Freshmen living in Hill College House have earned the right to special preferences in the housing lottery.

Another week, another full slate of top-ranked teams. That can effectively sum up the Penn men's tennis team's season so far, as it has already faced seven top-100 teams, losing to all of them. And by the time students are returning from their weeks of relaxation on the beach, the team will have faced five more.

Rap artist Juelz Santana has signed a contract and will officially headline Spectrum's annual spring concert, Penn officials and representatives for Santana confirmed yesterday. The concert will be held April 20 at the Theater of the Living Arts, the same venue as last year's concert.

Though citywide shooting rates are soaring, it seems there may be a bit of hope for West Philadelphia. The number of assaults with firearms in West Philadelphia - comprised of the 12th, 16th, 18th and 19th police districts - has dropped 35 percent from 2003 to 2006.

This is just the way it was supposed to happen for Penn's seniors. On their home floor, Ibrahim Jaaber, Mark Zoller and Stephen Danley led the Quakers to an 86-58 victory over Yale last night to clinch a third straight Ivy League title and NCAA Tournament berth, and avenge their lone conference blemish of the season, a nine-point loss in New Haven a month ago.

It might only be a week into the 2007 campaign, but the Penn women's lacrosse team will have an opportunity to make national headlines. The squad will travel to Evanston, Ill. to take on the two-time defending national champions, No.

Mayor John Street delivered his final budget address to the city last week, praising his and his predecessor's work in delivering 15 years of balanced budgets. But Pennsylvania regulators and several mayoral candidates aren't so quick to congratulate Street's work.

Kiss that 15-seed goodbye. The 2007 men's basketball team did what last season's Ivy champion squad couldn't - close out the season with a win against Princeton. It dropped Penn's r‚sum‚ enough to eventually make a date with powerhouse Texas in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

Brown coach Craig Robinson is a glutton for pain. He spent four years as a player at Princeton getting heckled by the rabid fans of the Palestra and went 1-3 in his four games there.

Wharton now has two administrators to replace. The Conference Board officially named Wharton Vice Dean of Executive Education Jonathan Spector as its new president and chief executive officer on Tuesday.

Thanks to Yale's epic collapse at home, the only league games that matter will take place at the Palestra this weekend. But that doesn't mean the action stops. Six Ivy schools' schedules end on Saturday night, two of which are fighting to hit .500. Meanwhile, one other team (not to name names, but it ends in "-inceton") is desperately hoping to pull out of dead last.

There is no Ivy League championship glistening at the end of the tunnel, but Penn women's basketball coach Pat Knapp and his team couldn't care less. When the squad heads north this weekend, it is hungrily seeking to repeat its Yale-Brown sweep of last month.

38Days that a girl in St. Petersburg, Fla. was consecutively hiccupping; she stopped on March 1. Source: The Associated Press

On national television, Brown junior guard Damon Huffman contributed little in his 12 minutes against Michigan State. He made one field goal and tallied three steals. Huffman then missed the next seven games due to a knee injury. The Bears (10-17, 5-7 Ivy) went 3-4 during that period without Huffman.

Too bad Penn's first win in a month had to be tainted by bad tennis etiquette. Following a 7-0 shutout of Drexel (1-3), sophomore Jonathan Boym, neglected to shake opponent Omar Laalej's hand after Boym won a heated 7-6, 6-4 battle until his coach Mark Riley forced him to return to the court.

Men's golf coach Rob Powelson isn't shy about how his team stacks up to the competition. "I don't think there is another Ivy League program that works as hard as we do in the offseason," Powelson said. The Quakers are coming off an impressive fall season in which they came in second in the Big 5 Classic and came in second place in two other tournaments.

A female University faculty member was assaulted on the 3100 block of Walnut Street Monday afternoon, marking the eighth assault in nine days on or near Penn's campus. The woman was walking eastbound on Walnut Street at about 3 p.m. when she was approached by an unknown male who struck her in the face, Division of Public Safety officials said.