Veronica Medina knew for many years that she was a lesbian, but was still married with three children until her mid-30s.

When the 1998 Winter Olympics were held in Nagano, Japan, they brought with them a curious sport that quickly caught on as a fad in the United States.

Determining what makes a person a Native American is harder than you might think, according to Bethany Schneider. Schneider, a professor who teaches a graduate-level Native American literature class at Penn, discussed Indian identity at a meeting of Six Directions, a student-run group focusing on Native American issues, yesterday.

In 1904, a French renaissance manor was constructed at 42nd and Pine streets. Over 100 years later, the mansion is re-opening its doors to residents - this time, to anyone who wants to live there. This January, residents will begin moving into the space, which has been transformed into 28 luxury condominiums as part of a project initiated by Penn.

After earlier mishaps two years ago, SPEC seems to have gotten its act together.

Two students have been charged with aggravated assault for allegedly smashing a beer bottle into another student's ear last week.

Ruckus sure has taken off fast. The free online music service, furnished by the Undergraduate Assembly, has 4,100 Penn subscribers not two weeks after its debut, though it has been unofficially available to students for over a month. But it has detractors as well as supporters, and other schools' experiences indicate it risks losing momentum.

Every year, the Penn Relays attract over 15,000 athletes and 100,000 fans to Franklin Field for one of the country's greatest amateur athletic events. For Frank Dolson, a longtime Philadelphia sportswriter who passed away last weekend at age 73, there was little better in the world than the Penn Relays.

WILMINGTON - A third day of deliberations passed yesterday without a verdict in the first-degree murder trial of Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya, much to the surprise of spectators and lawyers alike.

It was your typical crowd considering the circumstances: 6 p.m. on a Monday in a restaurant that teetered on the edge of Rittenhouse Square, Rouge was about to be flooded with a classy, well-dressed crowd of Center City's clearly sophisticated, pseudo-European crowd.

Penn alum Winnifer Culter might not have made Harvard's list of most influential, but few others have the power to get you lovin'.

When it comes to seafood restaurants in the city, Philadelphia Fish & Company is a catch.

Not allowing students to use computers in class isn't the issue, the problem is why students aren't paying attention.

If you like Italian food, and your wallet is $20 light, Ecco Qui is one of the best Italian spots in Philadelphia. The restaurant at 32nd and Chestnut is tailored to a college student's lifestyle, as it boasts a bar, outside seating, numerous entrees under $10 and iron cast Dragons to show that it is in the heart of Drexel's campus.

Three years, three restaurants. If you go by the numbers, the retail spot at 3716 Spruce St. seems doomed to cater to a never-ending parade of eateries, each incapable of attracting a sizeable following. But what is it really like inside the new Aramark-run freshman hub now known as Savory? Is three times the charm? Being the hard-hitting reporter I am, I decided to brave the hordes of Quadrangle residents and find out for myself.

Old Original Bookbinder's hardly needs an introduction.

Talk-show host Maury Povich stopped by campus yesterday, but no paternity tests were administered. Povich, a Penn alumnus, and his wife, TV journalist Connie Chung, visited the Kelly Writers House yesterday evening to inaugurate the first Povich Writer-in-Residence at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing.