While the men's tennis team was able to split the singles matches with its opponents, it was doubles that did Penn in this weekend. The Quakers (1-2) fell to both Central Florida on Friday and Maryland yesterday by a margin of 4-3 - with the deciding points coming after the Quakers fell in two of their three doubles matches.

The new point system for room selection in the high rises gives freshmen too much of an advantage.

For the men's swimming team, the last race capped off the most exciting meet of the year. For the women, it was yet another exclamation point during the most successful season in school history. The women cruised to victory over host West Chester Friday night with a score of 182-113.

"Angry White Man" may not be as angry as you think he is. History professor Sarah Igo presented her book The Averaged American - in part about how statistics create incomplete stereotypes of American individuals - at the Penn Bookstore last Thursday night to a cozy audience of just over thirty members.

The "Mooninite" plot to take over the world has been thwarted again - this time, by the Boston bomb squad. Last Wednesday morning, Massachusetts state police were summoned to shut down the city temporarily after hearing about alleged bombs planted throughout the city.

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. - Convicted sex felon and former Penn student Kurt Mitman had his academic-release privileges terminated Friday and will not be able to return to campus until at least September. University officials discovered last month that Mitman - a first-year Economics graduate student who is serving a jail sentence on child-molestation charges - was commuting to class from a Bucks County prison for up to 12 hours a day as part of an academic-release program. In a hearing Friday, Bucks County Court Judge Theodore Fritsch suspended Mitman's academic release after ordering the Men's Community Corrections Center, at a hearing Jan. 17, to develop a proposal that would include more rigorous restrictions.

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

You might know that the United States makes up less than 10 percent of the world's population. You might not know that, as a nation, the United States consumes more than 25 percent of the world's energy, however. That was only one of the harsh realities presented to the 120 students who gathered this weekend at Columbia University for the Ivy Leadership Summit on the future of energy.

After the Quakers' loss to Yale on Saturday, coach Glen Miller wasn't happy. And with good reason - his team had just dropped a game in New Haven for the third time in four years, missed well over half of its free throws, and fallen in the standings behind a team that entered Ivy play with a 4-9 record.

Pitted against a surging Temple squad, the Penn gymnastics team took a step backwards Saturday. At the Liberty Classic Invite hosted by the Owls, the Quakers came in second with a point total of 187.175, three points shy of the Owls (190.15) who are 1-5 including a loss to Penn last weekend.

The second-year Penn Law student who allegedly fired nearly 15 shots into his neighbors' apartment door last Wednesday was arraigned and held without bail Friday.

PROVIDENCE, R.I., Feb. 2 - Unlike Fran Dunphy's return to the Palestra, there would be no need for last-second heroics in Glen Miller's return to Brown Friday night. Miller's Quakers made sure of that early, building a 15-point halftime lead before cruising to a 77-61 victory at the Pizzitola Center.

With an increase in points in each of its first three meets, the Penn gymnastics team has been getting better and better. The team's once-biggest obstacle of youth and inexperience has turned out to be its biggest strength, with freshman Marissa Rosen leading the team in almost every category and with steady improvement throughout the whole team.

Philadelphia Big 5 play is over for the Quakers, but Ivy League play is just heating up. The Penn women (6-10, 1-2 Ivy) are gearing up for the bulk of in-conference hoops, which begins tonight when the Red and Blue host Brown (3-15, 1-3) at the Palestra, and continues on Saturday as Yale (10-8, 3-1) visits the Quakers at 7 p.

As anyone from Providence, R.I. can tell you, Brown's Mark McAndrew has basketball in his genes. Just a few months ago, McAndrew's 11 points helped the Bears upset Providence, their Big East, in-state rival, for the first time since 2001. And for McAndrew's biggest supporter - his father, who is also named Mark - the win was bittersweet.

Although they're both finished with league play, the Penn swim teams both face one last challenge before the conference championship meets when they travel to Division II West Chester today. For the Penn men's team (6-7), the focus will be on the races between local swimmers - including the ones between Penn junior Pat Gallagher and West Chester junior Bill Marcum.