As the semester winds down, I want to take this opportunity to reflect on how we've been doing and to answer some concerns recently brought up by readers. Looking ahead to the fall, we will continue to encourage greater reader participation. We really do appreciate it when readers get in touch with us, especially to offer an opposing point of view.

"Harambe" - Swahili for "come together as one" - is the theme of a new organization working to implement technology and business proposals to further develop the economies of 10 sub-Saharan African countries. The Harambe Endeavor - an alliance of 60 students studying at colleges and universities across the country, including Penn, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University - will create partnerships with students and future leaders in Africa.

With both skyrocketing theft on campus and economic troubles making local and national headlines, the relationship between the two has come into question. As rates of property crime have been rising across the across the nation, some experts have pointed to a link between the state of the economy and crime.

It's hard to miss the Penn Relays. Last weekend, hundreds of the top track and field athletes in North America descended upon West Philadelphia, lining the streets with yellow schoolbuses. The smell of Jamaican beef patties and other sidewalk treats wafted contagiously through the air as throngs of tourists and team supporters crowded Penn's campus to take in the sights.

Just because the political circus has left Pennsylvania, the race for the Democratic primary isn't over - and for some students, the hard work is just beginning. Whether it's traveling across the country as the remaining nine contests are decided or staying in Philadelphia to organize volunteers, several Penn students plan to spend their summers working with a presidential campaign.

Amira Fawcett is an Engineering junior from Houston, TX. Her e-mail address is fawcett@dailypennsylvanian.com.w

Art and abortion revisited To the Editor: In "Risking Women's Rights for Art" (4/23/08), Mara Gordon states that Shvarts' actions were "well within her rights" but that "she owes the millions of women for whom abortion is an important option a little more respect than this.

Looking for a new laptop? Forget those fancy gizmos at Computer Connection. Just north of Market Street, I spotted a hole-in-the-wall electronics store called the Super Computer Center, hosting a sidewalk sale at Depression-era rates. Old-school computers for $100.

Luis Yanez and Kimdo Bethel are pictures in contrast. Yanez is a 5-foot-3, 106-pound 19-year-old, who, at first glance, looks about as threatening as a lapdog. Bethel, a thick 200-some pounds, has biceps as large as logs and cuts an imposing figure even when sitting down.

Next year, Penn should be a little bit greener with the recent announcement that Dan Garofalo will be the University's first-ever sustainability coordinator. Garofalo - currently senior facilities planner at the Office of the University Architect - will be responsible for forming Penn's strategy to minimize waste, make transportation more environmentally friendly and conserve energy throughout campus.

Sometimes a goal is worth more than one point and a save is worth more than one off the board. That was the case Sunday, when the now top-ranked Penn women's lacrosse team used a late first-half goal by Allison Ambrozy and a crucial save by Sarah Waxman to stay within two goals of then-No.

A new software program is on the market to try to help universities increase the diversity of their admitted classes while avoiding discrimination litigation. The program, Applications Quest, sorts students whom admissions officers have already deemed as qualified for admission into clusters of similar applicants based on a number of factors, such as hometown, major, GPA, race and legacy status.

Can't use up all your meals? You're not alone. Penn's meal plan system has long been a source of dissatisfaction among students, whose complaints range from the high price of plans to dining halls' limited hours of operation. And as the semester comes to a close, students are often left with dozens of unused meals.

College students socialize 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and one Penn student wants to create a Web site to make interacting with peers even easier. DormNoise.com - which will launch this June - is a college exclusive social-networking Web site created by Wharton freshman Jay Rodrigues.

As Delta Sigma Theta's "Devastating Divas" stomped into the spotlight of Irvine Auditorium's stage Saturday night, they were greeted by the screams and cheers of a sold-out audience. The Devastating Divas were a part of "Stomping On the Yard," a national step show and scholarship competition that involves over a million students belonging to nine fraternal organizations called "The Divine Nine.

The Undergraduate Assembly elected College sophomore Claire Choi as its new secretary for the 2008-2009 executive board last night. Choi won in a vote of nine to eight against College sophomore Benny Laitman. "I hope we can reach out and make more in-person efforts for publicity," said Choi, who added that she was looking forward to forming both a communications and a social committee as well as issuing UA press releases.

The American health-care system is under-equipped to serve the rapidly aging generation of baby boomers, according to a recent report from the Institute of Medicine, and medical schools must step up. While some schools, like Penn, have developed programs to improve training in geriatric medicine, it's still a challenge to get students to specialize in the field.