Large amounts of personal property were taken from the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house early Friday morning, Division of Public Safety and Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs officials said. DPS spokeswoman Stef Cella wrote in an e-mail that they believe the theft was perpetrated by a guest of one of the fraternity brothers who stayed at the house Thursday night.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - After devoting substantial practice time to unleashing his throws quickly, Yale quarterback Brook Hart felt he was prepared to face the Penn defense. He was wrong. The 6-foot-5 sophomore, filling in for injured starter Ryan Fodor, was thrown to the wolves in the Quakers' 9-7 win on Saturday.

The first 35 minutes of the Penn field hockey team's match with Yale belonged to Ashley McCauley. The Bulldogs senior forward netted two early goals, but as the game progressed, Penn defender Sarah Warner adjusted. "She got by me a couple times in the first half," Warner said.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Last year, it took three overtimes to decide the annual cardiac stress test that some refer to as a Penn-Yale football game. This time around, three field goals did the trick. Behind the strength of Andrew Samson's right leg and another gutsy defensive showing, the Quakers came from behind to nip the Bulldogs, 9-7, on Saturday afternoon at the Yale Bowl, improving to 3-0 in Ivy play for the first time since 2005.

This last week, I read about 30 e-mails about events occurring on campus, received a dozen or so Facebook messages and had countless awkward confrontations on Locust Walk. Then there was the PennPortal calendar of events, the Fisher-Hassenfeld (where I'm a Residential Adviser) Web site of House events and SPEC's combination of posters and e-mails.

Retail value of a Coach Signature Stripe Patent Tote? $268. Through various activities including a "Price is Right" game, Wharton Women taught over 180 girls from local high schools the basic tenets of personal finance at their sixth annual DollarDiva Conference.

When Julia Swanson single-handedly stuffed Dartmouth's Kelsey Johnson, she thought she had closed out Penn's sweep of the Big Green. Shock swept her smile away when the referee called her for a penalty. Two plays later, though, Swanson tipped the ball just in front of the outstretched arms of Big Green libero Amber Bryant for the win, bringing Dartmouth coach Ann Marie Larese to her knees in frustration.

Senior forward Molly Weir did her best to break a scoreless deadlock for the women's soccer team. Playing against Yale, Weir rattled a shot off the crossbar in the 20th minute. Then in overtime, her shot from the right side forced the Bulldogs keeper to make a sliding save.

A Penn education can really pay off. Just ask College seniors Brett Muhlada and Nancy Duan, who came from behind to win the first-ever Robbins Diamond Dash - and a $20,000 Hearts on Fire diamond ring. Hosted by local jeweler Robbins Diamonds, the 550-person scavenger hunt spanned more than two hours last Saturday, kicking off at Philadelphia's Thomas Paine Plaza and concluding at Love Park.

A new law will force criminals to think twice before shooting. Recently, Gov. Ed Rendell signed a bill imposing a mandatory 20-year sentence on anyone who shoots or attempts to shoot at a police officer. We commend the governor for endorsing this legislation.

If Barack Obama were running against John McCain for the Undergraduate Assembly, Obama would win in a landslide. On Penn's campus, 81 percent of students said they support Obama, compared to 17 percent who said they support McCain, according to a CBS News/Chronicle of Higher Education/UWire poll released today.

When was the last time you Democrats listened to Sean Hannity? Pat Buchanan? Anything you disagreed with? Shame on the politicians and shame on us for exacerbating a culture of intellectual self-appeasement. It's abundantly simple to believe what you hear and in turn seek out more sources - and more people - who confirm your beliefs.

Come Nov. 4, there's another reason to exercise your right to vote. Think of it as a friendly rivalry between Penn and Dartmouth. Dartmouth has issued a challenge to Penn to get a higher voter turnout rate on campus next Tuesday - and Penn has accepted. "Earlier this summer I talked with some Ivy presidents about ways to make students get out the vote, and I was thinking of a tangible and fun way we could get students involved," said Dartmouth senior and Student Assembly president Molly Bode, who issued the challenge to Undergraduate Assembly chairman and Wharton and College senior Wilson Tong.

For now, the Penn men's golf team is done until spring. But it took a fight through wind, rain and injury to close out the fall season. With a score of 929 - 77 over par - the Quakers finished sixth out of 15 teams at the Columbia Invitational in Galloway, N.

Casting director Paul Russell shared his personal "freak file" with an audience of aspiring actors and actresses last night at the Penn Bookstore. The portfolio of head shots and resumes exemplified some of the most heinous mistakes made by individuals hoping to break into the entertainment industry.

I read trash. Or at least according to some people I do. An article in Monday's issue of The Daily Pennsylvanian reported the plummeting rates of pleasure reading among college students. In it, one student said that "what college students typically read is not helpful at all to improving literacy rates anyway" and highlighted books such as the popular Twilight series as premiere examples of literary garbage.