In the early morning hours of Sept. 9, a student at Georgetown University was brutally assaulted. Why? Because he's gay. According to NBC, the victim, whose identity remains anonymous, was leaving a party near Georgetown's campus when he was allegedly assaulted with homophobic taunts before being physically attacked.

At the Undergraduate Assembly meeting Sunday night, board members discussed an array of initiatives designed to make campus life more convenient for the student body. They include the following: n The Facilities Committee presented its findings on current student recycling in an effort to raise awareness about the environment.

Yale's Mike McLeod had an off game, by his standards, against Dartmouth on Saturday. The Ivy League's most dangerous offensive threat carried the ball 27 times for 155 yards and one touchdown in the Bulldogs' 50-10 thrashing of the Big Green, 33 yards short of his season average per game.

Even with their recent initiatives to improve student life for students in all 12 graduate schools, GAPSA officials admit that it is a challenge to appeal to and affect such a large group.

Penn students did not generally express enthusiasm for the Social Planning and Events Committee's choice to have Ben Kweller as the headlining fall performer, but those who attended the concert would beg to differ.

No player on the Penn women's soccer roster has ever experienced a 2-0 start to the Ivy League season. That is, until Saturday, when the Quakers defeated Columbia in New York 2-1. In knocking off the defending conference champions, the Quakers (8-2-1, 2-0 Ivy) ended Columbia's (6-3-2, 1-1) eight-game unbeaten streak and extended a modest three-game winning streak of their own.

Brown kids are hippy pot smokers, Columbia kids are artsy and deep, Harvard kids are arrogant pricks, but what are Penn kids? Are we even important enough to garner any sort of stereotype, whether negative or positive? I visited four other colleges (Drexel, Brown, Yale and Princeton) to find out.

Georgetown was winless in the Patriot League last year. It was 0-5 coming into this weekend, and had lost its last two games by a combined score of 100-7. But a win is a win. Penn secured its first victory of the season with a 42-13 drubbing of the Hoyas that was never close.

Think of any 10 undergrads at Penn. Would you believe that four or five of them might be depressed? According to a national survey of 13,500 college students published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2005, 45 percent of undergraduates reported experiencing depression severe enough to prevent them from functioning day to day.

Days after thousands of monks marched on city streets thousands of miles away, a group of students organized their own solidarity protests on campus. The vigil, which took place on College Green Friday, was held in reaction to the current events in Burma, which has seen a series of monk-led anti-government protests.

Haverford College inducted a former Penn professor as its 13th president Saturday. Stephen Emerson, a stem-cell biologist, comes to Haverford from the Penn Medical School, where he was a professor in Pediatrics and Pathology. He was also chief of oncology and hematology for the University's Abramson Cancer Center.

Rarely does a struggling quarterback get removed from his play-calling duties only to re-enter the game as a punt returner. But that's exactly what happened on Saturday to Georgetown sophomore Robert Lane, who was chosen, over regular starter senior Matt Bassuener, to helm the Hoyas' rush-heavy attack.

Like anyone who has lived in the high rises, Soleil Roberts has had her fair share of encounters with the notorious section of Locust Walk known as the wind tunnel. One day last year, the now-College senior half-jokingly tossed an idea around with her Environmental Science professor, saying, "You should put up a windmill here - you could power the whole school.

Explore Philadelphia! It's an upbeat message which the University (and the DP) often sends, as if students can simply jaunt around the city of brotherly love at their slightest whim. Just a few problems: SEPTA is a pathetic excuse for public transportation, taxis can be prohibitively expensive and most students have neither the time nor the ability to walk everywhere.

If you are looking for an example of what a "full" life looks like, you'll find it with Martin Meyerson. Meyerson, Penn President from 1970 to 1981, succumbed to prostate cancer this past June at the age of 84. A memorial service was held in his honor last Friday inside the Harrison Auditorium of the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

It's official. The first 'W' is finally in the books for the Quakers. Penn's offense finally came together against Georgetown, converting on red-zone opportunities and snatching points turned down in games one through three. "It's something we needed to experience again," senior quarterback Bryan Walker said of the win.

After leading the Quakers in scoring in each of the last two seasons, junior forward Mike Klein came into Saturday night's matchup against Columbia with no goals and only one assist through eight games. All of that changed in a hurry in the second half against the Lions.