John Lennon sang "Imagine" with the hopes of delivering a positive message of peace throughout the world. And in his new book, Defending Identity, Natan Sharansky seeks to deliver that same message - but instead by emphasizing the indispensable role of identity in protecting democracy.

The seniors have found a way to make the most out of the shortest month of the year: Feb Club. The month-long celebration is a seniors-only series of social activities, which occur at least daily - and sometimes twice-daily - throughout February. Events take place everywhere from bars to sporting arenas to campus productions like the Mask and Wig show.

Compared with freshmen in the United States as a whole, Penn's class of 2012 is more ethnically and geographically diverse, according to the Office of Undergraduate Admissions' Web site. The Chronicle of Higher Education's recent poll, which surveyed first-year full-time students at four-year universities, depicted predominantly white, middle-class freshmen studying within roughly 100 miles of their hometowns.

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According to Khaled Toameh, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has been "going in the wrong direction ever since the peace process started." Toameh, an award-winning Israeli-Arab journalist, spoke on Monday in Houston Hall's Hall of Flags about the situation in the Middle East.

For Colia Clark, coins jingling in a change purse symbolized the relationship between economics and governmental policy. Clark, a representative of the National Assembly to End the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and Occupations and one of four speakers in a discussion this Saturday in the Bodek Lounge of Houston Hall, waved her coin purse in the air to illustrate a main point of the event: the interconnectedness of the global economy and American foreign policy.

In Penn's College Houses, Resident Advisors coordinate ice-breaking games for students, but mavericks, the Radian's equivalent of RAs, get the party started for their residents. Last Friday, the Radian's inhabitants had the chance to start their night on the 11th floor club room at a Radian-sponsored "pregame."

Over 13 million e-mail addresses are part of a listserve that could change America - or at least, that's what President Barack Obama hopes. Obama announced on Jan. 17 that his grassroots campaign network will be transformed into Organizing for America, offering volunteers the opportunity to improve their communities and support policy in Washington.

Temple University students may not have insomnia, but beginning next week they will have Insomnia Cookies.

The Philadelphia Police Department recently increased the number of targeted police districts from nine to 12, which will include heavier patrolling just north of Penn's campus. Despite the city's budget problems, the 16th, 23rd and 24th districts were added to the list of high-crime areas slated for extra focus in response to spikes in violent crimes.

In a press conference on Friday, the Philadelphia Police announced an increase in the reward for the arrest and prosecution of the man who sexually assaulted two Penn students in an armed home invasion on Dec. 19. The new reward is $20,000. The suspect is described as a black man in his mid- to late-20s, about 6 foot tall and of average build and with short black hair and a goatee.

If your boss invited you to help him paint his house on a Saturday afternoon, would you accept? Studies show that more than 80 percent of Americans would decline, while only about 30 percent of Chinese citizens would say no. This is one of the challenges that 1985 Wharton alumnus Simon MacKinnon, president of Corning, Inc.

A makeshift headquarters consumes the empty hotel ballroom, where a row of business-clad individuals quickly type resolutions addressing Colombian drug trafficking and current tensions between Israel and Palestine. But this is not some top-secret government agency - this is the Ivy League Model United Nations Conference's operational room, also known as "Ops.

The closure of the South Street Bridge threw a wrench into the daily routines of many Penn athletes. But with the new Weave Pedestrian Bridge, they will now make it to practice on time. The bridge - which opened to the public on Jan. 19 and is part of the Penn Connects initiative - spans from the Amtrak Northeast Corridor train lines to Hollenback Center and the athletic fields to the south.

The Penn women's basketball team fell to 0-3 in the Ivy League and 3-14 overall with an ugly 56-39 loss to Dartmouth With Carrie Biemer in for only nine minutes in the first half due to foul trouble, Penn struggled mightily offensively and trailed 21-15 at halftime.

Bedridden patients at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania might be surprised to find a strange man walk into their rooms, guitar in hand, and play uplifting soft rock. But that's all in a day's work for members of WXPN's Musicians on Call program, a charity organization whose bedside performances have brightened the lives of over 15,000 patients at four area hospitals.

Philadelphia Police are still investigating a shooting that occurred on the 3900 block of Ludlow Street Monday night. They have no suspects at this time, a spokesman said. A man and a woman were taken into Philadelphia Police custody for questioning on Monday night, according to Division of Public Safety spokeswoman Stef Cella.