Avery Lawrence is a College junior from Charlottesville, Va. His e-mail address is lawrence@dailypennsylvanian.com.

This afternoon, students can put their names down to potentially save lives. The National Marrow Donor Program will hold the second of two on-campus drives from 1 to 4 p.m. in Biomedical Research Building I. The program is an effort to get community members to volunteer their information for the national registry, which links donors to cancer patients in need of bone marrow transplants.

Brennan Votel's play in his first few games this year raised a question for coach Glen Miller: What if Votel was not the big man of the future for Penn?

These Quakers are no strangers to overcoming adversity. After losing captain Katelyn Sherry to a serious foot injury, the 2005-2006 Penn fencers bounced back to finish with a 10-5 record and a ninth-place finish in the NCAA Championships. This season, the Quakers again find themselves with their backs against the wall.

A string of child-abuse cases have come to light in Philadelphia over the past few weeks, and Carol Spigner has a chance do something about the problem. Spigner, a professor at Penn's School of Social Policy and Practice, was appointed co-chair of Mayor John Street's recently announced Child Welfare Advisory Panel for Philadelphia.

There was more than enough blame to go around last night. Turnovers, fouls and missed shots plagued the Quakers all night long in another blowout loss to Delaware. Yet when it came to success, the spotlight shone brightly on just one person. Of all the Quakers, only tri-captain Monica Naltner elevated her game to the level necessary to beat a team of Delaware's caliber.

President Bush's nominee to head his family-planning and teen-pregnancy programs is a staunch abortion foe.

It took my own home being burglarized for my wake-up call: Students aren't doing enough to protect themselves from crime.

A car caught on fire outside the Penn Bookstore yesterday at around 12:20 p.m. The damage to the car was extensive, resulting in the charring of the front end. No one was injured. Penn's Division of Public Safety reported that it is still unclear why the car, a dark gray Oldsmobile, ignited.

In just a few months, a new school will debut on campus, but it won't be part of the University. The Jean Madeline Salon and Aveda Institute will be opening in late February at the Hub apartment complex, located at 40th and Chestnut streets. The institute - which trains individuals for professional service in hair, nails, skin and body - will occupy the first floor of the building and will include a store for Aveda beauty products.

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

The InterFraternity Council officially welcomed Zeta Beta Tau as a recolonized fraternity last night. The IFC voted to allow ZBT to rejoin the umbrella organization for fraternities as a colony with provisional membership. ZBT initiated 12 members at the end of October.

Last year's game against Delaware is one that the Penn women's basketball team would rather forget. In its worst loss of the season, Penn was stifled by the Blue Hen defense, putting up only 34 points and losing by a 44 point margin. But even though it's a new year, the Quakers (2-1, 0-0 Ivy) can still expect many features of the Blue Hens to remain the same.

For stressed-out holiday shoppers, Terry Lundgren has a few suggestions about where to go: Macy's and Bloomingdale's. Lundgren, the CEO of Federated Department Stores Inc. - which owns the Macy's and Bloomingdale's department store chains - spoke last night in Huntsman Hall to an audience of about 150 people, discussing Federated's recent acquisition of May Department Stores as well as Macy's nationwide re-branding campaign.

The pharmaceutical industry generates billions each year, and people in developing nations can be priced out of the market. But one Penn student group wants to change that by tackling high drug prices where medicines originate - with scientific researchers, including those at Penn.

Sixty-five percent of the 100 billion e-mails sent every day are spam, according to Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Hari Balakrishnan. "This is an arms race of us raising the fence and spammers jumping over it," he said. Balakrishnan, however, believes he can prevent spam, and he shared his idea - using digital stamps to authenticate e-mails- with 30 faculty members and students yesterday at Levine Hall.

Entrepreneurs aren't made-they're born, Overall Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Richard Caruso told an audience of Penn and Drexel University students in Huntsman Hall yesterday. At an event hosted by the Undergraduate Entrepreneurial Group, Caruso said the Declaration of Independence laid the foundation for entrepreneurship in America by emphasizing the ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.