While Harvard travels to Yale praying for a Penn loss, the Quakers (7-2, 6-0) will try to claim the title for themselves tomorrow beginning at 1 p.m. at Franklin Field.

When hip-hop duo Hoodie Allen took the stage Thursday in the Zellerbach Theatre, students stormed the stagefront, eager to see not only performances by big name artists, but also familiar faces.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson, one of Penn’s most eminent professors, was honored with three National Communication Association book awards in addition to an American Red Cross lifetime achievement award was last week.

The new Quakers open their season tomorrow afternoon against Cornell in Ithaca, N.Y.

The Red and Blue will get their next opportunity to prevent an inauspicious start when they play their home opener against Duquesne. Penn lost to the Dukes (3-0) 78-45 last season.

Penn will host the Keystone Classic Sunday — its only tournament at the Palestra in 2009 — and then it’s on the road again as the Quakers embark on a four-tournament road stand that will have them traveling up and down the east coast until Jan. 9.

When Wharton and College junior Rohan Grover begins his one-year term as the new chairman of the Asian Pacific Student Coalition on Dec. 18, he hopes to increase communication between APSC, other minority groups and the student body as a whole.

Conditioning has been the main focus of the men’s squash team in preparing for the 2009-10 season. And tomorrow the Quakers will get the chance to show if it has paid off when they open their season with back-to-back matches in Ithaca, N.Y.

Tomorrow, Penn women’s swimming will face Olympic Qualifier Alicia Aemisegger and a powerful Princeton team that finished 7-0 in the Ivy League last season. The Quakers will also compete against Cornell in the dual meet held in Princeton, N.J.

Most Penn teams circle their first matchups with Princeton on their calendars. The men’s swimming team did the same thing — but for a very different reason. In tonight’s meet in Princeton, N.J., the Quakers have their eyes on Cornell.

Jawan Carter likes playing in the state of Delaware.

The Quakers finally return home. And just in the nick of time.

When Lt. Dan Choi was stationed in South Baghdad a few years ago, he noticed that the Shi’a minority in Iraq were compelled to be “silent about who they were” for the sake of “political benefits, rank, privilege or money.”

Givology — the student-run organization that aims to provide education for children abroad — partnered with Pileggi Boutique last night for a fundraiser that donated 15 percent of its profits to the expansion of the Circle of Peace School in Kampala, Uganda.

The College’s Dean’s Advisory Board issued a survey last week to gauge students’ satisfaction with their majors. Results of the survey will be issued to individual departments.

Wednesday night, Wharton junior Wendy De La Rosa and College junior Calina Cuevas were elected Latino Coalition’s chairwoman and vice chairwoman for 2010.

Many of us know someone running the 26.2 miles this weekend, and most of us think that they are insane.