With her team leading 4-2 at halftime, women's lacrosse coach Karin Brower had no trouble identifying who needed to step up. "I told them that the attack better win the game since the defense was playing so great in the first half," she said. Using a 5-0 run in the second half, the No.

If you're in Wharton, your professor is probably out to get you. At least if you're a participant in Hostile Takeover, the Wharton Council's version of the popular game Assassins. For the first time since the game began four years ago, faculty members will participate in the event.

Senior Matt Valenti, defending last year's title at 133 pounds, was down 0-2 after a takedown by Oklahoma State's Coleman Scott in the first round of the finals. But as the whistle sounded to restart play after a reset in the second period, Valenti wiped doubts from anyone's mind that he would be able to repeat his national title, shutting out Scott for the rest of the match.

College sophomore Shoshana Rosenthal enjoys many subjects at Penn. But this blessing became a bane when she realized she had to pick one for a major. "I like a lot of things, and I got overwhelmed [when deciding] what to study," she said. Like her sophomore peers, Rosenthal must declare a major to be eligible for advanced registration for the next semester, which begins today.

Daniel Schwartz is a College freshman from Decatur, Ga. His e-mail address is schwarm@sas.upenn.edu.

A 46-year-old female attempted to commit suicide Friday morning at the SEPTA subway station at 40th and Market streets.

Officials from the Nominations and Elections Committee announced today that, since spring 2006, there has been an increase in the number of students who have received the necessary numbers of signatures to run for student-government positions. A total of 67 students are running for 76 positions this year, meaning that some students are running for multiple positions.

Sophomore Garvey Heiderman backed down his defender around the right side of Yale's goal, turned back to his left and ripped a shot past George Carafides late in the second overtime, as Penn hung on to beat the Elis, 10-9. Heiderman's goal saved a second-half collapse by the Quakers, who led 7-4 at halftime.

The government wants to curb underage drinking, but Penn says it's already doing everything it wants. The U.S. Surgeon General's office released a Call to Action report last week, which highlights the threat that underage drinking poses to the country. The report includes a section devoted to measures that universities should consider to curb underage drinking.

LEXINGTON, Ky., March 17 - On Thursday, Acie Law and Texas A&M; had to reach back for a little extra to hold off an upset bid from 14th-seeded Penn in the first round. Saturday, it was even tougher for the third-seeded Aggies, playing what essentially was a road game in Rupp Arena against sixth-seeded Louisville.

Penn's LGBT community is painting the campus red with QPenn 2007, Penn's annual celebration of LGBT life at Penn, today. The week-long event is themed "The RED and The Q," a play on Penn's school colors meant to highlight the LGBT community's presence on campus, said College senior Kellyn Goler, the co-chairwoman of QPenn's planning committee.

LEXINGTON, Ky. 'Relax, I'm taking over." Texas A&M; guard Acie Law was overheard to say those words Thursday at a critical time. During a media timeout midway through the second half, Penn had come back from a 16-point deficit to finally take a 39-37 lead.

AutoAdmit may be legal, but it's unethical and reflects poor judgement.

The story for the Penn men's tennis team has become quite familiar: The squad has challenged itself with tough road matches against top-tier teams and repeatedly come up short. The 68th-ranked Quakers experienced a similar result this weekend when they fell at No.

Recently, Norman Finkelstein was invited to Penn. Among the "sponsors" are the Political Science department as well as other groups. Some of those extending the invitations are unaware of Finkelstein's willing collaboration with neo-Nazis, Holocaust deniers and anti-Semites.

200Years, prior to Feb. 27, since a bald eagle was spotted in Philadelphia. Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer

LEXINGTON, Ky., March 15 - Virginia Commonwealth did it, and the Rams moved on. Penn didn't do it, and the Quakers went home. Penn, in its loss to third-seeded Texas A&M; Thursday, failed to do what so many underdogs fail to do in chalky first rounds. They couldn't capitalize at the tipping point of the upset.