It's rare for mighty Harvard to be left out of the conversation when it comes to Ivy League sports. But, in men's basketball, the Crimson have recently been nothing more than an afterthought in the title chases. In April, the program finally made front-page news with the hiring of Tommy Amaker.

This season is wide open for someone to step up and call for the ball. The graduated Mark Zoller and Ibrahim Jaaber leave behind a combined 34 ppg hole for the Quakers' offense to fill. Steve Danley's almost nine points per contest will be missed and Penn's fifth leading scorer Tommy McMahon will sit out the season after back surgery as well.

It's looking more and more likely that the Ivy League title will be decided by the clash between Yale and Harvard in The Game next weekend. The Bulldogs and Crimson still have their flawless League records intact and face off against two bottom dwellers in Princeton and Penn, respectively, tomorrow.

The men's soccer team is in need of a break tomorrow, and there'd be no better time to get it than against No. 15 Harvard on the Crimson's home turf. It has been a tough season for the Quakers (5-8-2, 2-3 Ivy), who were shut out in their last two contests against Brown and Princeton and have lost five of their last six.

The men's basketball team doesn't have an organized hazing ritual for incoming freshmen, but 6-foot-8 power-forward Jack Eggleston had a unique initiation onto his new team. "Brennan [Votel] broke my nose on the first day of classes," Eggleston said. "I had to sit out a couple of weeks . but other than that nothing too intense.

The Philadelphia District Attorney's office called former Neurosurgery professor Tracy McIntosh's petition to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court "frivolous" and "legally irrelevant" in its reply to McIntosh's request to the court to block his resentencing. The brief, filed last week, outlines the prosecution's opposition to McIntosh's attempt to halt resentencing in connection with a 2002 sexual assault.

Most Wharton Management 100 teams plan events and sell T-shirts to raise money for their clients and causes. But for Team Shout, the goal is different: raising political awareness. Working for entrepreneur and Wharton alumnus Ryan Comfort, the team is promoting Our Voice 2008, a Web site that seeks to politically engage voters between the ages of 18 and 30.

When Yale University sophomore Jon Terenzetti heard last year that Penn students can pack food into takeout containers and take them home from dining halls, he wondered why Yale students couldn't do the same. A year later, Yale is in the midst of bringing a takeaway system to its own dining halls.

By Brian Finkel Staff Writer finkel@wharton.upenn.edu Just don't lose. A draw is all it will take for the women's soccer team to finally have the Ivy League title all to itself. After clinching a share of the Ivy League championship and an automatic bid to the NCAA postseason with a win over Princeton last Saturday night, the Quakers prepare to wrap up their regular season slate tomorrow with a match at Harvard (10-5-1, 3-3-0 Ivy).

The Penn men's basketball team comes into its first weekend of play with many more questions than answers. Coach Glen Miller says he hasn't even decided who will start tonight's game against Drexel other than Brian Grandieri. He joked that the senior guard will be "at the one, two, three, four and five.

Together, we can make a difference To the Editor: Is it possible for Penn to be red, blue and . green? It certainly is, and contrary to the argument of Jenny Zhan's column ("To hell with saving the world; it's a waste of time," 11/02/07), our personal choices do in fact impact the state of our environment.

For the three seniors of the Penn men's basketball team, the clock is ticking away on their final season. Seniors Joe Gill, Mike Kach and Brian Grandieri know all too well that over 15 years of playing amateur basketball are coming to an end. But how did they begin their hoops careers? Gill, a swingman from Doylestown, Pa.

When the Penn football team heads up to Harvard tomorrow, it will find itself in an all-too-familiar role at this point in the season. Out of contention for the Ivy League championship yet again, the Quakers can only hope to ruin the Crimson's hopes for another league crown.

With Harvard and Princeton holding out until the spring, could a binding early-decision acceptance to Penn be not so binding? The possibility of early admitted students breaking matriculation agreements is usually fairly marginal, but this year marks the first admissions season in which students will not have the option to apply early to Harvard and Princeton universities.

It's hard to know how honest players and coaches are being when they call Penn senior captain Brian Grandieri a "tough competitor." After all, the term does get thrown around a lot in the world of sports. But when his own mother feels that those two words are what best sums him up - maybe they're all on to something.

DuBois College House is the smallest and arguably the most racially and ethnically diverse of the 11 college houses at Penn. Less than 200 students live in "The House," as it is affectionately referred to by current occupants and alumni whose experiences at Penn were shaped by living and learning at DuBois.

As College junior Lindsay Docto handed out flyers for a United Minorities Council forum on diversity, most students said Penn was already diverse enough - after all, look at all the people of different ethnicities walking down Locust Walk. "Yes, but are they walking together?" Docto asked to start the student-led "Divided Diversity" discussion last night at Greenfield Intercultural Center.