Jennifer Lesser is a College junior from Minneapolis, Minn. Her e-mail address is lesser@dailypennsylvanian.com.

In its second Philadelphia Soccer Seven match of the season, the men's soccer team hosted Villanova on a muddy field amidst a constant downpour. By the end, the Quakers' uniforms may have been dirtied, but their record remained clean, as they prevailed, 3-2, thanks to a late penalty shot goal by senior midfielder Kevin Unger.

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Though TV scheduling issues led to a rare 6 p.m. start time for Penn's Saturday meeting at Lafayette, many Quakers were sure to make the most of their twilight kickoff. Their antidote to afternoon atrophy? A little scoreboard watching, 21st-century style. With preseason Ivy favorites Harvard and Yale both opening their Ancient Eight slates early in the day, many members of the Red and Blue employed a marvel of the new millennium to sneak a peak at the box scores.

After Sunday's draw with Temple, Penn men's soccer coach Rudy Fuller noted, "When two Philadelphia teams meet, everything goes out the window." Unfortunately for the Quakers, it was their seven-game shutout streak that went out the window against the Owls.

"Focus on your strengths, not weaknesses," Marcus Buckingham, a well-known motivational speaker, said at Zellerbach Theater last night. Buckingham discussed his latest book, The Truth About You, which directs readers toward self-empowerment. The Truth About You focuses on identifying one's strengths at an early age and developing the unique traits that every individual possesses.

This year's Greek Week kicked off on Monday night with bowling at Strikes and a new resolve for campus-wide Greek collaboration. The Panhellenic Council and the Interfraternity Council are working more closely with the Multicultural Greek Council this year than in the past in order to strengthen relationships between all members of the Greek community.

Despite his women's soccer team winning their last two games - against University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Harvard - by a combined score of 5-0, coach Darren Ambrose still feels that there's room for improvement. "I thought we were OK against Harvard [on Saturday]," Ambrose said.

The Penn women's soccer team improved to 1-1 in the Big 5 with a 4-2 victory over Saint Joseph's. In a physical match played on a muddy Rhodes Field, the Quakers managed an incredible 15 shots on goal, compared to only two for the Hawks. But thanks to St.

Penn's endowment may have shrunk over the past fiscal year, but a spending rule and an upward trend in donations to the endowment mean the University won't be feeling a squeeze yet. The University takes certain steps in the way they plan endowment spending to ensure that year-to-year fluctuation in endowment returns does not have an immediate or large effect on the operating budget.

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Janice Dow is a College sophomore from Rowland Heights, Calif. Her e-mail address is dow@dailypennsylvanian.com. Related StoriesMore turn to libraries in economic downturn - News

With the current bleak economic situation on the forefront of many peoples' minds, last night a panel of Penn professors turned to similar situations abroad to brainstorm potential financial solutions. Members of the panel, which was held at Steinberg-Deitrich Hall, included Wharton professors Luzi Hail, Bulent Gultekin and Marshall Meyer and Political Science professors Jennifer Amyx and Heiner Schulz.

Wharton named Marketing professor Z. John Zhang the first chairman of the Murrel J. Ades Professorship last week. Zhang, a Marketing professor who specializes in pricing, retail management and competitive strategies, has been a professor at Wharton since 2002.

So far this year the football team has been plagued by its inability to put together two solid halves on both sides of the ball. The Quakers have given up zero points in the third and fourth quarters, yet 38 in the opening two. And the offense has been equally inconsistent, going 70 minutes without scoring before putting up 17 points on 206 yards after the break against Lafayette This trend is nothing new.

Applying to graduate school? Get ready to familiarize yourself with some alphabet soup: GRE, GMAT, LSAT, MCAT. The latter three concern those students applying to business, law and medical school. Students hoping to pursue the arts and sciences take the GRE, or the Graduate Record Examination.

Less than a day after its first successful run, the Large Hadron Collider - the largest particle accelerator in the world - ran into its first glitch on Sept. 11 and has been shut down since. Penn researchers who were participating in the project say they are disappointed but still have plenty of work to take care of while waiting for the accelerator to be fixed.