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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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.

Unresponsive elevators are fast becoming a thing of the past for Harnwell College House residents, though they may experience inconvenience on the way up. Over the next year, the building will undergo $1.75 million of extensive elevator renovations, which have already been finished in Rodin College House and will occur in Harrison College House following work in Harnwell, according to Mariette Buchman, director of Design and Construction Management.

White Dog Cafe owner Judy Wicks considers herself an independent thinker. So when she decided to stop selling bottled water at her establishment early this year, the decision was based on her commitment to preserving the environment, not local or national trends.

Now that the firestorm surrounding the Logan Hall-Claudia Cohen Hall Fiasco has died down, we can put the whole episode in a little bit of context. Frankly, the name of the building won't compromise the quality of your Philosophy lecture in Logan/Cohen 17.

As the word spread that Stephen Lynch would be performing on campus this semester, many students raised questions regarding his "offensive" and "sensitive" jokes. SPEC announced yesterday that Lynch would be performing at their annual fall show on Oct. 17 at Irvine Auditorium.

The Microsoft empire struck back this week with a new advertising campaign. The company is out to prove that it's not as stodgy as Apple commercials make it out to be. The campaign's television advertisements have been generating a lot of interest, and most students think Microsoft's image is making a change for the better.

Penn is taking more than just basketball titles from Princeton University this year. Over the summer, Music professor Carolyn Abbate, one of the world's most prominent musicologists, has been appointed the Christopher H. Browne Distingui