The Trustees' Council of Penn Women presented their highest tribute, the TCPW Beacon Award, to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor yesterday in a presentation for alumni and students in Huntsman Hall Auditorium. O'Connor, who served as the first female member of the United States Supreme Court from 1981 to 2005, is the ninth recipient of the TCPW Beacon Award.

The Ivy League title may be practically out of reach, but when the Penn men's lacrosse team squares off against Brown on Saturday, the prospect of finishing with a winning record in conference play is enough to keep the Quakers (5-4, 3-2 Ivy) motivated. "It's important for us to have a winning record in the league," coach Brian Voelker said.

Avery Lawrence is a College senior from Charlottesville, Va. His e-mail address is lawrence@dailypennsylvanian.com.

A generous-paying job offer can mark a happy finale to a Penn education, but at the Engineering school, making sure students are ready can be a difficult task. With zealous recruiters, job-hungry students and a field changing faster than ever before, SEAS administrators and professors are now questioning how much weight to put on career-training in the school, one whose curriculum has long been rooted in teaching students fundamentals.

Tonight at midnight, "hooligans and whores" will mingle with students. Reefer Madness, Quadramics' 35th annual Spring Fling musical, opened last night at the Iron Gate Theater. For the fourth year, the show will be performed tonight at midnight immediately following the Fling concert on Franklin Field.

For many Penn students, the perks of being a Resident Advisor are pretty obvious: free room and board, a meal plan with endless Dining Dollars, freedom from the tyranny of Campus Apartments and absolute authority over dozens of feeble freshmen. But as much as anyone would appreciate having rent-free housing, some students certainly need it more than others.

In softball, a game dominated by statistics, numbers can often be the most daunting aspect of an opponent. Cornell (25-7, 7-1 Ivy League) has won eight straight en route to its Ancient Eight-best overall record. Penn coach Leslie King is unfazed by the Big Red, whom her team will play in back-to-back doubleheaders this weekend.

Everywhere Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) goes, students seem to follow. In all but three states this year, Obama has won the youth vote and dramatically increased young-voter registration and turn out at the polls. But with the Democratic race unlikely to end soon, many are wondering what will happen with young voters in the fall, particularly if Sen.

Last year, the Penn women's lacrosse team beat Dartmouth for the first time in exactly 16 years. This year, as the No. 6 Quakers (9-1, 4-0 Ivy) try to win in Hanover, N.H. tomorrow for the first time since April 9, 1988, the stakes aren't quite as high as last year when the teams were first and third in the standings.

The Quakers are three and a half games back of Gehrig Division-leading Columbia, with 12 conference games to go. They have as good a chance as they could ask for to shoot up the standings when Cornell visits Meiklejohn Stadium this weekend for four of those contests.

Mike Blodgett may be a junior, but thanks to the Princeton Invitational, he has never had a chance to attend Penn's signature party. "This tournament always falls on Spring Fling," he said. "I've never experienced what it's all about, but I don't regret it.

Despite the heavy chance of rain over Spring Fling weekend, the show will go on, according to SPEC. "It's going to go on rain or shine," said College sophomore and Fling co-chairwoman Dasha Barannik who is running the operations for the weekend festivities.

I, like many of my peers who better be doing the same thing right now, am flinging. You could ask me why, and I'd tell you, but I hope it's fairly obvious. We get only two official days a year when all our collegiate responsibilities are forgotten - just as long as we don't forget which freshman we employed to hide that bottle of booze before bag checks started.

A misleading comment To the Editor: Christina Domenico's interesting column on cognitive enhancement generally reflected my views accurately, but one part of it may have misled readers. After a paragraph that reported some ways in which I think cognitive enhancement could be "a bad thing," Domenico wrote, "But if an academic decides to give himself a boost by taking Adderall and consequently produces better research - well, that's a good thing.

By the time Ludacris takes the Franklin Field stage tonight, the Penn men's tennis team hopes to have taken the Number One Spot in the Ivy League. The Quakers can do so today by going into Boston and defeating Harvard, which is perched atop the Ivy League (10-6, 2-0 Ivy).

It's finally that time of year again - time to celebrate the largest college party on the East Coast. Since 1973, Spring Fling has been the ultimate student event at Penn. The weekend festivities began as a final stress-reliever before students headed to exams.

Twelve graduate students were chosen to represent more than 11,000 of their peers Wednesday night when the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly elected its 2008-2009 Executive Board. The Board will be led by School of Medicine student Andrew Rennekamp.