After almost a year of hard work and often-heated debate, graduate students have at last unveiled the final version of their proposal for student government restructuring. The final proposal includes one General Assembly for the entire graduate-student community and a separate group made up of graduate students from the School of Arts and Sciences.

Penn's decision to award Aretha Franklin an honorary degree raises questions about the nature of the process.

Alicia Puglionesi is an College junior from Haverton, Pa. Her e-mail address is puglionesi@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Athletic director Bob Scalise and the Harvard athletic department fired long-time basketball coach Frank Sullivan at the beginning of the month. Now that he is gone, the Crimson have an exceptional opportunity to move their basketball program forward. Harvard needs to look at its program as one that needs to be revamped, not one that is on the precipice of greatness.

One side called it necessary to the advancement of science. The other compared it to killing nursing-home patients with an AK-47. Last night before an audience of about 80 people in the Bodek Lounge of Houston Hall, conservative pundit and author Ramesh Ponnuru and genetic-research advocate Eve Herold battled back and forth over the merits and pitfalls of embryonic stem cell research in "The Great Stem Cell Debate," sponsored by Penn for Life and Penn Students for Stem Cell Research.

If you haven't had it happen to you yet, it's probably because you just haven't been around here long enough. It's a question I dread, even home in Penn-centric Long Island. "Where do you go to school?" Often, it takes a long time to explain what exactly the University of Pennsylvania is, and where it is located, and most importantly, that it is not the same place as the very large school in State College, Pa.

During the final rounds of the last two NCAA 133-pound championships, one area made the difference for Matt Valenti. It was the senior's ability to ride his opponent in both of the bouts to garner the same result - a national title. "When you're able to ride somebody like I did for a full period, it really starts to take the wind out of the guy," Valenti said.

Fred Honebein learned everything he needed to know from Mike Spraklin in 16 words. "Technique will get you inches, training will get you meters, and motivation will get you miles," Spraklin, who was Honebein's coach during his time on the national team, said.

After the firestorm that characterized the removal of former heavyweight rowing coach Stan Bergman and the hiring of Fred Honebein to the position, things have seemed to cool off around Boathouse Row.

A 30-year-old male unaffiliated with the University was robbed at around 42nd and Sansom streets Thursday morning, Philadelphia and Penn Police officials said. The man, a taxi driver, parked his cab at about 7:00 a.m. and was walking toward his residence when he was approached by a male demanding money.

Long before her expected arrival, the audience had already packed the Kelly Writers House Seminar Room, buzzing with anticipation for Jamaica Kincaid's reading last evening. Best known for her lyrical prose that reflects the challenges of mother-daughter relationships and the effects of colonialism, Kincaid has written books including My Brother, Lucy, and The Autobiography of My Mother.

Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, who represented Pennsylvania in the Senate for 12 years, has joined the national law firm of Eckert, Seamans, Cherin & Mellott after failing to secure a third term in office in November. According to a press release, Santorum will provide business and strategic counseling services in the firm's Washington, D.

20Percent of the world's 10,000 freshwater fish and plant species that are either extinct or endangered. Source: The Associated Press

Colleen Donovan and her roommates aren't desperate yet, but give them time - it's only March. The four College juniors signed a June 1 lease for a house on the 3900 block of Delancey Street, but, come June, none of them expects to remain in Philadelphia. With internships lined up in New York City and Washington, the girls are currently taking on the not-so-small problem of how to pay this summer's rent while they're out of town.

With every winter workout, every early morning and every stroke in the water, the men's heavyweight and women's rowing teams are combatting uncertainty with confidence. Confidence. That's the key word that's been offered up by both men's coach Fred Honebein and women's coach Mike Lane.

Amira Fawcett is an Engineering sophomore from Houston, Texas. Her e-mail address is fawcett@dailypennsylvanian.com.

This week, in addition to 40 regulars, about 65 other students showed up to this week's UA meeting to hear a controversial, last-minute proposal brought to the UA by Hillel and the Penn Israel Coalition. The proposal called for the University to withdraw its sponsorship, via the Political Science department and the Middle East Center, of tonight's visit by Norman Finkelstein, a professor at DePaul University, who is coming to speak as part of Palestine Awareness Week.