Some schools have been left in the lurch after Wachovia's announcement last week that it would freeze $9.3 billion in funds for nearly 1,000 colleges and universities across the country, but Penn will not be one of them. Wachovia had been managing a short-term cash fund for the management firm Commonfund, but froze the account last week after resigning its position as a trustee.

Last Sunday's weekly meeting of the Undergraduate Assembly continued a push to get an extra day of move-out for students, among other issues. In this week's Penn Student Government Spotlight showcase the Social Planning and Events Committee told UA members that the Concerts committee is $50,000 over its annual budget after spending $35,000 on the fall 2007 concerts and $400,000 on last year's annual Spring Fling concert, which featured Ludacris, Gym Class Heroes, and OK Go.

How much do you really know about Penn's endowment? It's big, though not as big as Harvard's or Yale's. But, even after a 3.9-percent drop leaving it at $6.3 billion, it's more money than most students will ever see. And it's heavily invested in a variety of "asset classes.

If you're up late studying this week and want that late-night dose of caffeine, you'll have to look somewhere other than Penn Dining Services. The stores underneath 1920 Commons - which include Starbucks, Subway, Top That!, Jamba Juice and the C3 convenience store - have changed their operating hours They now close at 9:30 p.

After sharing his tales of war-time reporting and primary-debate moderating, CNN host Anderson Cooper left Irvine Auditorium full of captivated students eager to learn more. With the same mission in mind, The Daily Pennsylvanian sat down with Cooper for a few minutes to discuss reporting, politics and his lack of culinary skills.

As his campaign wraps up a vigorous voter registration drive in Pennsylvania, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama spoke on Friday in Montgomery County - a region closely divided between registered Republicans and Democrats. Yet nearly one-third of Obama's 6,000 audience members on Friday will not vote in November.

Ramifications from the troubled credit markets touched home last week as the University found $100,000 it had invested in a short-term fund managed by Wachovia Bank had been frozen, according to Executive Vice President Craig Carnaroli. The money was held by Commonfund, a nonprofit management firm for educational investments.

Bruce Springsteen has spent his life writing music on the American dream. Now, he says, Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama is the man who can make that dream a reality. On Saturday, Springsteen, the legendary singer and songwriter also known as "The Boss," performed in downtown Philly for a free public concert on behalf of Obama in the final push before today's voter registration deadline.

Sen. Obama visited Abignton High School in Abington, P.A. this past Friday to address his plans for national education and push voters to register before the October 6th deadline.

Sister Pauline Silver Acayo, a Catholic Relief Services' Peacebuilding Officer in Uganda, spoke at Leadership Hall on Friday to discuss the current peacebuilding efforts in Uganda. Acayo has been working as a Peacebuilding Officer in Uganda since 2002. She started her presentation with the background of Uganda.

This year, students are clicking their way toward a more interactive classroom environment, though some think the costs outweigh the benefits. This semester is the first in which many School of Arts and Sciences professors are requiring students to purchase "clickers" - small devices that allow professors to collect and display data from students during class time.

That 9 a.m. math class just got a little better. Three lecture halls in the David Rittenhouse Laboratory will be renovated next summer. Rooms A1, A2 and A4 will be renovated in time for the fall semester. While A1 will become a 240-seat classroom, the capacity of A2 and A4 will be increased to 80 seats each.

Fifteen year-old Logan Levkoff's parents pulled out bananas and condoms one evening in 1991- - during the onset of the AIDS crisis. Her parents declared, "You are going to learn how to do this," and from that night on Levkoff has been educating peers, parents and pupils about sex.

You may know him best as the Silver Fox. Or as the host of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360. But he prefers to be known simply as Anderson, a non-partisan news anchor who considers himself privileged to have his job - a job he did not know that he would want upon his 1989 graduation from Yale as a political science major.

"Look around this room," said Samuel Griffin, president of the male singing group the Orpheus Club of Philadelphia. "We are Bruce's children, we will carry on what he did . he will be there everywhere we are." Bruce Montgomery's impact on the Penn community as the school's longtime director of musical activities was the theme his memorial service yesterday.

"If Botswana does not tackle its AIDS problem head on, then the country will not survive," announced then President of Botswana Festus Mogae in 2000. Now, at the end of Mogae's decade-long presidency earlier this year, Botswana is at the forefront of the continent's battle with AIDS.

The long road to a university presidency has been getting longer. According to a recent survey, the amount of time it takes to progress through the ranks of academia is increasing, resulting in older presidents, said Jacqueline King, the assistant vice president of the Center for Policy Analysis of the American Council on Education.