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Book drive helps students struggling with finances

The Black Students League is trying to help some students avoid skyrocketing textbook prices next semester. The group organized a textbook drive May 6-13 to help give books to Penn students struggling with financial aid. "Our goal is to help out classmates who have to go through hardships to get textbooks," said College sophomore and BSL community outreach chairwoman Jolecia Flournory.

Ultimate test awaits Penn club

The days of Penn being a national basketball powerhouse may be gone, but give the Quakers a frisbee and a field, and they can compete with the best in the country. For the first time since 1996, the women's Club Ultimate Frisbee team is headed to Nationals.

Senior Goodbye from Adam Goodman | Flipping past four years

As graduation approaches, I've been thinking quite a bit about things I have not done. It was sometime while watching the impossibly talented members of the Excelano Project perform several weeks ago that I realized I hadn't accomplished or seen 90 percent of what I told myself I would as a dewy-eyed freshmen.

Heptagonal Championships | Friendly rivalry keeps Westman going

Sophomore Darryll Oliver sat out much of this winter's indoor track season with an ankle injury, and struggled with the flu last week. Yet if you watched the 800-meter race at Saturday and Sunday's Outdoor Heptagonal Championships, you certainly couldn't tell.

Commencement 2009 | Schedule and map of ceremonies

Eric Schmidt, Google chairman and chief executive officer, will deliver the commencement address at the University of Pennsylvania's University-wide ceremonies that begin at 10 a.m., Monday, May 18, on Franklin Field, 233 S. 33rd St. Yunus will deliver the address at the Wharton School's Graduate Division ceremony at 1 p.

Hutz | Representing Title IX in sports media

"You. I'm glad to see you here," Cindy Shmerler said as she pointed directly at me. I was confused. It took a moment for me to realize why Cindy had singled out me. It was The Daily Pennsylvanian's annual Marquez Conference in the fall of 2007 and Cindy, serving as a panelist, and I were the only two females sitting in the room for the sports writing session.

Editorial | Goodbye to the seniors

Approximately 2,000 seniors graduate this weekend. Hopefully, we at the DP have had a relationship with most of you - to all of our readers and sources, we admire and salute your accomplishments. You're truly extraordinary. But we've gotten to know a handful of you especially well because you worked at the DP.

In recession, summer classes spike

The rippling effects of the current economic recession have surfaced at Penn again, this time to the benefit of summer session enrollment.

PhillyCarShare adds monthly fees

PhillyCarShare recently announced that it has added a monthly fee for its services. According to an e-mail sent to customers, the company began to "streamline" their services into a monthly plan on May 1. Members who pay the $15-dollar monthly fee will get "the lowest PhillyCarShare hourly rates" - from $3.

Crime log | Interactive map

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SAC to fund political and religious groups

Student Activities Council will fund some political and religious groups for the first time in the upcoming year. Budgets for the Penn Democrats and PRISM, an interfaith religious group, were both approved at SAC's annual meeting on April 22. Though political and religious groups have historically been denied University funding, the issue became particularly salient when political groups spent a large amount of money funding events during the election last year.

CDC confirms two Philadelphia swine flu cases

Updated May 8, 6:41 p.m. The CDC has confirmed two cases of swine influenza in Philadelphia. Neither of the two patients became sick enough to be hospitalized, however, and both are recovering, according to the Philadelphia Department of Health. Nine probable cases of swine influenza have now been reported in Philadelphia, though the infection has not affected the Penn community.

Ryan Benjamin | What really mattered

Picture this: The University of Pennsylvania, fall 1951. Harry Truman is the president of the United States, we are in the midst of war with Korea and women are not allowed to sit on chairs in Houston Hall. Also that fall, my grandfather entered Penn as a freshman, just shortly after the University stopped using informal quotas to limit the number of Jews who were accepted.

Student manslaughter case | Irina Malinovskaya out of prison

Former Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya was released from prison Friday after serving a sentence for manslaughter, according to John Painter, a spokesman for the Delaware Department of Corrections. Malinovskaya, 27, pleaded no contest to manslaughter in June 2008 for allegedly bludgeoning her ex-boyfriend Robert Bondar's then-girlfriend, Irina Zlotnikov, to death.

Symposium on climate change outlines challenges

This weekend, a concerned group of Penn faculty brought experts on climate change together to inform the Penn community about the challenges and opportunities that climate science presents. The event, "Symposium: Responses, Risks and Adaptation to Climate Change," was held Friday morning and afternoon in the Chemistry building.

Klitzman | Penn feeling blue in '08-09 year in review

Looking back on the 2008-09 Penn sports year, this wasn't exactly one to remember. Despite a strong start, things seemed to go downhill as the year progressed. In the fall, M. Soccer won the Ivy League, while Football, Field Hockey and Volleyball finished third.

Lisa Zhu | Time to pay it forward

The conventional formula for a senior goodbye piece (whether it takes the form of a DP column or a commencement speech) goes something like this: 1.) Nostalgically list several fond, quintessentially-Penn memories-"I remember getting wasted at Smokes/being pelted at Hey Day/pissing on Ben Franklin's statue ." 2.

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NIR Diagnostics wins Wharton Business Plan Competition

Amputations from wound infections might become obsolete because of four Penn students. The four students won $20,000 in Wharton's 2009 Business Plan Competition last Wednesday with their device that monitors the wound-healing process. The team of students, called NIR Diagnostics, comprised MBA students Pitamber Devgon, Xiaoming Fang and Bosun Hau and School of Medicine Ph.D. student Armen Karamanian.

W. Lax | Quakers going Stag to the Big Dance

With a fourth seed in the NCAA tournament, the Penn women's lacrosse team is starting their season anew. The Quakers (13-2, 7-0 Ivy) dropped their last two regular season games to No. 1 Northwestern and then No. 13 Stanford, tarnishing their undefeated record.