This weekend, the Penn volleyball team will hope that home-court advantage, as well as aggressive hitting and solid defense, can help it win two games after last weekend's two road losses. Both Harvard (9-10, 3-5 Ivy) and Dartmouth (10-8, 4-4) come to town as the Quakers try to improve on their seventh-place standing in the Ivy League.

There are 12 multicultural fraternities and sororities on campus, most of them small. Recruitment can be difficult, members say. One sorority last year only had one member, who has since graduated and left the organization empty at Penn. But another multicultural sorority has popped up this year, and this one thinks it can survive.

Politicians try to appeal to every voter's pet issue, but they end up contradicting themselves in the process.

Historic Philadelphia isn't just about documents and cracked bells - the city's past is full of spooks, thrills and ghosts, too. In celebration of Halloween, some of the city's oldest institutions are offering a variety of events showcasing Philadelphia's frightening past.

The Penn football team lost in overtime for the second straight week, falling 30-27 to Brown. Until Brown tied the game late in the fourth quarter, it appeared as if the highlight of the contest would be Chris Wynn's 98-yard kickoff return for a touchdown in the third quarter.

Student Health Services Director Evelyn Weiner pleaded with the University trustees at their meeting yesterday for drastic improvements to Student Health facilities. "I sound like a broken record, but ... there is no way we can improve the efficiency ... and maintain the quality of care we have with the facilities we have," she said.

Theft Oct. 19 - A laptop was reported stolen from a Towne Building laboratory. There have been no arrests. Oct. 19 - At about 8 p.m., a gray 1987 Toyota Camry was taken from a metered spot on the 3100 block of Walnut Street. No arrests have been made.

Zygi Wilf may be a billionaire businessman, but in a talk at the Law School, he said that he doesn't expect to make any money off one of his most recent investments. Wilf, who led a group that bought the Minnesota Vikings football team last year, spoke on behalf of the Jewish Heritage Project last night.

Over the past three years, the Psychiatry department received nearly $217 million to study disorders from substance abuse to schizophrenia. Ironically, many of the employees doing the legwork have limited access to quality mental-health care themselves. To better serve the mental health demands of the student population, the University recently increased staffing at its Counseling and Psychological Services office by 25 percent.

Real violations To the Editor: I was walking to campus and I happened to see one of those sticky mouse traps that a Penn kid had let lay by his trashcan. I wouldn't have thought twice about it, but the mouse was moving. It had its face ripped off and was in extreme pain, and some Penn student had left it there to die a very slow death (it takes them days to starve, and they're known to chew through their feet to try to escape).

Homecoming games are usually scheduled to set the home team up for an easy win. The matchup is picked months in advance to ensure that the larger-than-average crowd leaves the game satisfied. But the men's soccer team will not be facing any pushovers tomorrow.

Residents of a new building just off-campus waited weeks to get in - and now some say the rooms still aren't ready for them. Certain floors in the retail and residential building at 40th and Chestnut Streets were scheduled to open for residents two months ago, but construction was delayed due to shipping problems with materials.

Yesterday, we commended the University for setting up an office - in Washington - to lobby the federal government for funds. However, we missed one additional part of the story: Penn is also setting up an office in Harrisburg, the state capital, to lobby the commonwealth for funding and attention to higher-education issues.

Two students charged with aggravated assault against another student will soon face hearings in Philadelphia's lower courts.

If you want to save money, you're going to have to give up your personal information to companies, according to one Penn professor. Joseph Turow, a Communication professor and author of Niche Envy: Marketing Discrimination in the Digital Age, spoke to an audience of about 20 at the Penn Bookstore on Wednesday.

E-mails that clutter your inbox from the dozens of listservs you're on may be a thing of the past. Clubs may soon be able to send you their announcements straight to your cell phone. The Undergraduate Assembly unveiled a plan earlier this month to introduce a service called Mobile Campus to Penn by the end of next semester.

Comparative literature students may find themselves in familiar territory if they take the LSAT in June. Effective June 2007, the LSAT - an exam students take prior to applying to law school - will add a comparative reading section as one of the four sets of reading comprehension on the test.