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A "typical" day for Penn students should prove pretty tempting for high school seniors. At least that's what the Admissions Office hopes as it updates the Penn Admissions film, used to attract prospective students to the University. This new film will focus on the daily lives of 10 Penn students who participate in a wide variety of extracurricular activities.


For charitable - and hungry - Law students, the idea is simple: Round up as many friends as possible and go out to eat. The more friends you bring and the more food you eat, the better. These steps are the basic requirements for Dining for Change, a group launched earlier this month by two first-year Law students, Madhu Muthukumar and Dimitri Islam.

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If Ben Folds seems like a familiar choice for this year's Spring Fling headliner, it's because he is. Folds, who will perform at Penn on April 13, follows a line of music artists brought to Penn that all tend to play similar, alternative-pop styles of music.

The date for a preliminary hearing for Troy Brown, the man charged with a string of robberies with a screwdriver, has been reset for May 4 after he was assigned a new court-appointed lawyer last week. Cathie Abookire, a spokeswoman for the district attorney's office, said the preliminary hearing that had been scheduled for March 5 had been changed to a status listing, in which Brown was appointed a new attorney, Alston Meade.




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For charitable - and hungry - Law students, the idea is simple: Round up as many friends as possible and go out to eat. The more friends you bring and the more food you eat, the better. These steps are the basic requirements for Dining for Change, a group launched earlier this month by two first-year Law students, Madhu Muthukumar and Dimitri Islam.


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After this spring break, coach Michael Dowd may want to consider playing all of Penn's future games in San Diego. The southwestern locale, known for its scenic beaches and temperate weather, was kind to the women's tennis team during its seven-day, five-game California road trip.


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Former Penn professor Robert Grossman will be the next Dean of the New York University School of Medicine, NYU officials announced last week. Grossman, who graduated from the Penn School of Medicine in 1973, will also serve as the new CEO of the NYU Hospitals Center.



M. Lax 'hands over' two winnable games

A three-game road set during spring break left the men's lacrosse team clamoring for some home cooking. As expected, the Quakers had no problem dispatching Robert Morris on March 3. Goals came easy for Penn as it steamrolled the Colonials, 13-5. The onslaught was led by sophomores Casey O'Rourke and Craig Andrzejewski.



Improved recycling comes to area

In the very near future, laziness will no longer be an excuse for area residents not to recycle. Beginning March 5, the City of Philadelphia Streets Department will implement its Single Stream Recycling methods in West and Southwest Philadelphia. "Single Stream is the wave of the future, and the wave of the present for a lot of cities already," said Evan Belser, community organizer for the Recycling Alliance of Philadelphia.


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The deadline for initiating new members into fraternities is today, but some fraternities will be running into overtime - with or without official permission. Under Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs regulations, pledging for both fraternities and sororities is supposed to last six weeks, after which pledges must be officially initiated.



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Wharton senior Michael Tolkin wants to make Willy Wonka's chocolate factory a reality. Through this Wharton senior's company, Foodily Chocolate Factory, customers would be able to create personal candy bars using potato chips, marshmallows, pretzels and chocolate at a company store.



Kaplan gets his kicks from renowned shoe collection

Casey Hughes boasts the best slams on the Yale basketball team, but Sam Kaplan has the hottest dunks. Whether it's his Jordans, Air Force Ones or Nike Dunks, Kaplan has wowed his friends and teammates with a massive shoe collection. The senior swingman from Worcester, Mass.


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James Baker, a former secretary of state and co-chair of the Iraq Study Group, will address the class of 2007 at Penn's 251st commencement on May 14. Baker will be joined by six honorary degree recipients, including Supreme Court justice Ruther Bader Ginsburg and R&B; songstress Aretha Franklin.



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Open to all To the Editor: The accusations that have been leveled against Delta Zeta's national organization in regards to the DePauw University chapter have garnered the attention of the sorority community here at Penn and reminded us of the importance of diversity in our community.