The Peace Corps holds a three-day "staging event" for new volunteers before they leave the country to give them an overview of Peace Corps' practices and what to expect once they arrive at their destination.

Despite dominating time of possession and outshooting Cornell 11-1 on Friday, the Penn women's soccer team had trouble finding the back of the net in its first Ivy League matchup of the season. The Quakers rely on precision passes to set up scoring opportunities, but their timing has been slightly off at times during the season.

Former Dean of Admissions Lee Stetson attended an annual admissions conference in Texas last weekend as questions swirled in the admissions community about his sudden departure.

A self-interested liar unmoved by his girlfriend's death and inconsistent in his testimony is the portrait defense lawyers attempted to paint yesterday of Robert Bondar, the ex-lover of accused murderer Irina Malinovskaya. Bondar's then-girlfriend Irina Zlotnikov was allegedly bludgeoned to death by Malinovskaya in his Delaware apartment in Dec.

There's something quintessentially awful about studying at Penn. It goes beyond the fact that you're actually expected to do well in an Ivy League school, and it also goes beyond the fact that the amount of work can, at times, be inordinate. Instead, it's about the cutthroat intensity students adopt to be "competitive," an intensity that is beginning to pollute our social environment.

The slowest person on the Philadelphia Eagles practice field has remained with the team for almost four decades. And the most devout and literary sports fans from the City of Brotherly Love wouldn't want it any other way. Ray Didinger has been covering the city's pro-sports teams since he was 23 years old, and has become the media equivalent of versatile ex-NFLer Kordell Stewart: sportswriter, radio personality, TV commentator and NFL Films producer rolled into one.

After beating 11 candidates with 239 votes, Wharton freshman Keith Williams landed the one of the most coveted roles among his freshman peers: class president. The new leader, whose term begins immediately, sat down with The Daily Pennsylvanian to share his to-do list for the year to come, a bit about his past and why he already thinks he can read your mind.

To those who weren't in Hanover, N.H., on Saturday, it's hard to fathom how Penn managed to score only 13 points, much less lose to Dartmouth. The Quakers had no turnovers, 406 yards of total offense, and on average, they started their drives from their own 44-yard line - tremendous field position, to say the least.

According to Fred Fransen, philanthropists need to be a little more selfish. Sometimes characterized as having a lot of money to throw around and little clue how to best use it, alumni and other university donors are being courted by Fransen's new Center for Excellence in Higher Education.

Thanks to SEPTA's latest fare hike, College sophomore Benjamin Brooke will have to shell out an extra $2.40 per month to get into and out of Center City. Starting today, the price of SEPTA tokens and paper transfers will each increase 15 cents, to $1.45 and 75 cents, respectively.

The saying goes, "If a tree falls down in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" A timelier question would be, "If an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 rally in Jena, Louisiana, in protest of a case of unequal justice ignored by the mainstream media, does it matter?" I'm no philosophy major, but the answer is a resounding yes.

The Quakers' defense played well enough to keep them in the game, but it was the Cornell defense that handed Penn a 1-0 victory on Friday. The only tally came on an own goal just under 10 minutes into Penn's Ivy League opener. Cornell defender Leslie Campbell inadvertently headed the ball into her own net.

It only took five minutes for the Penn field hockey team to shake off the rust accumulated during a two-week break. Dartmouth had the ball for the first five minutes of the game, but as soon as Penn got its first possession, the Quakers dominated, winning 5-1.

Does the name Kurt Mitman ring a bell? He's the former Econ grad student who was exposed last January for leading the kind of double life - ambitious Ivy Leaguer by day, jailed sex offender by night - that seemed more suited for HBO than for Penn's campus.

Five weeks after Roger Federer successfully defended his U.S. Open title at the USTA National Tennis Center in New York, the Penn men's tennis team failed to follow suit at the same venue. The Quakers' two-year reign at the ECAC Championships met its end on Saturday with a 6-1 loss to Harvard.

Lorenzo Williams and Rhea Gargullo are the biggest Asians on campus. At least according to students who attended last Friday night's Big Asian on Campus, a competition for Asian students to showcase their talents. Williams, a College sophomore, won the crowd over with his oral poetry, while Gargullo, a College senior performed a freestyle dance.

Now that it's On Campus Recruiting season, I think it is safe to say that most of the senior class is freaking out. Because one bad interview, one bombed brainteaser, and you know you've blown your chance at future happiness. But don't fret, dear senior, you haven't.