When it comes to studying until the wee hours of the morning at Van Pelt, many students have found that more really is merrier.

The University's priority is to advocate for students, not do the RIAA's legal work.

The School of Arts and Sciences has scaled back this year's faculty recruiting efforts due to unprecedented success last year, and some officials say smaller academic programs are feeling the squeeze the worst. According to Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Dennis DeTurck, Penn's recruitment and retention efforts last year were more successful than administrators had anticipated.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - He may not look it, but Penn Trustee George Weiss is akin to a fairy godmother - well, almost. Weiss wears a suit and tie instead of a wand and wings, but he and other supporters of undergraduate financial aid at the University make wishes come true by providing scholarships for hundreds of Penn students each year.

With a serendipitous calm before the year's biggest rainstorm, students across Penn put their license to Fling to good use. Although the forecasts predicted cold weather and a 30-percent chance of rain on Saturday, most of the two-day carnival was marked by sunny skies and cool but pleasant weather.

Penn women's track coach Gwen Harris didn't even know that she had seven first-place finishes. "Really?" she said. "Wow. I knew we did well but . wow, great." It might have been just too many to count as the Penn women scored 81 points at Princeton on Saturday, coming in first and beating track powerhouses Princeton and Yale.

Two loss columns read zero at the end of the weekend. The Penn women's tennis team extend its Ivy win streak to 5-0, while the Quakers' Lauren Sadaka kept her own undefeated run in the spring alive. Harvard and Dartmouth were no match for the Quakers, both falling by 7-0 margins.

Marissa Rosen and Lizzie Lowe found the confines of the NCAA East Regional less accomodating than cozy Hutchinson Gymnasium. Two of Penn's best gymnasts, Rosen and Lowe, competed against the nation's best Saturday at the NCAA Northeast Regionals at the University of Michigan.

Penn Police shot an alleged carjacker twice at about 11:00 a.m. today. He was taken to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and died from the gunshot wounds at about 12:40 p.m.

There is a first time for everything, including becoming a giant-killer. Annie Kinsey helped deliver it to Penn in a big way. Kinsey hit two big home runs in the second game of the Quakers' doubleheader against division-leading Cornell Saturday, as Penn took the second game 6-5.

The prosecution will not make the murder trial of Economics professor Rafael Robb a capital case, meaning the death penalty will not be an option in sentencing, Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce Castor told The Associated Press last week. Prosecutors decided not to seek the death penalty because they have not found aggravating circumstances that would make that sentence appropriate.

On a campus littered with overachievers, it's easy to lose the worth ethic that got students to Penn in the first place.

After his team began the year 1-7, Jason Pinsky was tired of hearing about how Penn couldn't win. "Everyone has been doubting us this whole year saying, 'you guys are losing every match,'" he said. "But we played eight top-20 teams in the country. As of now, it's really paying off.

60Millions of student records in a database that some lawmakers hope to block loan companies from accessing. Source: The Washington Post

After being picked to finish dead last in the Ivy League in Baseball America's preseason poll, the Quakers felt they had a lot to show to an audience that was convinced Penn wouldn't improve from last season. But if any doubts remained about the team's talent, they should be silenced after this weekend.

Penn saw seven years of frustration erased this weekend. The women's rowing team breezed past their competition, winning all five races on Saturday and both trophies in the Class of '89 Plate. The team traveled to New Brunswick, N.J. to compete against Rutgers and Cornell.

When you've got a problem in Philadelphia, who you gonna call? Why, Bob Brady, of course. This mayoral candidate has made a career out of bringing people together and ending disputes between competing groups, first as the local Democratic Party chairman and then as the congressman representing Pennsylvania's first congressional district.