Down but not out. That was the message that the seniors on the men's lacrosse team were preaching heading into the game against Brown on Saturday. "There was a lot of motivation to finish 3-3 and not 2-4 in the Ivy League," senior David Cornbrooks said. "It's pretty easy to get up for a game like this.

After 19 years of work, Penn has installed the final piece in an 18,700-foot jigsaw puzzle. This past weekend, officials completed the last leg of a system of underground pipes that will change the way Penn provides air conditioning. The $125 million project, started in 1988, will connect all University buildings to a single network of pipes - 40 to 60 inches, and lying as low as 20 feet underground - that carries chilled water.

Abdi Farah is a College sophomore from Owings Mills, Md. His e-mail address is abdm@sas.upenn.edu.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued a preliminary injunction Friday that forbids a controversial casino referendum question from being placed on the May 15 ballot. The court also asked both sides - the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board and Philadelphia City Council - to file briefs by April 27 and will likely issue a filing ruling before the May primary.

Despite cold temperatures, long waits between sets and a parking ticket issued to Third Eye Blind, the Social Planning and Events Committee labeled the sold-out Friday concert a big success.

When it comes to studying until the wee hours of the morning at Van Pelt, many students have found that more really is merrier.

The University's priority is to advocate for students, not do the RIAA's legal work.

The School of Arts and Sciences has scaled back this year's faculty recruiting efforts due to unprecedented success last year, and some officials say smaller academic programs are feeling the squeeze the worst. According to Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Dennis DeTurck, Penn's recruitment and retention efforts last year were more successful than administrators had anticipated.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - He may not look it, but Penn Trustee George Weiss is akin to a fairy godmother - well, almost. Weiss wears a suit and tie instead of a wand and wings, but he and other supporters of undergraduate financial aid at the University make wishes come true by providing scholarships for hundreds of Penn students each year.

With a serendipitous calm before the year's biggest rainstorm, students across Penn put their license to Fling to good use. Although the forecasts predicted cold weather and a 30-percent chance of rain on Saturday, most of the two-day carnival was marked by sunny skies and cool but pleasant weather.

Penn women's track coach Gwen Harris didn't even know that she had seven first-place finishes. "Really?" she said. "Wow. I knew we did well but . wow, great." It might have been just too many to count as the Penn women scored 81 points at Princeton on Saturday, coming in first and beating track powerhouses Princeton and Yale.

Two loss columns read zero at the end of the weekend. The Penn women's tennis team extend its Ivy win streak to 5-0, while the Quakers' Lauren Sadaka kept her own undefeated run in the spring alive. Harvard and Dartmouth were no match for the Quakers, both falling by 7-0 margins.

Marissa Rosen and Lizzie Lowe found the confines of the NCAA East Regional less accomodating than cozy Hutchinson Gymnasium. Two of Penn's best gymnasts, Rosen and Lowe, competed against the nation's best Saturday at the NCAA Northeast Regionals at the University of Michigan.

Penn Police shot an alleged carjacker twice at about 11:00 a.m. today. He was taken to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and died from the gunshot wounds at about 12:40 p.m.

There is a first time for everything, including becoming a giant-killer. Annie Kinsey helped deliver it to Penn in a big way. Kinsey hit two big home runs in the second game of the Quakers' doubleheader against division-leading Cornell Saturday, as Penn took the second game 6-5.

The prosecution will not make the murder trial of Economics professor Rafael Robb a capital case, meaning the death penalty will not be an option in sentencing, Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce Castor told The Associated Press last week. Prosecutors decided not to seek the death penalty because they have not found aggravating circumstances that would make that sentence appropriate.

On a campus littered with overachievers, it's easy to lose the worth ethic that got students to Penn in the first place.