The Ivy League's distinction of being the only conference in the country without a postseason basketball tournament may be coming to an end.

The year was 1971. The Baltimore Colts were champions of Super Bowl V. Joe Frazier was heavyweight champion after winning the first of three epic fights against Muhammad Ali. The Penn men's basketball team was 28-1 and ranked in the top 10 nationally.

Nicknamed "Willing and Able" in his senior-class yearbook for the Penn School of Design, Julian Abele - pronounced "able" - was an overachiever. When he graduated from the School in 1902, Abele was president of the Penn Architectural Society, the recipient of numerous architectural awards and was poised to join one of Philadelphia's top architectural firms.

Marissa Rhodes spends her days surrounded by books. But, unlike the students who will retreat to Van Pelt Library during the next few weeks of studying before finals, it's Rhodes' job to think about what everyone else is reading. As the Penn Bookstore's trade floor manager, Rhodes oversees all the non-textbook titles in stock - a collection that runs the gamut from the classic works of Jane Austen to celebrity chef Rachael Ray's popular series of recipe books.

As a criminal-malpractice lawyer, Penn alumna Joan Saltzman has seen everything that might go wrong in an operation. Presenting her book, Mr. Right and My Left Kidney, at the Penn Bookstore last night, Saltzman described overcoming her doubts about donating a kidney to her husband.

Visit the University of Delaware's Web site, and you'll find the smiling face of Wharton Dean Patrick Harker displayed above the celebratory headline "Presidential Search Completed."

When you've listened to as many coaches as I have tell you how much respect they have for every opponent, you begin to distinguish the sincere from the phony. And unlike the coach who sings the praises of a Dartmouth team, Villanova head coach Jay Wright was dead serious.

With 11:22 remaining in Sunday's game, Villanova star forward Jackie Adamshick received a pass from teammate Tia Grant and promptly drained a jumper. The Palestra scoreboard tacked on two more points, showing a 48-34 score - the Wildcats' largest lead over the Quakers of the afternoon.

New Wharton Dean will have to build on Harker's innovative ideas, global focus and fundraising prowess.

53MCopies of the Madden NFL series video game sold worldwide in the last 17 years. Source: The Washington Post

Desperate students trying to cram in an extra hour of studying this week will now be able to do it in Van Pelt Library. At the request of the Undergraduate Assembly, Carton Rogers - who runs Penn's libraries - decided to keep Van Pelt open until 2 a.m. from yesterday through the end of exams.

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

Perceptions about body weight don't stop at the scales anymore. "Fat studies" is a growing interdisciplinary area of study at universities across the country, devoted to examining discrimination and stereotypes against the fat body and studying the collective experience of fat people in society.

Cornell learned this weekend that young talent could provide the team with a boost, but that its unseasoned core is not yet prepared to deliver a tournament championship. Looking for a chance to win its first in-season tournament since 1990, Cornell needed a catalyst in the semifinals of the William & Mary Tip-off Classic.

Course-management industry giant Blackboard faces what will likely be a critical legal challenge after a group of open-source advocates filed a formal request to have the company's 44 patents revoked. The open-source groups are alleging that the patents - which were awarded to Blackboard in January - would give the company a virtual monopoly on online learning technology by allowing Blackboard to use the patents to sue its competitors.

Since 2003, Arab militants, known as the Janjaweed, have murdered over 400,000 African Muslims in the Darfur region of western Sudan - and some say the Sudanese government has paved the way. Aaron Dorfman, director of Jewish education at the American Jewish World Service, described these atrocities before a group of about 50 people at the Kelly Writers House last evening.

International students of legal drinking age can't get in to many local bars, because they won't accept foreign IDs.