Alicia Puglionesi is a College senior from Havertown, Pa. Her e-mail address is puglionesi@dailypennsylvanian.com.

This year, students are clicking their way toward a more interactive classroom environment, though some think the costs outweigh the benefits. This semester is the first in which many School of Arts and Sciences professors are requiring students to purchase "clickers" - small devices that allow professors to collect and display data from students during class time.

That 9 a.m. math class just got a little better. Three lecture halls in the David Rittenhouse Laboratory will be renovated next summer. Rooms A1, A2 and A4 will be renovated in time for the fall semester. While A1 will become a 240-seat classroom, the capacity of A2 and A4 will be increased to 80 seats each.

Fifteen year-old Logan Levkoff's parents pulled out bananas and condoms one evening in 1991- - during the onset of the AIDS crisis. Her parents declared, "You are going to learn how to do this," and from that night on Levkoff has been educating peers, parents and pupils about sex.

You may know him best as the Silver Fox. Or as the host of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360. But he prefers to be known simply as Anderson, a non-partisan news anchor who considers himself privileged to have his job - a job he did not know that he would want upon his 1989 graduation from Yale as a political science major.

"Look around this room," said Samuel Griffin, president of the male singing group the Orpheus Club of Philadelphia. "We are Bruce's children, we will carry on what he did . he will be there everywhere we are." Bruce Montgomery's impact on the Penn community as the school's longtime director of musical activities was the theme his memorial service yesterday.

Have you noticed the financial crisis developing right before our eyes - this country's worst since the Great Depression? Most of us know it exists but don't understand it to the extent we should. I randomly surveyed over 120 Penn students, and only 31 percent reported that they were "extremely confident" or "pretty confident" in their ability to understand the current financial dilemma.

Three-plus seasons of the unexpected (and the outright ridiculous) has made me hesitant to draw broad conclusions whenever Penn beats an unremarkable team like Dartmouth, especially in a game lowlighted by a 7-7 half. So I'll refrain from doing that. What, then, does one say about Saturday? The consensus in the pressbox and my inbox pegged the big developments as (a) Penn's inability to sustain drives, and (b) kicker Andrew Samson's three-for-three afternoon on field goals - notable only as a contrast to seasons past.

After his team wrapped up first-round play on Saturday, women's golf coach Mark Anderson knew the day was far from over. The Quakers had carded a 46-over 336 on day one of the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championships, and he wasn't ready to let them head back to their Williamsburg, Va.

"If Botswana does not tackle its AIDS problem head on, then the country will not survive," announced then President of Botswana Festus Mogae in 2000. Now, at the end of Mogae's decade-long presidency earlier this year, Botswana is at the forefront of the continent's battle with AIDS.

The long road to a university presidency has been getting longer. According to a recent survey, the amount of time it takes to progress through the ranks of academia is increasing, resulting in older presidents, said Jacqueline King, the assistant vice president of the Center for Policy Analysis of the American Council on Education.

Sister Pauline Silver Acayo, a Catholic Relief Services' Peacebuilding Officer in Uganda, spoke at Leadership Hall on Friday to discuss the current peacebuilding efforts in Uganda. Acayo has been working as a Peacebuilding Officer in Uganda since 2002. She started her presentation with the background of Uganda.

The women's cross country team is used to being together, on and off the course. Senior Charlotte Lawson, for one, has lived with Kinjal Parikh and Leah Brogan since their freshman year. And at the Women's Brown Race on Friday, a large field of competitors allowed the three Quakers to run side by side.

On Saturday, sophomore running back Michael DiMaggio carried the Quakers on his bulky legs. Quarterback Robert Irvin had a very respectable first half against Dartmouth. But without any semblance of a running game, the Quakers could not get the offense going, forcing Kyle Olson to punt the ball away six times before halftime.

The scoreboard showed Cornell up, 2-1, and the clock was ticking down. Penn forward Omid Shokoufandeh "thought it would be easy" beating the Big Red; instead, he was watching the unthinkable unfold. A loss to Ivy bottom-feeder Cornell would not mean not only an embarrassing way to snap the men's soccer team's eight-match undefeated streak but also an 0-1 conference hole.

Sophomore Luke Grau crossed the finish line of his 8K race with a time of 24:51- and only one sneaker. Grau proved himself in more ways than one at the Paul Short Cross Country Invitational in Bethlehem, Pa., on Friday,where Penn finished 12th. Coming in 20 seconds -but 25 places overall - behind teammate and fellow sophomore Chris Baird, Grau opted to abandon his unstable sneaker after another runner had stepped on his heel about one mile into the race.

In the two games leading up to Saturday's showdown at Dartmouth, the Penn women's field hockey team had finally overcome the slow starts that had plagued its season. But within two minutes, Dartmouth scored and stopped Penn's progress. The Big Green added another before halftime en route to a 3-2 win.