So, you're a Penn sports fan. Tough sledding, eh? No football titles since 2003, the worst basketball season in nearly two decades, and if Glen Miller has to wish one more departing hoopster "well on his future endeavors," you might just burst out of your Red and Blue Crew T-shirt like some sort of Incredible Ivy League Hulk.

Last year, on the plot of land on the 3900 block of Walnut Street stood an odd-looking complex. Asymmetric gaping holes spotted the metallic exterior. When students came back to campus last August, they found that the skeletal structure had materialized into the Radian.

E-mail inboxes, listservs and Facebook walls filled to the brim as this year's student government elections opened early Monday morning at 12:01 a.m. As of Tuesday afternoon, two days into the week-long election window, voter turnout stood at 34.16 percent - just 10 percent shy of the total number of students who voted last year.

Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Sergio Rossi, Alexander McQueen, Bottega Veneta, Stella McCartney and Balenciaga. While these names may inspire desire in the hearts of fashionistas all over the world, for Domenico De Sole, these are simply bullet points on his resume.

Sitting in synagogue services, mingling with musicians and reviewing restaurants are all in a day's work for some undergraduate researchers at Penn. Far from the traditional laboratory work that research is widely considered to be, a day of research at Penn is shaped by student interests and passions.

Domenique Wilson, the suspect in the home invasion and sexual assault at 44th and Spruce streets last December, waived his right to a preliminary hearing on a number of criminal counts that include an attack on three students at Lock Haven University. Wilson is scheduled for arraignment on April 27, according to the Clinton County District Attorney's Office, and will enter a plea at that time.

Janice Dow is a College sophomore from Los Angeles. Her e-mail address is dow@dailypennsylvanian.com.

The Blue Jays know how to put up a fight. So as the No. 2 Penn women's lacrosse team enters its ninth game of the season against unranked Johns Hopkins, they expect to hear the foul whistle a lot. "They're very physical so we're going to have to be able to handle that," coach Karin Brower said.

"Our customers used to want a big shopping bag with our label on it to carry around after their purchase. But now, they just want a simple brown bag," pronounced Roxanne Paschall, Senior Director of Merchandising of Bottega Veneta. "It's like they don't want to flaunt their wealth anymore," she said.

Last Thursday, President Obama hosted a small town hall in which he fielded a variety of questions submitted and voted on by an online audience. One of the most popular questions posed was whether decriminalizing marijuana might help the economy by creating a new source of tax revenue.

FlingSafe application deadline Friday Applications to volunteer for the Social Planning and Events Committee's FlingSafe are due April 3 at 12 a.m. Created four years ago, FlingSafe is a student-run program that encourages safe decisions throughout the weekend of SPEC's Spring Fling.

Students on campus may have noticed the river of Greek-lettered hats meandering between classes. Under the hats are fraternity brothers and sorority sisters celebrating Day One of the five-day fiesta known as Greek Weekend. The Weekend, now in its 11th year at Penn, marks an extended celebration of Greek unity and community service and features six events over the course of the weekend.

We've all been told to stop and smell the roses - but this is Penn. We don't stop for anything. I get annoyed if someone breaks to tie his shoes on a busy Locust walk. I don't even know what I would do if I saw a student stopping to sniff the daffodils in front of Huntsman Hall.

Penn softball is anxious. Anxious to notch a few more marks in its win column. After suffering two disappointing defeats to Harvard on Monday, the Quakers (5-17-1, 1-3 Ivy) will look to rebound when they make the short trip to La Salle (3-13) today for an afternoon doubleheader beginning at 3 p.

Black emergency-room patients are likely to wait about an hour longer than other patients to be transferred to a regular hospital bed, according to a recent study by researchers in the School of Medicine. The study, which drew from data from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey - a nationwide sample of emergency-room visits across the country - also found that critically ill black patients waited approximately an hour longer than other patients to be transferred out of intensive-care units.