About 60 people gathered Sunday night in Huntsman Hall for the weekly Undergraduate Assembly meeting. On the agenda: a contingency budget request, Locust Walk repairs, improvements to Penn InTouch and dining. n The senior class requested $1,000 additional funding to cover Senior Performing Arts Night and keep the event free for seniors.

Tickets for this year's Spring Fling concert - headlined by Ben Folds and prefaced with a set from Third Eye Blind - went quickly yesterday, the first day they were available on Locust Walk.

12Days that 1,400 faculty and staff members of Community College of Philadelphia were on strike.Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer

Much has been said about the close of this past basketball season being the "end of an era" for Penn hoops. That may be true, but it may turn out to be something equally important: the beginning of another era for Ivy League basketball - one filled with greater balance and parity.

For a team that won the Ivy League title, it was only appropriate to close on a high note. In its final home meet of the season, the Penn gymnastics team finished its season by beating Cornell, 190.675 to 188.40. After two solid rotations on vault and bars, the Quakers were competing true to form with freshman Marissa Rosen nailing down a 9.

The Crimson aren't the best lacrosse team in the Ivy League, but they look like it against Penn. In a back-and-forth game, Harvard scored the final three goals, including one only a minute into overtime, for the 7-6 win over Penn. It is the third time in three years the Quakers have lost to Harvard.

You would think that the military would make a tough opponent in an athletic event. But after two straight dominant victories, Penn could get used to facing our nation's military academies, at least on the tennis court. The men's tennis team defeated Army yesterday 7-0 , following its shutout victory over Navy Wednesday.

MADISON, N.J., March 25 - Penn fencing coach Dave Micahnik described it as "a Berkowsky performance." What was he referring to? It was junior Ron Berkowsky's silver medal finish in foil at the NCAA Championships. "When he does well, it doesn't surprise me," Micahnik said.

Three years after Stephen Colbert came to campus, the man who replaced him on The Daily Show is following suit. Daily Show correspondent Dan Bakkedahl will host the Ninth Annual Mask and Wig Intercollegiate Comedy Festival on April 9 and 10, officials from The Mask & Wig Club and the Social Planning and Events Committee said.

Attention, class: Introducing . Professor Kumar? Kal Penn, famous for playing the fast-food-chasing, pot-smoking slacker Kumar in the 2004 film Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, is slated to teach two undergraduate courses in the University's Asian American Studies Program during the spring 2008 semester.

For the fourth time in five opportunities this season, the Quakers' top reliever blew a save.

A resident of Southwest Philadelphia, Cheryl Thomas has been working at the Starbucks Coffee in 1920 Commons for two years. Ethel Gurley is a janitor with Penn Facilities and has been working at Penn for over five years. She says she "loves it." In all probability, neither would have been on campus 10 years ago, had the University and the Health System not made a concerted effort to hire more minorities and women from the surrounding community.

Defense may win championships, but offense can win games. The Penn women's lacrosse team proved that on Saturday, defeating Cornell 14-9 in a high-scoring affair on Franklin Field. Unlike their previous two wins when they gave up a combined nine goals, the No.

Penn has given the old Hillel building a two-month reprieve. Facilities officials have pushed back the demolition of the building and construction of the new facility for the Annenberg Public Policy Center to mid-May in order to minimize the impact on students during the school year.

Tuition may have gone up, but Penn officials are doing their best to make the University more affordable.

MADISON, N.J., March 25 - Competing shorthanded against anyone is difficult, but with the way the NCAA Fencing Championships are set up, it can spell disaster for a team's chance at a title. The Quakers faced just this predicament during the past four days in Madison, N.

Penn Police officials want to interact with more West Philadelphia youth - before they commit crimes. Despite juvenile arrests in connection with two of the four robberies that occurred in the Penn Police patrol area in February and high juvenile-crime rates citywide, Division of Public Safety officials say their proactive approach to the issue is working to curb juvenile crime on and near campus.