The first student diagnosed with meningococcal infection last Thursday was discharged from the hospital today, and the other two students are both doing well, according to Student Health Services officials. The second student has been moved from the Intensive Care Unit to another room in the hospital, and the third is expected to leave the ICU as soon as a bed in another ward becomes available, SHS director Evelyn Wiener said.

The Dean's Advisory Board believes Penn students can change the world, and is creating a new International Development minor to help. Last spring, the DAB conducted a survey on Locust Walk asking students about their academic experiences. Feedback showed significant interest in international development.

The upcoming renovations to DuBois College House mark yet another step in Penn's college house makeover. In the past 10 years, about $325 million have been devoted to improving on-campus residences. Throughout the renovations, all college houses have received new security, sprinklers and fire alarms and laundry-facility upgrades, among other things, according to Business Services Executive Director Douglas Berger.

These days, it only comes around once in a blue moon -- like fresh bagels at Hill House brunch or a Philadelphia championship. The stars have aligned, however, to give meaning to a rivalry that hasn't seen real action since a heart-pounding Penn comeback over the Tigers in 2005, when Quakers faithful rushed the court after their team rallied from an 18-point second-half deficit at the Palestra.

It was busy last week on Capitol Hill and in Philadelphia. In one room on the Hill, the House Financial Services committee grilled eight banking chiefs on how they used their portions of the $700 billion bailout. Down the hall, a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee vainly tried to get some answers from Stewart Parnell, the president of Peanut Corporation of America, the company responsible for shipping tainted peanut-based products across the country.

Penn received slightly more regular-decision applications for the class of 2013 than in past years, while the total number of applicants remained about steady, the Admissions office announced this week. The University received 19,179 regular-decision applications, up slightly from last year's 19,023.

The Undergraduate Assembly saw its largest turnout yet this semester at Sunday's debate on the recent decision to update the current Information Systems and Computing calendar rather than endorse DormNoise as the official University-wide calendar system. While DormNoise - created by Wharton sophomore and UA member Jay Rodrigues - functions as a social networking Web site with a built-in calendar, ISC would rework the Penn calendar system on Penn Portal.

U.S. Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) has had a busy couple of weeks in Washington and is making a stop at Penn to talk about it. Specter - who is one of the most senior members of the Senate, having served five consecutive terms since his election in 1980 - will address students and faculty at 3:30 p.

Random selection is no friend of mine. I've been signing up for preceptorials since I was a freshman, and I have yet to be among the chosen few in the small, non-credit courses that get lauded as a major selling point for the University. My first disappointment came after I registered for a Harry Potter discussion in 2005, and I don't expect to land a spot in wine or cheese tasting this semester.

Ilana Millner is an College junior from Washington Crossing, Pa. Her e-mail address is millner@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Last night, students and community members gathered to learn more about the candidates for the Office of Philadelphia District Attorney. Four of the five candidates participated in a panel which took place at Claudia Cohen Hall yesterday: Seth Williams, Michael Turner, Dan McElhatton and Brian Grady.

In a positive step toward becoming more labor-friendly, the Penn Bookstore recently announced its intent to market and sell an apparel line made with labor standards exceeding the ones currently set by Penn, at the recommendation of the Worker Rights Consortium.

For those who may not want to get a flu shot, a video starring employees at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania - "Baby be Wise, Immunize" - may make them reconsider. College junior Ryan Leonard and Mel Kearney , an occupational medicine nurse at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, produced the video last fall to raise awareness about flu vaccines.

In one of the best Penn-Princeton games in years, the Quakers held on to beat their arch rivals, 62-55, in overtime. Penn jumped out to a 9-2 lead behind a hard-nosed layup by Harrison Gaines and 5 quick points on jumpers by Tyler Bernardini. Princeton recovered quickly with a three-pointer by Dan Mavraides and a lay-up by center Pawel Buczak that sparked a 8-0 run.

Legal Studies and Business Ethics professor Kevin Werbach has recently returned from his position as the co-leader of the Federal Communications Commission review in President Barack Obama's transition team. He sat down with The Daily Pennsylvanian to discuss his role on the transition team.

Nicole Korczykowski, '01 Wharton and College alumna, is listed among those killed in the Continental Flight 3407 crash near Buffalo, N.Y., this past Thursday. The commuter airplane was carrying 49 people en route from Newark, N.J., to Buffalo. The plane crashed into a home in Clarence Center, N.

Without much firepower on offense, there's a surefire way to tell whether the Penn women's basketball team will win or lose. When the Quakers allow their opponents to score at least 50 points in a game, they have a woeful 2-14 record. Going into this weekend's home games against Brown and Yale, the team had held opponents to less than 50 points in a game only three times.