By Zachary Levine Senior Staff Writer zlevine@sas.upenn.edu Think of it as a warm-up for the Ivy League season. After blowing out Navy 79-58 in Annapolis last night, the Quakers will have less than 48 hours to prepare for a team that presents vastly different looks and challenges from the ones they faced against the Midshipmen.

Fordham's offense was in a rut coming into last night's game. The Rams were shooting only 39 percent from the field and 31 percent from three-point range, but all they needed was a visit to the Palestra.

Next year, frats won't just be counting the number of beers to buy for their next party. Under the newly approved InterFraternity Council "Pillars of Excellence," fraternities can earn points based on their fulfillment of specific goals laid out by the IFC.

A Penn student will face reduced charges of simple assault after allegedly severing part of another student's ear with a beer bottle two months ago.

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

Expect a more sober Quadrangle next year. Fisher Hassenfeld College House will institute a Substance Free housing program that will go into effect next year, the Undergraduate Assembly announced earlier this week. It will be part of the existing Healthy Living program, which focuses on helping students maintain and improve their well-being.

School of Arts and Sciences Webmail crashed for the entire work day yesterday, hindering students and faculty during the last week of classes.

99People infected with E. coli from eating contaminated green onions at Taco Bell.Source: The New York Times

Before construction begins for Penn's 30-year expansion plan, officials should revisit blueprint with fresh eyes.

All fifteen Taco Bell restaurants in Philadelphia - including the Penn Food Court location - shut down yesterday afternoon, according to The Associated Press. The eateries closed after E. coli was believed to have been found in New Jersey, New York and Montgomery County Taco Bell locations.

Glen Miller has not been in touch with former Brown guard Keenan Jeppesen since Jeppesen left Brown earlier this week, the coach said yesterday. Miller coached Jeppesen for two years at Brown before coming to Penn. Jeppesen nearly followed his coach, but his application for transfer was not considered this summer.

The last time an Ivy League basketball team earned an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament was in 1968, when three -time All-American Jim McMillian was a star for Columbia. Anyone who thinks an Ivy postseason tournament will end this drought is optimistic, but wrong.

Just three-hundreths of a second. That was the difference at last year's meet between the Penn and Columbia women's swim teams in the 200-yard freestyle relay. Columbia's narrow victory, the final one of that meet, gave the Lions just enough points to beat the Quakers in a 153-147 decision.

By Matt Conrad Senior Sports Editor mlconrad@sas.upenn.edu The Big 5 is distinctly a Philadelphia entity, but its disciples range far and wide, from the NBA to college coaching staffs across the nation. Billy Lange is one such displaced Philadelphia guy whose career has brought him to the helm of the up-and-coming Navy basketball program.

Step aside, New York City: One writer says Sante Fe could become Philadelphia's true metropolitan competition. In a presentation yesterday afternoon before several dozen people in College Hall, author and Washington Post contributing writer Joel Garreau argued that the rise of the computer will change America's cities just as much as the invention of the railroad or the automobile.

There's nothing like pizza, beer and neighborhood revitalization to mobilize a community. Following a local letter-writing campaign, the Dock Street Brewing Co. pizzeria is set to inhabit the former firehouse at 50th Street and Baltimore Avenue. The building, located across the street from Cedar Park, housed the Firehouse Farmers Market until last year.

The Latino Coalition elected its new board last night, and increasing University Latino recruitment and matriculation rates are already high on its agenda. "I have a lot of friends who say, 'Oh, Penn isn't Latino enough,'" newly elected Admissions Chairman and College junior Ricardo Parrondo said.