So, you guys are probably gonna beat us tonight. We're 1-5 in the Ivies. We lost to Dartmouth Saturday night. Yeah, that Dartmouth. But it's not like we couldn't beat you guys if we wanted to. We've done it in the past, time and time again. But this season, we're looking at the bigger picture.

NATION In February 2000, student groups at colleges across the nation mobilized in protest of the Fair Labor Association. The FLA, charged with monitoring sweatshop conditions, was, in reality, made up of the companies that they were supposed to be watching.

The University is the most frequent violator of federal animal-abuse guidelines in the country, with 77 citations during a nine-month period, according to research watchdog group Stop Animal Exploitation Now. SAEN reported that most of Penn's violations are in three areas: veterinary care; housing, facilities and sanitation; and institutional animal care and use committees.

About 10 minutes after Saturday's win over Harvard, with the crowd still filing out of the Palestra, a collective cheer went up from the Penn fans walking past the tennis courts. The news quickly spread through the crowd - Cornell had beaten Yale, 60-59, returning the Quakers to their rightful spot atop the Ivy standings.

With Penn up by eight against Harvard and with an open look, Brennan Votel was in a perfect spot to put up the three-pointer. It is a shot that has only been successful for him 16 percent of the time so far this season, but he took the chance. The gamble paid off, and as the ball swished through the net, Votel must have felt that it was going to be a good night.

Philadelphia's proposed ban of foods made with trans fat will bring taste, healthy lifestyles back to the city.

Pulling up a chair at one of the long dining-room tables, Robert Engs, Princeton class of '65, sat down to enjoy a meal with some of his fellow undergrads.

There were plenty of obstacles that freshman Marcus Schroeder had to hurdle to find his way into a Princeton uniform and the starting lineup. There was the geographic divide that the Concord, Calif.

Whoa there, Princeton. Just take a deep breath. You see, the same thing seems to happen every year with us. When confronted with the sad realities about your basketball program, you throw a hissy fit. You try to say you're better than us, that Penn stinks, and that we took your lunch money when you were little kids.

Penn Medical School professor Stephen Emerson will be the next president of Haverford College, Haverford officials announced at a public ceremony last night. Emerson is slated to begin the presidency officially on July 1.

Amira Fawcett is an Engineering sophomore from Houston, Texas. Her e-mail address is fawcett@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Two weeks after being euthanized, Barbaro is still leaving hoofprints on the New Bolton Center. Though things have begun to quiet down, gifts and donations continue to flood the Center, where Barbaro received intense medical attention for eight months.

A pedestrian-friendly South Street bridge would benefit city, students.

Americans enjoy 1,049 rights based on marital status. But for gay Americans, the number drops. Outside of Massachusetts, gay unions throughout the country are not recognized as legal marriages. So yesterday, as a part of Freedom to Marry Day, Penn students, faculty and staff came together to try to end what some see as outright discrimination.

Despite an ideal location and willing campus, Penn has little luck when it comes to hosting presidential debates.

In Malawi, every boyfriend is a "sugar daddy" - in fact, regularly supplying one's "chibwenzi," or "friend/sexual partner," with money is not a form of prostitution but a normal and expected behavior in premarital Malawian sexual relationships. Michelle Poulin, a postdoctoral fellow in the Population Studies Center at Penn, spoke yesterday about dating and marriage in the midst of the AIDS epidemic in Africa in the McNeil Building.

Last night, Rodin College House residents were given specific instructions: Close the windows, shut the bedroom door, go to a lounge-less floor, and listen up. In place of the more standard fire drills, University safety officials conducted a shelter-in-place drill, in which students learned what to do in case of non-fire-related emergencies.