While Spring Fling might mean a break for Penn students, it means extra work for Penn Police. The Division of Public Safety plans to increase the number of officers on patrol this weekend because of the increase in guests for Fling, Capt. Gerald Leddy, special events coordinator at DPS, said.

Rachit Shukla wanted to prove he could start a functioning company in 24 hours. So, he did it. Last week, Shukla, who graduated from Wharton in December, launched the humor T-shirt site StartupWear.com overnight, "just for fun," he said. At Penn, Shukla is not alone in joining the Internet start-up culture.

After much delay, the South Street Bridge Replacement Project finally appears poised to begin - but community members are still trying to assert their views about the project. Community members have been critical of the design put forth by the city, and last month the South Street Bridge Coalition commissioned urban planning firm Wallace Roberts & Todd L.

Despite the heavy chance of rain over Spring Fling weekend, the show will go on, according to SPEC. "It's going to go on rain or shine," said College sophomore and Fling co-chairwoman Dasha Barannik who is running the operations for the weekend festivities.

It's finally that time of year again - time to celebrate the largest college party on the East Coast. Since 1973, Spring Fling has been the ultimate student event at Penn. The weekend festivities began as a final stress-reliever before students headed to exams.

Twelve graduate students were chosen to represent more than 11,000 of their peers Wednesday night when the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly elected its 2008-2009 Executive Board. The Board will be led by School of Medicine student Andrew Rennekamp.

In this year's U.S. News and World Report rankings of graduate programs, Penn's numbers stayed fairly steady. The Graduate School of Education, which experienced the biggest drop last year from seventh to 11th, rose one spot this year to 10th. The Engineering, Medical and Law Schools each fell one spot, to 30th, fourth and seventh, respectively.

Former Senator and presidential hopeful Mike Gravel wants to empower you. He also wants to get rid of the IRS, institute a "Fair Tax" program and change America's relationship with Iran. And he wants you to buy his book, "Citizen Power: A Mandate for Change," in which he outlines how citizens, once empowered, will take back their rights.

Burglary March 28 - Several computers, valued at $3,600, were reportedly removed from a secured office within Stemmler Hall, located at 3450 Hamilton Walk, at about 8:30 a.m. March 29 - A male unaffiliated with the University of unknown age reported that an unknown suspect removed cash from his secured hotel room while he was away from his room at the University City Sheraton, located at 3549 Chestnut St.

The sounds, speed and adrenaline of racing could sum up the atmosphere in Levine Hall on Tuesday when Penn's Formula SAE team unveiled its car for this year's competition. Formula SAE is an annual competition between colleges and universities worldwide. Teams have approximately one year to build a car and then compete with other teams on the race day.

The Princeton Review has decided to void a number of responses from Penn for the company's annual guidebook due to worries about perceived bias. The company made the decision after The Daily Pennsylvanian reported that the Admissions office did not seek a random sample of students to respond to the survey, despite a request to do so from the Princeton Review, said Robert Franek, the author of the Princeton Review's Best 366 Colleges.

With only weeks left until the end of the academic year, JPMorgan Chase, the investment firm that acquired Bear Stearns last month, has started rescinding offers made last fall for summer internships and full-time positions. But the investment firm is not leaving students completely empty-handed.

On Monday, a judge sealed documents that reveal the identity of the person whose lungs Tony Grier received during a transplant at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania two years ago. The lungs were cancerous and eventually killed Grier. His mother, Emma Grier, is now suing HUP.

When Graduate School of Education professor John Fantuzzo and his wife moved to their new home six years ago, they had to adjust a bit to their new neighbors: the more than 1,500 students living in the Quadrangle. "At first we felt we were on a different planet," he said.

Saxophone musicians today still try to emulate one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time - John Coltrane. Yesterday at Kelly Writers House, jazz critic and Philadelphia native Francis Davis discussed Coltrane's life and music in a review of his upcoming book, Sheets of Sound.

A plea deal is likely in the works for former Marketing professor Scott Ward, who is facing child-pornography charges. Ward, 65, is awaiting arraignment on two counts of transporting child pornography and one count of giving a false statement to a governmental agency.

Next week, Penn will have the opportunity to witness the "Colbert bump, " as the popular Comedy Central show, The Colbert Report, will film at the Annenberg Center for Performing Arts next Monday through Thursday nights. In a telephone interview with the show's host, Stephen Colbert, the Daily Pennsylvanian had the chance to ask Colbert about his views on filming at Penn, his job and the Pennsylvania primary.