Penn alumnus Dennis Spivack says his political career began at age six, when he would place bumper stickers on the back of his parents' car. Now, the Democrat is a first-time candidate running for Delaware's sole congressional seat. After fending off his party rivals in the primary last month, Spivack faces popular 14-year incumbent Mike Castle in the election on Nov.

Some friends are coming over to watch the football game in a couple hours. Only one thing is on your mind - we're going to need beer.

Through the men's locker room of Hutchinson Gym, past the squash courts and down a fire escape, is the path that leads you to the basement.

Dave Anderson is a College senior from Denver. His e-mail address is anderson@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Tonight, the Princeton high-school football team will be away at Ewing, and the Hun School travels to Blair Academy. But that doesn't mean there will be no football played under the lights in Princeton tonight. Brown (1-3, 0-1 Ivy) at (24) Princeton (4-0, 1-0) In the first Friday night game in Ivy League history, the Tigers put their undefeated record on the line against the defending conference champions.

WILMINGTON - After deliberating for more than 24 hours over the past week, jurors left court with no verdict once again yesterday in the case of Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya. Malinovskaya is charged with the Dec. 23, 2004, first-degree murder of Temple University student Irina Zlotnikov.

Penn should be preparing its students to be the future leaders of the world, and as such we must be cognizant of racial issues.

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

It was not soccer. Coach Darren Ambrose called it "survival." Fans said that it was more like watching water polo with feet. No matter how you look at it, it was one wild night for the Penn women's soccer team. Despite playing through a mini-monsoon, the drenched Quakers were all smiles after dominating Robert Morris, 6-0, last night at Rhodes Field.

Phillies fans may have wanted to miss the baseball team's most recent late-season collapse, but if you live in a college house, it is not like you had a choice. Comcast SportsNet, the premier network for all things Philadelphia sports, is currently not offered to anyone living in a college house at Penn.

This city gets far too caught up in Eagles mania, and the Phillies get left in the dust for no reason.

Keep the rink To the Editor: I appreciate the awareness of Penn's hockey programs raised by the article ("A team on ice," DP, 10/3/06) on the Class of 1923 ice rink. But the author makes some naive assumptions. Granted, the potential tear-down of the rink will not affect any of the current Penn players, or even those for the next several years, but is that any reason to ignore the problem? Those who are planning the eastward extensions of campus need to be approached now - rather than when it is too late - about changing their plans for the ice rink.

If you thought the Patriot League was too good to lose more than one game to the Ivy League this weekend, you would have been right - were it not for Tom Methvin. The Princeton defensive end stuffed Colgate quarterback Mike Saraceno just outside the end zone to deny the Raiders the two-point conversion on the game's final play on Saturday as the Ivy League continued its dominance in matchups between the two conferences this year.

Yesterday's National Coming Out Day march down Locust Walk gave students a chance to wear their pride on their sleeves - literally. Participants donned pink attire and held hands with members of the same sex as they marched down the Walk

When the birthday cake gets sliced with a sword, you know it's the Navy's special day. The U.S. Navy turns 231 on Friday, and the midshipmen in Penn's Naval ROTC gathered yesterday afternoon in Houston Hall to commemorate the occasion. The flags were presented, anthems were played and a sword was used to do the honors.

Three School of Medicine professors were honored on Tuesday when they were named to the national Institute of Medicine. The institute is part of the National Academy of Sciences, and is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that analyzes and consults on issues related to medicine and health.

The coaching carousel fueled by Fran Dunphy's departure to Temple has finally come to a stop. New Brown coach Craig Robinson filled out his coaching staff by hiring Jesse Agel and former Bears guard Douglas Stewart as assistants. Agel, a 1984 Vermont graduate, was an associate coach for the Catamounts under Tom Brennan for eight years and an assistant for 17 in total.