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Men's basketball blew out the woeful Brown Bears in Providence, R.I., tonight by a score of 73-52. Brown kept it close in the first frame, battling to a 21-21 tie with 7:04 left in the half, but a rare Brennan Votel three-pointer set the Quakers on a 9-0 run that also featured a Cam Lewis slam and lay-up.

Updated Feb. 14, 6:54 p.m. About 2,000 people -- a quarter of the undergraduate student body -- have received prophylactic medication so far after a third Penn student was hospitalized for a meningococcal infection, according to University spokeswoman Phyllis Holtzman. The third student is still in critical condition today. Holtzman said no new cases were reported Saturday.

Vengeance will be on the minds of the women's squash players when they step on the court this weekend. The nation's top college squash teams will convene in Cambridge, Mass., today through Sunday for the 2009 Howe Cup. It's also the Quakers' one last shot at redemption.

By JOE SANFILIPPO Staff Writer sanfilippo@dailypennsylvanian.com The men's squash team is looking for some love this Valentine's Day - nothing tawdry, just a win to close out the regular season. No. 7 Penn (7-5, 2-4 Ivy) heads to Rochester Saturday for a midday match with the up-and-coming Yellowjackets (9-5), currently No.

Behind senior captain Carrie Biemer's 28 points and third double-double of the year, the Penn women's basketball team took home its second straight Ivy League victory with a 66-49 win over Brown. The Quakers used an 18-2 run over eight and a half minutes in the first half to take a commanding lead.

This week on Locust Walk, "vagina" is the new "register to vote." As part of a week-long campaign to eliminate a taboo and promote the play, members of The Vagina Monologues have been inundating passersby with the word "vagina" from their table outside the Penn Women's Center.

Starting next month, a few more squirrels will call Penn home. The Penn Art Club will be placing between 20 and 25 larger-than-life squirrel statues on Locust Walk and College Green between March 16 and April 19. The group is following in the footsteps of cities like Chicago, New York and Los Angeles which in the past have featured cows, angels or other figures decorated by prominent artists.

When it comes down to it, we respect and follow the leaders we feel we personally know best. So really, that's rarely Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton or Tiger Woods. Instead, the leaders we tend to emulate are those we directly interact with. One of those leaders is Nicholas Kristof, the New York Times columnist who travels all over the world to report on the world's most heinous crimes against humanity.

Valentine's Day in New Haven. This Penn team just can't catch a break. But after a historically bad weekend in Philadelphia - in which the Quakers endured their first Ivy League weekend sweep at home since 1968 - Yale's cozy John J. Lee Amphitheater might not be as bad as it seems.

The University of Pennsylvania Press received a grant of $1.16 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation last week. The money will go toward publishing scholarly books on literatures of the non-Anglophone world. Penn Press will share the grant with Fordham University Press, University of California Press, University of Virginia Press and University of Washington Press.

Are you frustrated by the lack of silverware in 1920 Commons? Think Hill needs air conditioning? This might sound like the beginning of a freshman's campaign speech for student government, but don't worry, it's not. The UA has (yet another) survey out, and this time, they want to know .

Two students have been hospitalized with meningococcal infections and 100 others who may be been in contact with them have been preemptively treated, according to Student Health Services Director Evelyn Wiener. One student is in stable condition after treatment.

Alumni pay PGSE's worth forward To the Editor: In his column "A Tough Lesson in Economics," (DP 2/06/2009) Ryan Benjamin poses the question "At what point do we say, 'Enough is enough', and let the overall health of the Commonwealth come first?" Good question, but the better question is what is truly best for Pennsylvania? Ryan suggests that the Governor's School programs here in Pennsylvania will not be missed.

Last night, mayors from all over the country congregated in Houston Hall for the opening night of the 43rd national session of The Mayors' Institute on City Design. The event featured speeches by Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter and Charleston, S.C., Mayor Joseph Riley.

If momentum is what the Quakers were looking for, they surely have it. Coming off a huge win over Cornell last Saturday, the Penn women's basketball team is looking to continue its confidence in this weekend's matchups. The Quakers (4-15, 1-4 Ivy) will host Brown tonight and Yale tomorrow.