The City of Philadelphia's 2010 budget is being planned and the Mayor wants to know what you think. The Penn Project for Civic Engagement will run four workshops in February on behalf of the City to allow Philadelphia citizens' input into the early stages of composing the budget.

First there was the massive rescue of the financial industry - the $700 billion fund set aside to scoop up troubled assets from banks. Then in December, the American auto industry secured an emergency reprieve from the government to avoid bankruptcy worth billions and still possibly more.

Nearly 130 million people voted in November's election. Millions donated money, or forwent a day of work or school to talk to their neighbors about health care, crime on our streets, or the state of our public schools. And on Jan. 20th, America got a new president because of that hard work, with 1.

With a dozen of his friends watching and the crowd "oohing" and "aahing" his every move, Hicham Laalej laced a forehand down the left side of the court. The ball whizzed just over the net and landed inches inside the white line for yet another winner. It was that kind of day for the revamped men's tennis team and its highly-touted transfer in its regular season opener against Drexel.

Super Bowl XLIII may not be the only thing Penn students are wagering big bets on this week. A new Web site, Ultrinsic.com, allows students to enter a contest where earning an A in a course wins them money. The deadline for entrance is Wednesday. A $20-per-class bet plus a $2 entrance fee allows students to enter a pool which they can win outright or split with others if they earn an A or A+ in a class.

On Saturday night, The Daily Pennsylvanian honored the accomplishments of the past year and officially inaugurated its new Board of Editors and Managers. This transition marked 125 years of striving to serve the Penn community and to act as a watchdog to the administration.

Ask recently terminated Kansas City Chiefs coach Herm Edwards about the concept of a "good loss," and he'd be quick to inform that "You play to win the game!" Bring up the Penn wrestling team's Friday loss to No. 4 Nebraska (12-2-1) with Quakers coach Rob Eiter, and you will get a very different response.

With 24 seasons of Big 5 hostilities in his memory bank, Phil Martelli knows full well what the Philadelphia fan is capable of. Which helps explain why the Saint Joseph's coach might have expected worse from an electric sellout crowd at the Palestra Saturday night.

Planners of this year's RecycleMania run are using new techniques to encourage on-campus recycling - but they're recycling ideas from last year, too. Although last week marked the beginning of RecycleMania's second run at Penn, the competition won't formally begin until Thursday, when a kickoff event at Houston Hall will feature director of the Mayor's Office of Sustainability Mark Hughes speaking about ways Penn and Philadelphia can work together to improve environmentalist efforts.

Carlos Rivera-Anaya, 2005 alumnus and chairman of the United Minorities Council in 2004, may have graduated, but he still raids the kitchen at the Greenfield Intercultural Center. Over 25 years ago, Penn students called for a place that would serve as a home away from home for students of different cultures - and, at least for Rivera-Anaya, the center serves that purpose well.

After thirteen days off, the Penn women's basketball team is looking to start their season anew. The Quakers (3-10, 0-1 Ivy) will face Seton Hall (13-6) at the Palestra tonight in their final non-conference matchup of the season. But the Quakers aren't underestimating the significance of the game on their way to the start of the Ivy season.

Two Drexel University students died in a car accident yesterday morning at 3:30 a.m. while headed south on Route 15 two miles south of Liberty, Pa., according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. No other cars were involved in the crash. The students, John Williamson Jr.

No one argues that undefeated Trinity isn't the best squash team in the nation. The question is what to take away from a loss on the inevitable long ride home. The No. 7 Quakers became the No. 1 Bantams' 191st consecutive victim Saturday afternoon in a 9-0 loss in Hartford, Conn.

What could 21st-century bibliophiles possibly glean from an obsolete 17th-century practice? Plenty, according to College senior Brooke Palmieri, coordinator of "Rebuilding the Temple: Typesetting George Herbert Several Centuries Out Of Context." The event, which will take place today at 5:30 p.

In a unique collaboration among universities, Penn and Arizona State University have entered into a three-year partnership to assist each other in commercializing the technologies developed by their researchers. According to a news release from ASU, the new relationship will allow the two universities to leverage each other's expertise in certain fields.

For captain Emily Goodwin, Saturday's squash match against No. 3 Trinity was more than just a battle of top-ranked teams - the New York native's best friend from home, Chauncey Kerr, is the captain of the Bantams. Nevertheless, the history of the two captains contributed to a heated match, literally and figuratively, at Ringe Courts.

As Penn students receive bids to join fraternities and sororities this semester, they are joining a long-time staple of the University and one of the oldest Greek societies in the country. The 160-year fixture of student life has not always played as large a role on campus as it does now, with nearly 30 percent of students involved in Greek organizations.