Now the Princeton Review and USA Today are joining the debate on value - by ranking which schools are among the top 10 "Best Value Colleges" in the U.

Cardiac arrest has a 70 to 80 percent mortality rate and affects almost half a million people per year. From CPR to faster emergency services, various methods have been used to lower those numbers. But according to a new Penn Medical School study, other factors need to be taken into account - research found that the survival rate of cardiac arrest patients also depends on where the patient is taken for care.

The Undergraduate Assembly held its first official meeting of the semester Sunday night, during which it reassessed last semester's projects and work done by UA members over winter break before launching into new issues. The main legislative proposals addressed included potentially low class attendance for today's presidential inauguration ceremonies and separate budget requests for UA funding by the pre-orientation programs PennArts and PennGreen.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy continues to live on in members of the Penn and greater Philadelphia communities. Last night, Alpha Kappa Alpha fraternity, the Multicultural Greek Council and Onyx Senior Honor Society hosted the annual candlelight vigil honoring MLK Jr.

At Chipotle, the line never ends. Yesterday the queue at the new restaurant stretched all the way out into the snow - an improvement over Thursday, when it extended outside to the Radian's front steps. Chipotle Mexican Grill held its grand opening on Friday, becoming the newest restaurant in the Radian apartment building at 3925 Walnut St.

Happy birthday, Ben Franklin. The Founder's Day Symposium commemorated Ben Franklin's 303rd birthday on Friday, capturing Franklin's values of "distinguished scholarship and global citizenship," said University President Amy Gutmann. The event consisted of a panel - moderated by Gutmann - of five academic specialists who spoke about environmental sustainability.

Best note-takers, worst note-takers, no-note-takers: take note. You could be making money - or making the grade - on GradeGuru.com, the file-sharing Web site that pays you to upload your notes and allows you to download the notes of your peers for free. If it sounds like an impossible business model, it's because the year-old site isn't bringing in any revenue just yet.

As prepared for delivery, provided by the Presidential Inaugural Committee. We are here to mark the beginning of our journey to Washington. This is fitting because it was here, in this city, that our American journey began. It was here that a group of farmers and lawyers, merchants and soldiers, gathered to declare their independence and lay claim to a destiny that they were being denied.

On a day when the world's attention was focused on Washington, D.C., members of the Penn community who were unable to make the 124-mile trip could still catch the inauguration action on Penn's campus. The University's official Presidential Inauguration Celebration Program began at 10 a.

Comedians may be more effective than politicians in addressing the tensions surrounding the current conflict in the Middle East. Noel Elgrably, Elham Jazab and Mike Batayeh, a group of Middle Eastern comedians who call themselves the Sultans of Satire, held a panel discussion Friday on the role of comedy in alleviating Islamophobia. The events were cosponsored by the Penn Middle East Center and the Levantine Cultural Center.

President-elect Barack Obama, his wife Michelle and their two daughters, Malia and Sasha, began their inaugural journey at 30th Street Station on Saturday morning. But unlike his other stops along the way, Obama did not hold a public event in the city. In his prepared remarks, Obama addressed the small gathering of ticketed supporters in a private room within the station, telling them it was fitting to begin his journey in Philadelphia because "it was here, in this city, that the American journey began.

Two separate leaks in a water line of the Quadrangle left residents without water for large parts of Tuesday and Wednesday - and plenty to say about it. The first water main break was identified last Friday, according to Jennifer Rizzi, a spokeswoman for Facilities and Real Estate Services.

By SARAH RYU Staff Writer ryu@dailypennsylvanian.com Faculty and staff are almost unanimous: the hiring freeze implemented by the School of Arts and Sciences is disheartening but necessary. Last December, in response to the current national economic crisis, SAS Dean Rebecca Bushnell sent an e-mail to SAS faculty and staff that entailed cost-cutting adjustments, such as departmental budget reductions and salary freezes.

The protests took place on College Green and Locust Walk.

The first floor of the Steinhardt Hillel building was flooded after a pipe froze and a sprinkler burst this morning, setting off the fire alarm.

"Just how valuable is Facebook "friendship?" Such is the question Burger King posed to Facebook users in its latest - but short-lived - advertising stunt. Calling it the "Whopper Sacrifice," the fast-food chain asked Facebook users to "de-friend" 10 people in exchange for a free Whopper.