Maybe it's the lucky number. Or maybe it's the all-natural ingredients. Maybe it's the skill of chef/owner Michael O'Halloran.

Dim-sum is unlike any eating experience you have at a typical restaurant, a chaotic yet gratifying experience.

Former Penn Anthropology professor Arjun Appadurai challenged America's top research universities to redefine themselves yesterday. The past three decades have brought a knowledge explosion, Appadurai said, and that revolution and its digitization have diluted the university's role as a place for research.

Yesterday was the last day for voter registration in Pennsylvania, and Penn groups will soon see whether their efforts to bolster the student electorate paid off. While an official count is not yet available, elections experts say that voter registration is generally up in Philadelphia, but not as significantly as during a presidential election year.

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

It's rare that a victory is a wake-up call, but that's exactly what happened to the football team when it narrowly escaped losing to perennial Ivy pushover Dartmouth two weeks ago. But after closing out its non-conference schedule with a decisive win against Bucknell on Saturday, it was clear that Penn had responded.

In many sections of campus, Penn's sidewalks are in shabby condition.

Both Cuban and American, Achy Obejas says she still has a firm sense of identity. And countries, as well as people, need to reconcile contradicting images of themselves, she says. The writer spoke yesterday afternoon at the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center in the Carriage House about identity and its implications in society.

This is a takeout campus, not a restaurant campus. We've got Qdoba, the Greek Lady and food trucks galore.

The number of black students on Penn's campus would significantly decline if the University were to end affirmative action in the next 25 years, a new study predicts. Economists from the University of Virginia and Princeton University projected that without the program in place, significantly fewer black students would attend college.

New men's basketball coach Glen Miller has yet to run an official practice, but the first-year coach has already landed his first two recruits for the Class of 2011. First, point guard Harrison Gaines committed to the Quakers last week. Gaines is 6-foot-1, 175 pounds and plays for Serrano High School in Phelan, Calif.

In the metaphorical game of dodgeball, Penn just may be the fat kid sitting on the sidelines.

When Division I-AA Montana State recently upended a mediocre Division I-A Colorado football team, the result was considered a monumental upset. So imagine a sport in which top varsity teams are consistently threatened - and often beaten - by a club-level squad.

Following a nail-biting double-overtime victory against Columbia and on the heels of a No. 3 ranking in the Northeast Division by the NSCAA, the men's soccer team is riding high. It's been four years since the Quakers (7-2-1, 3-0 Ivy) and Scarlet Knights (7-6, 4-4 Big East) last met.

With a win over Dartmouth already under its belt, the Penn football team looks to go 2-0 in Ivy League play when it takes on Columbia. There's a good chance that a sentence like that will appear in the football preview found in Friday's Daily Pennsylvanian.

Wondering how to make sure your next party doesn't get busted by the police? Yesterday, C.L. Lindsay presented a step-by-step guide to serving alcohol at a party while avoiding legal trouble in Rodin College House's Rooftop Lounge. Lindsay is the executive director of The Coalition for Student & Academic Rights, which he founded in 1998 to help college students with legal issues.

Stephen Starr got it all wrong.