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Last week, Penn announced that the much-anticipated updates to Penn InTouch will take place over the summer. The best part about this announcement of the long-overdue makeover - which will modernize the interface of the current layout - is the timeliness of the process.


The hole just keeps getting deeper for the baseball team. After dropping doubleheaders on the road to Brown and Yale this weekend, Penn has lost nine games in a row and remains winless in the Ivy League. Coach John Cole and the team did not make themselves available for comment.

After the buzz about the 2008 election died down on Locust Walk, nine Penn students followed the excitement to the District of Columbia for the Washington Semester Program - the study-abroad experience only a few states away. According to some program directors and participants, the combination of a new administration and a bad economy is spurring more interest in Washington for the Washington Semester Program opportunities.

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Wharton undergraduate Aaron Hand was arrested for allegedly making threats at Hill College House early Friday morning. He was charged with possession of an instrument of crime, making terroristic threats with the intent to terrorize another person, simple assault, recklessly endangering another person and harassment.

Students can take a little longer to clean out their rooms after finals next month. The move-out deadline for undergraduates living in on-campus housing has been extended five hours until 5 p.m. on May 13. Graduating seniors and students who receive housing extensions from Housing and Conference Services will be allowed to remain past the deadline.


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Students can take a little longer to clean out their rooms after finals next month. The move-out deadline for undergraduates living in on-campus housing has been extended five hours until 5 p.m. on May 13. Graduating seniors and students who receive housing extensions from Housing and Conference Services will be allowed to remain past the deadline.


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The hole just keeps getting deeper for the baseball team. After dropping doubleheaders on the road to Brown and Yale this weekend, Penn has lost nine games in a row and remains winless in the Ivy League. Coach John Cole and the team did not make themselves available for comment.


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After the buzz about the 2008 election died down on Locust Walk, nine Penn students followed the excitement to the District of Columbia for the Washington Semester Program - the study-abroad experience only a few states away. According to some program directors and participants, the combination of a new administration and a bad economy is spurring more interest in Washington for the Washington Semester Program opportunities.


Sarah Cantin | Moving beyond sex-violence stereotypes

Last Thursday evening was warm, and the energy at the rally portion of Take Back the Night was high. "Tonight is a night about emotions. However, there's one emotion we're not going to feel - fear!" proclaimed Kristie Thomas, a School of Social Policy & Practice doctoral student.


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Lauren Sadaka's match against Yale's Vicky Brook came down to a few points and some debatable calls. However, it didn't end in Sadaka's favor. She lost on a grueling tiebreaker, 4-6, 7-5, 10-6 - her only loss of the weekend in either singles or doubles. "[Lauren's] one of the greatest competitors we've ever had at Penn, and she's the inspiration for everyone else on our team," interim coach Sara Schiffman said.


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In its second Ivy League weekend of the season against Brown and Yale, the Penn softball team came away with a pair of firsts - its first three-game win streak of the season and the first collegiate home run for freshman Jamie Boccanfuso. "It was really exciting," Boccanfuso said of her three-run drive to center field that gave the Quakers the lead in game one against Brown in Providence, R.


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There are many faces of Peter Kuperman. The 1996 Penn alumnus is a San Francisco hedge fund manager by day and a chef by night; he created a Facebook group aiming to fix the high-rise elevators and an internship program for Management and Technology students.


W. Lax | Spiro scorches Crimson

The individual matchup between Quakers junior Emma Spiro and Harvard sophomore Jess Halpern in Saturday's game exemplified the talent gap between the No. 3 Penn women's lacrosse team and the unranked Crimson. Coming into the contest, Halpern was Harvard's game-changer, with a team-leading 3.


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This election season, the Nominations and Elections Committee challenged students to "get out the vote." Almost half of the student population listened. With an unprecedented 49.77-percent voter turn-out and no violations filed, the NEC announced the names of candidates elected to the Undergraduate Assembly and Class Boards on Friday night.



M. Lax | Red and Blue collar Big Green attack

he sunshine near the end of Penn's Friday victory was perfectly timed. Unfortunately for any believers in fate, the Quakers' win was just a result of good defense. The Red and Blue played their best lacrosse in the second half, downing Dartmouth, 9-6, for their first Ivy win of the season and their first win of any kind since Feb.



Freshman residential program offers a new way to move out

Even though the freshman class has not yet moved out of a Penn dorm, one group thinks they can help students navigate the process. Penn Move Out, started this year by students in the Ware College House entrepreneurship residential program, wants to take care of student belongings over summer break.


Doubles trouble for M. Tennis after losses

For the men's tennis team, this weekend brought little but disappointment. After a loss to Princeton last weekend in their Ivy season opener, the Quakers lost two more league matches on the road this weekend. Friday they fell to Brown, 6-1, and Saturday they dropped a devastating 4-3 match to Yale.


Students light up the Rotunda

From sketches of fruit to paintings of llamas, the artwork showcased in the Rotunda Saturday afternoon was original and varied. The student-sponsored event was organized by the Penn Art Club and consisted of student musical performances and a gallery exhibition, both featuring work by over 40 talented Penn students.


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This weekend, Tri Delta sisters had a moment of Reflection - and felt better about themselves as a result. Reflections Body Image Program is a Tri Delta-based eating-disorder prevention program, created to improve body image among young women. The program began in 2007 with Carolyn Becker, a professor of psychology at Trinity University.


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Dow Advanced Materials, a chemical company formerly known as Rohm and Haas, recently donated an undisclosed six-figure amount to the School of Arts and Sciences' Department of Organizational Dynamics. The Rohm and Haas gift will be used over three years to create a concentration in Organizational Dynamics' Master of Philosophy and Master of Science programs and a sustainable development graduate certificate program.



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