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Four thousand dollars per minute, or a total of $1.72 million over the course of seven hours- that's how much money the Undergraduate Assembly allocated to various student-government groups at its annual budget meeting this past Sunday evening. An increase of 6 percent from last year's budget, the $1.


Kym Rohn-Taylor never knew if she would have the chance to board an airplane. The Franklin Field security guard has an aversion to flying, and last year she underwent breast-cancer surgery. But now she's back at work, and later this week she'll be up in the sky, off to California.

When the Penn softball team travels to Delaware for a doubleheader tomorrow, coach Leslie King will be banking on none of her players getting hurt. No coach wants injuries, but the Quakers are in a particularly precarious situation. At full strength, King's squad consists of 14 players.

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By Emily Garrett · March 4, 2008

Hospital patients who experience cardiac arrests are more likely to die during nights and weekends compared with the daytime, according to a recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. This report raises questions about the differences between the care received in emergency rooms during regular working hours and the graveyard shifts.



They're bringing their biggest fan

Kym Rohn-Taylor never knew if she would have the chance to board an airplane. The Franklin Field security guard has an aversion to flying, and last year she underwent breast-cancer surgery. But now she's back at work, and later this week she'll be up in the sky, off to California.


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When the Penn softball team travels to Delaware for a doubleheader tomorrow, coach Leslie King will be banking on none of her players getting hurt. No coach wants injuries, but the Quakers are in a particularly precarious situation. At full strength, King's squad consists of 14 players.


For Penn InTouch, a refresh is on the way

Fall course selection is coming soon, and that means it's time to sign back on to Penn InTouch. But don't complain just yet - a new course-search and schedule-planning tool will be launched on PennPortal and Penn InTouch on March 17. The tool - which will allow students to search for courses and plan mock schedules - will be available for use in preparation for the fall 2008 class term, which students can begin registering for on March 24.


A more interactive artistic experience

Yale University is home to the oldest college art gallery in the United States, with over 185,000 pieces from all over the world, ancient and modern alike. But until recently, it didn't receive much foot traffic. As the Deputy Director for Programs and External Affairs and Curator of Artist Initiatives and Special Projects at the Yale Art Gallery, Anna Hammond is largely responsible for increasing the collection's visibility among students.


Rookie of the Year? Must be the bra

Michael Jordan wore his North Carolina shorts under his Chicago Bulls uniform. Wade Boggs ate the same kind of chicken before every game. Patrick Roy talked to his goalposts because they were his "friends." And then there's Quakers lacrosse midfielder Ali DeLuca.


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Basketball is just a game for most, a hobby for some and a job for others. But for Penn's Anca Popovici and Drexel's Gabriela Marginean, basketball offered something more. It was a plane ticket to the U.S., a way to continue their educations and to represent their country.


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After the online newspaper Inside HigherEd reported in January that Wharton MBA Admissions officer Judith Hodara was consulting for a Japanese admissions firm and also owned a consulting business catering to high-school students, observers and members of the higher-education community quickly labeled the activities as a conflict of interest.


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'It Rhymes with Pumpkin!" "Getting down to business!" "The Asian Sensation!" With Student Government elections coming up, you are about to be bombarded with candidates' slogans. Chalked on the walk, hanging from trees, written on your friend's T-shirt, these catchy adages certainly vie for your eyes but also make it difficult to distinguish style from substance.


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Penn isn't biased To the Editor: I must admit that I don't fully understand David Back's comment on free speech. If his concern is that Penn is politically biased in its choice of high-profile speakers, I would remind him that Karl Rove, Bill Clinton and Senator John McCain have all spoken this academic year.


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Walking into the Penn Bookstore yesterday, I smiled to see the Campus Bestseller display. A prominent stripe of Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!) ran across it, three books wide and ten books in length. Below them, I spotted several copies of Susan Jacoby's just-released The Age of American Unreason.


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It is often said that college students tend to be overwhelmingly liberal - and it seems this is true of college professors as well. A recent study conducted by Penn State University professor Matthew Woessner and Elizabethtown College professor April Kelly-Woessner found that people who identify themselves as conservatives are simply less likely to pursue a doctorate.


A 'silent minority' no longer

The common perception of Asian American students as the "silent minority" is being broken down by student responses to some questionable comments made by students at a conference held two weeks ago. After attending this year's East Coast Asian-American Student Union conference at Cornell University, students at Penn have started an e-mail campaign to raise awareness about remarks made about the Asian-American community by senior administrators at Cornell.


Seniors bid farewell to Feb Club festivities

Hundreds of seniors gathered at Smokey Joe's Friday night to mark the end of the annual month-long celebration that is Feb Club. A chance for seniors to attend events on campus and throughout Philadelphia together, Feb Club has expanded since it took on its current form in 2004 of having multiple events during the month, Wharton senior and class president Puneet Singh said.


Cold weather, failed bunts doom Quakers

Baseball coach John Cole got exactly what he asked for when he scheduled the Quakers' home opener for February, the earliest it's been in years. Friday's scheduled doubleheader was delayed over 90 minutes because of frost on the infield dirt. When Penn and West Chester finally took the field at Meiklejohn Stadium to play only one game, it was 35 degrees.


A shot at love - with a grad student?

The gloomy days are over for graduate students who are single and ready to mingle. They can find their true love - at speed dating. The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly organized its first speed-dating event on Friday evening at the Graduate Student Center.


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With 14 seconds remaining and the score tied at North Carolina, Penn senior attacker Melissa Lehman made one final drive to the goal. She reared back and ripped off a shot. The ball bounced its way into the corner of net, giving Lehman a hat trick and the Penn women's lacrosse team an 8-7 win Saturday.