Coaches are fond of saying that defense wins championships. Naturally, it wins some games along the way, too. Last night against American, Penn supported the old adage, providing a backbone of play that allowed the Quakers to add one more win to its season total.

When it comes to combating HPV, Penn's student health-insurance program needs a shot in the arm. Human papillomavirus, the leading cause of cervical cancer, is expected to kill another 3,700 American women this year. But with the development of Gardasil, a vaccine that protects against four most dangerous types of the virus, scientists have finally found a way to halt the spread of this frighteningly common sexually transmitted disease.

Before launching what would become an illustrious legal career, Gloria Allred graduated from Penn with "a diploma in one arm and a baby in the other." As a part of its Leadership Lunches series, Fox Leadership brought the renowned civil-rights attorney to the table in Leadership Hall yesterday for an intimate lunch and discussion of her career and education.

Researchers at the School of Medicine and the Abramson Cancer Center will lead a nationwide trial of anti-cancer drug combinations in patients with advanced kidney cancer, according to a Penn Medicine press release. "This trial takes three proven drugs, and combines then into two drug combinations," Medicine Keith Flaherty said in a statement.

"Orgasm is the body's natural call to feminist politics," wrote feminist author Naomi Wolf. Go out and sit on Locust Walk on a Sunday morning, though - are Penn's women just not getting any satisfaction? Why won't anyone make eye contact? We're all familiar with the walk of shame: The endless march across campus in f***-me pumps and clothes that are clearly not meant to be worn in daylight, paired with sex hair and morning breath.

Though thrust into the limelight rather suddenly, Interim Dean of Admissions Eric Kaplan is no stranger to Penn's admissions office. Kaplan, a former undergraduate director of admissions at Penn, was picked for the position after former Dean of Admissions Lee Stetson abruptly announced that he would leave the University effective immediately.

In demolishing the old Hillel building to make way for the new Annenberg Public Policy Center, the University saved two stones, the cornerstone and dedication stone, from the demolished building as a way of celebrating its significance to Penn's Jewish community.

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

What two words come to mind when you think of MoFo? Doubtful your first thought was the prestigious San Francisco-based law firm Morrison & Foerster. But Morrison & Foerster has a video on its Web site that ends with the phrase, "If you have that kind of mojo, you'll fit right in at MoFo.

This year's edition of The Line had everything Penn basketball - the fans, the Palestra, the cheerleaders - except for the team itself. The annual October event at which fans sleep overnight at the historic arena to get season tickets was held on Friday and Saturday last weekend, but none of the players or coaches made an official appearance.

James Shorter, a professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics in the School of Medicine, has been selected as one of the 29 scholars to receive the National Institutes of Health's New Innovator Award. The award - for which more than 2,100 people applied - totals $1.

Is there life on Mars? And does the time of year make you more inclined to think of a particular color of candy? Each semester, Penn professors tackle a number of questions across different topics, performing research that can save lives and solve problems of all sorts.

Crime rates for September took a slight dip compared to the same month last year, though year-to-date total crime is still up 3.6 percent. Total crime for September dropped by 3.9 percent, with burglaries seeing the biggest decline, decreasing from 10 last year to two this year.

Today is the last day you can register to vote before the meaningless mayoral election in November. We're all for voting and fulfilling your civic responsibility. Considering we're supposed to be enlightened, engaged citizens, Penn's past voter-participation rates in past elections have been embarrassing.

If you asked Marquise Liverpool in early 2004 where he thought he would be in three years, the Temple football practice facility at 11th and Diamond Streets wouldn't have even been a blip on the radar. If the multi-sport athlete out of Don Bosco Prep in Ramsey, N.

Nobody ever said beauty pageants were easy. These days, girls must strut in stilettos and show off their talents - and then, sometimes, engage in a two-year battle to get the money they were awarded. That was the case for first-year MBA student Ashley Wood, who has yet to receive the nearly $21,000 she won at a number of 2004 pageants, including the Miss Charleston and Miss South Carolina competitions.

As goes University City, so goes the University. This mindset permeates the administration's rhetoric so often that it's almost hackneyed. Even the new postal-land developments are being marketed as "forging connections between University City and Center City.