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Guitar pedals, Buddha machines, book promotions and art-history lectures make up just another day for musician and composer Alan Licht, who finished his visit to Penn yesterday with a presentation at Kelly Writers House. Licht, known for his experimental free-form improvisations with partners ranging from Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo to a huge rotating metal cylinder at the Institute of Contemporary Art, spent two days at Penn.

Finance or Fine Arts? Economics or English? Successful alumni say, "Go with what you like. Five years down the road, it's not going to matter anyway." A College Alumni Mentoring Series panel discussed the impact a liberal-arts education has on one's career yesterday.

American businesses took a back seat to the largest democracy in the world last night. Palaniappan Chidambaram, the finance minister of India, opened the Wharton Leadership Lecture series yesterday with a speech followed by a Q&A; session in Huntsman Hall.