The following is an excerpt of the one and only episode of 'Pig Penn,' which aired Oct. 5, 1990.

Alicia Puglionesi is a College sophomore from Havertown, Pa. Her e-mail address is puglionesi@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Some are graduate students. Some are middle-aged and balding, their college days long behind them. Others are running for political office, but their T-shirts and moptop hair appear more fit for a Grateful Dead concert than the campaign trail.

Text-messaging may have taken impersonality to the next level in America, but it is literally changing language in China, according to one scholar. Victor Mair, a professor in Penn's East Asian Languages and Civilizations program, along with his colleagues Brian Spooner and Aslam Syed, spoke yesterday afternoon to an audience of about 20 at the Penn Museum on the evolution of language, in both written and spoken forms.

The Lock Haven Lady Eagles came into Sunday soaring on a nine-game winning streak, but left Franklin Field with clipped wings. Their vaunted offense was held to just one goal on four attempts as the Penn field hockey team downed the Eagles, 2-1. Before their game against Penn (4-7, 1-2 Ivy), they had outscored their last nine opponents by a ludicrous 45-5 margin.

Voters "have to drain the swamp that is Washington, D.C.," Nancy Pelosi told a crowd in Logan Hall's Terrace Room. The Republican Congress has made a mess of everything from Iraq to education, but the Democrats can clean it up, Pelosi (D-Calif.), the U.S. House of Representatives Minority Leader, announced to students Friday morning at a rally on Penn's campus.

A price too high To the Editor: I have been attending Penn Hillel High Holiday Services for 30 years. They have been my Jewish place of worship, my linkage to organized Jewish life, through school at Penn, family religious events and many a soulful search.

There are a number of simple changes that could vastly improve quality of life for international students at Penn.

LEWISBURG, Pa. It was only the first quarter, but the Quakers already knew that a win was on the way. That's when sophomore quarterback Robert Irvin connected with wide receiver Braden Lepisto on a play-action pass for a 72-yard touchdown on the fourth drive of the game.

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

Students must understand the teacher tenure process, since it decides which teachers stay and which teachers go.

It may not have access to the precognitive psychics featured in the 2002 Tom Cruise movie Minority Report, but a new city parole force working with Penn's criminology center is trying to prevent potential murderers from killing. Penn's Jerry Lee Center of Criminology, in partnership with the First Judicial District of Philadelphia, is in the process of launching a homicide prevention unit that will try to determine which paroled felons are most likely to commit murder and assign them special parole officers.

Weaving humor through the serious themes of politics and coming of age, poet Daisy Fried charmed an audience that smiled, laughed and applauded as if on queue. Yesterday evening, Fried, who taught writing at Penn three years ago, read selections of her poetry at the Kelly Writers House.

When the Quakers walk off the bus in Cambridge, Mass., they will be focused one thing: defense. The Penn volleyball team's first Ivy League victory hinges on its ability to defend a much-improved Harvard team. Much of this defensive responsibility rests with senior libero Liz Hurst, who has the team focused in the right direction.

Yale University will make videos of class lectures available to the public on the Internet next fall, the university has announced. The initiative, financed by a private grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, will put class lectures, transcripts, syllabi and other materials from select courses on the Internet for free.

The duo of Yulia Rivelis and Julia Koulbitskaya are held to high expectations this weekend at the National Tennis Invitational in New York. Both players are first-team All-Ivy honorees who last year led the women's tennis team to a second-place finish in the ECAC Championships in addition to qualifying for the NCAA Tournament.

Real violations To the Editor: On behalf of Penn Faculty and Staff Against War on Iraq, I must challenge the accuracy and fairness of your coverage of our Teach-In ("An antiwar evening in Huntsman," DP, 9/21/06). The opening line "Penn faculty revived a protest technique" carelessly omitted the staff who played a critical role in organizing this event.