For Wangari Maathai, trees and peace go hand in hand, the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner told an audience that filled Irvine Auditorium Monday night. "Peace is not an abstract concept," Maathai said. "It is impossible to enjoy peace in a world where limited resources on our planet are not managed responsibly and shared equitably.

Smack in the middle of midterms and job recruitment season, School of Arts and Sciences Webmail crashed yesterday. Webmail went down in the late afternoon and appeared to have come back online in the early morning hours today. Officials have not yet disclosed the problem that led to the downtime.

Hold that cab fare - fine dining for the next generation of Penn students is about to move a whole lot closer to campus.

Although the field may belong to the Eagles, the Quakers today will find themselves descending into a lion's den.

As the cliche goes, football games are won and lost in the trenches. Just ask Columbia coach Norries Wilson, who attributed his team's loss in part to "not [being] strong enough physically." Wilson specifically credited junior nose tackle Naheem Harris for thwarting the Lions' running game during Penn's 16-0 win on Saturday.

With less than three weeks to go, Election Day is fast approaching, and it's not too early to get prepared. Between selecting a governor, a senator, a congressman and a state representative, there are a lot of choices to make, all of which should merit careful thought and decision.

At Saint Joseph's University, diehard basketball fans like to say that "the Hawk will never die." For one year though, the Hawk will be forced to flap its wings outside of Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse - and quite possibly in the Palestra. The 3,200-seat arena is slated to be part of a $25 million athletic facilities project that St.

Alicia Puglionesi is a College sophomore from Havertown, Pa. Her e-mail address is puglionesi@dailypennsylvanian.com.

When Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) and his Democratic challenger Bob Casey Jr. met last week, viewers saw a lot of mud slung.

Mariangela Bernardi is in her office at the David Rittenhouse Laboratory when a student enters, complaining about the scoring of a question on a test for a class not taught by Bernardi. She looks at the question and briefly sketches out an answer, explaining which variables and which equations are necessary to solve it.

The neighborhood still faces problems with vagrancy, but something good is happening in Cedar Park, according to Cedar Park Neighbors president, Carol Walker. About 45 residents of University City's Cedar Park neighborhood braved the rain to attend the meeting in the Calvary Community Center at 48th Street and Baltimore Avenue, which focused on discussing ongoing and potential improvements to the area, especially on Baltimore between 45th and 50th streets.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Driving east on Interstate 40 out of the city, all that meets the eye are the staples of the American countryside: trees, cows and barns.

Women enter Penn in greater numbers than men. They graduate in greater numbers, too. But in elected student government in recent years, women are sorely lacking. The last time a woman was president of any class board was over three years ago, when Meredith Seidel led the Class of 2004.

For the second time in two weeks, Penn will be looking to rebound from a disappointing loss to an Ivy foe, this time against a weak non-conference Rider team tonight at Rhodes Field. The Quakers (7-4-1, 1-3 Ivy) are coming off a 1-0 defeat to league leader Dartmouth.

While the typical art history professor might give a lecture on Picasso's "Guernica," Richard Meyer says he would rather discuss "Picasso's dirty drawings on napkins." "I'm interested in the stories that get left out of art history," Meyer said. A visiting professor from the University of Southern California, Meyer has done extensive work on censorship and the role of sexuality and gender in contemporary art.

These are not your older brother's Quakers. If your older brother was around in 2002 and 2003, he saw the Penn football team play 20 games and score more than 30 points in 16 of them. He also saw Penn outscore opponents 709-286 for an average margin of 21 points per game.

On Friday, former Penn basketball coach and current Temple head man Fran Dunphy celebrated the official kickoff of the season with a "Midnight Madness" celebration. His replacement, new Penn coach Glen Miller, began the new era of Quakers' basketball in a more subdued way - with a practice that was closed to the public and the media.