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.

Lately, the Temple-Saint Joseph's series has done wonders for the Owls' postseason prospects. The two teams met in the Atlantic-10 tournament finals last year, and Temple's dramatic victory earned it the league's automatic NCAA bid. Similarly, last night's matchup was less about Big 5 bragging rights than about the A-10 horse race.

To kick off this Valentine's Day weekend, Penn women - and a few men - sipped cocktails and nibbled pastries in support of breast cancer research. As part of Women's Week, the Chesed Committee of the Orthodox Community at Penn hosted an event called "Pink Dessert.

After beating Brown by 21 Friday, the Quakers went into New Haven, Conn., and hung tough for their third Ivy League win, 68-63, over Yale. Harrison Gaines was everywhere in the first half, racking up 14 points and four boards, two of which came on the offensive end on one possession that resulted in two made free throws.

Forgive Brown coach Jesse Agel for sounding less than concerned about his backcourt. "We'll do our best to free our guys up," Agel said of his guards, waving off the question. Though Brown's dismal 0-6 Ivy record (6-14 overall) has a lot to do with how different the Bears' perimeter looks this year - Agel lost his All-Ivy guard duo of Mark McAndrew and Damon Huffman to graduation last spring - his squad's outside presence isn't what he'll need against Penn (5-13, 1-3 Ivy) tonight in Providence, R.

For Leandra Kern, a staff member at the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Valentine's Day last year meant a ski trip to Vermont with her boyfriend. But the state of the economy this year has forced them to take their celebration down a notch. "We are doing dinner and a few presents this year, nothing big," said Kern.

Columbia's wrestling facilities may be much closer to the iconic building, but recently it has been the Cornell grapplers putting the "Empire" in "Empire State." Despite their name, the Lions (2-10, 0-4 EIWA) are much tamer than the Big Red (8-2, 1-0), who rank third nationally.

If the Netter Center has its way, students at other schools may soon understand what an ABCS course means. Penn's Netter Center for Community Partnerships is using a new gift from Barbara and Edward Netter to spread Penn's model of community education to other regions, beginning with the University of Oklahoma at Tulsa.

Almost a year to the date after Jeff Orleans announced that he'd step down as Ivy League executive director as of June 2009, the Council of Ivy Group Presidents announced yesterday that Robin Harris will replace Orleans effective July 1.

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

On a Sunday afternoon last month, members of The Vagina Monologues sat down for a group arts and crafts project. The assignment? Represent the Penn vagina. At the 2009 performance, those posters will be on display for the audience. The designs turned out to be "completely different" from one another, according to College senior Rachel Garber, the producer of the play at Penn.

Just think of Rob Belcore as the Scottie Pippen to Zack Rosen's Michael Jordan. That is, if your Scottie was a slightly scruffy college freshman with a penchant for video games, and your Michael is his six-foot, carrot-top roommate from North Jersey. Yes, the analogy isn't a perfect fit for Belcore and the red-headed Rosen.

There are many valid reasons for students to climb the stairs in the high rises: It's often quicker if they live on the first three floors; enough trips up could replace 10 minutes on the Stair Stepper; it's proper etiquette so those living on the 24th floor can get home a minute or two faster.

The spirit of Juicy Campus, the infamous online gossip site that shut down last Thursday, lives on. In its place comes CollegeACB.com, or the College Anonymous Confession Board, which seeks to give "students the freedom to voice their opinions and ask questions about any facet of college life," according to a press release on the Web site.