Two prominent Democrats came to campus to spread their message yesterday, but a major focus of the event was why not to vote Republican.

Dear athletic director Steve Bilsky: Sixteen days from now, the men's basketball team will have its first Palestra tip-off of the 2006-07 season. Like many Penn students, that day cannot come soon enough for me. However, too many students do not know that day is coming at all.

Lepisto and Carre have over 450 yards each, while no other WR has eclipsed century mark.

Four of the most powerful women in Penn's administration have had to face the difficulties of being among the first minority women in their positions. Yesterday afternoon, those women spoke about their success in the professional world as part of the 20th annual celebration of the Women of Color organization at Penn.

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

Millions of hurried passengers depend on taxi drivers, but relatively rarely to they talk to their drivers about history, politics and justice. Last night, however, members of the Penn community had the chance to do just that with Biju Matthew and Ronald Blount at a dinner and discussion at the Greenfield Intercultural Center.

Professors will try almost anything to get you to sign up for their classes.

Nili Gold's class on Hebrew literature always appealed to a niche audience. The students - typically 12 to 15 each semester - had to have determination to enroll in a course taught entirely in Hebrew. But the class fulfilled a distributional requirement, which Gold said made it easier for them to justify taking such a specialized class.

Editor's note: In the interest of better serving the campus community, starting today we will be featuring a club sports roundup every Wednesday. If you play a club sport and would like your team to be included, have a team captain or coach send an e-mail to MLConrad@sas.

If you run into trouble on Election Day, Penn's school of government wants to know about it. The Fels Institute of Government is once again helping to sponsor the national voter hotline, which got about 208,000 calls during the 2004 presidential race. Anyone can call the hotline to leave a voicemail reporting a problem encountered while trying to vote.

The new year will bring a new version of Windows, and Penn officials promise any students with the new software continued compatibility with campus technology. Microsoft is expected to release Windows Vista, the newest Windows operating system, in January.

Penn men's soccer coach Rudy Fuller knew that Brown was going to play defensively on Saturday. So when it came time to name his starting eleven for the crucial match against the Bears, he left sophomore Ryan Porch on the bench in favor of classmate Kevin Unger.

Two seasons ago, Glen Miller said the following after a win at Yale: "I think we all wish, except for a few teams in our league, that we had a postseason tournament. It's frustrating that we don't have one." Last week at the Red and Blue Scrimmages at the Palestra, Miller was asked what he thought about an Ivy League tournament.

When University President Amy Gutmann throws a party, she draws a crowd. Gutmann's house at 3812 Walnut St. was open to students last night for a Halloween party with a theme inspired by the Broadway musical "Wicked." A pavilion was set up in her backyard, and after walking through the house to reach it, students could get their picture taken with Gutmann.

If the Penn women's swimming team fulfills its expectations this year, it will shatter the Quakers' record books. After achieving the best Ivy finish in Penn history last year, this year's team returns 10 school record holders. Also, the loss of only one senior to graduation coupled with the team's highly touted freshman class means that the sky's the limit.

Head up Locust Walk toward Qdoba, and you'll eventually find an affront to the community. That's what Robert Christian, writing for the University City Review, calls Plateau. The perforated steel sculpture debuted on the field at 40th and Locust streets last year amid protest from guardians of good taste all over Penn.

Philadelphia is undertaking a citywide initiative to get greener - and officials are looking for college students' input. Fourteen city agencies have come together to form Green Plan Philadelphia, which aims to ensure that residents have access to open space in their neighborhoods.