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.

The similarities are striking: Last year, a 6-2-2 women's soccer team lost 1-0 to Columbia and was unable to recover, winning just one of its final five games. Today, four days after playing some of their worst soccer of the season, the Quakers are looking to rebound from another 1-0 defeat by the Lions and avoid a repeat of last year's failures down the stretch.

Ever wonder why you see the same faces year after year in student government? It may be because after freshman year, few people run who aren't already in office. Last year, the presidential candidates for the classes of 2007 and 2008 ran unopposed. Several positions, such as treasurer for the Class of 2007 and College representative for the Class of 2009 even remained vacant, with no contenders vying for their spots.

The Northern Liberties section of Philadelphia is an area that has seen quite a bit of development in the last few years. It is quickly becoming one of the city's hottest spots, and is already home to an array of trendy restaurants and shops.

You may think you are too nice to make it in the cutthroat world of investigative journalism, but, according to Judy Bachrach, even nice people can be good reporters. At an intimate lunchtime conversation in Kelly Writers House yesterday, Bachrach, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair magazine, spoke with a dozen Penn students about her experiences as an investigative reporter.

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.