Feeling stressed over finals? Try yoga. The Penn Women's Center touted this method at a Free-Yoga-Free-Yogurt event this past Saturday. During the event, nutrition counselor, massage therapist and yoga instructor Jillian Bird took students' minds off life's daily stresses by teaching basic yoga moves.

Inauguration tickets are on every political junkie's holiday wish list this year. But falling short of that, the Office of the Vice Provost for University Life is getting a lucky group of students as close as possible. At midnight on Jan. 20, a bus full of Penn students will leave campus bound for Washington, D.

ORLANDO, Fla. - When the Quakers finally took the stage again tonight against Central Florida after a record 24-day layoff it was just for more of the same as before the break. Penn fell 81-64 to UCF in the second game of the UCF Holiday Classic and dropped into the third place contest tomorrow against 3-7 Campbell slated for 4:30 p.

To say that the Penn men's swimming team took the cake at the Jan. 3 Florida Atlantic Invitational would be an understatement. The men placed first with a score of 830.5, defeating Ivy League rival Brown by a margin of 264.5 points in a league-sanctioned dual meet.

Up 14 at halftime against Lafayette, Penn could have turned in a poor second half like it did against Campbell last week. Instead, the Quakers got a trio of threes to start the half, as Tyler Bernardini, Zack Rosen and Rob Belacore drained deep balls on three successive possessions to key Penn's 9-2 to start the second frame.

As posted on CarePages, a HUP Web site where patients' families can post messages and updates. First, on behalf of myself, Beverly, Emily, and Colin, we want to thank everyone here today and the hundreds of our friends, Ryan's friends, and our family who have focused their thoughts and prayers towards Ryan and our family over the last week.

For many freshmen, today isn't just the beginning of a new semester - it's the start of their introduction to the Greek system on campus. Penn's fraternities and sororities are putting on their best show for prospective members, offering free food and a good time spread out over a wide variety of events.

After getting knocked down by a better team, it's good to have an inferior one to bounce back against. That was how the men's squash team felt, as it rebounded from an 8-1 thrashing at the hands of No. 3 Yale to dominate No. 14 Brown by the same score. "It's refreshing to be able to go from a bad performance to a pretty good performance," junior Mark Froot said.

Women's tennis coach Mike Dowd will resign effective December 31. Assistant coach Sara Schiffman, a 2006 Penn graduate who was a captain for the Quakers both her junior and senior years, will be interim head coach through the spring semester. "I have made the difficult decision that I need to step down at the end of the month as head coach of women's tennis," Dowd told Penn Athletics.

Students made the lives of underprivileged Philadelphia residents a little bit warmer this past Sunday night at the Hillel Soup Kitchen. Over 80 guests showed up at Hillel's Warm Winter Evening this weekend to take part in a charity dinner and raffle put on by the Hillel Soup Kitchen and the University City Hospitality Coalition.

Engineering sophomore Ryan Smith passed away early Thursday morning following injuries suffered in a fall from the Quadrangle on Saturday. Matt Waller, spokesman for the office of the Vice Provost for University Life, said Smith passed away about 3 a.m. at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

Yale's home fans were making a lot of noise at the women's squash match against Penn on Saturday, but the Quakers stole their thunder. Tuning out the spectators, the No. 2 Quakers prevailed, 5-4, giving No. 5 Yale a loss in the Bulldogs' first match of 2008-09.

Desperate for a win, the Penn basketball team soothed its wounds with a 78-67 victory over Campbell on Tuesday night. It was just the second of the season for the Quakers; their other came against Monmouth back on Nov. 22nd. "When you go out and work hard everyday in practice and you're trying to compete, it's a relief and you feel good about that," Miller said.

Penn men's and women's fencing coach Dave Micahnik describes himself as a perfectionist. As a recent inductee into the U.S. Fencing Hall of Fame, Micahnik is always looking to improve his teams' performance. On Saturday and Sunday, both teams began their seasons at the Philadelphia Multi-Meet in Hutchinson Gymnasium.

Penn trauma director John Pryor, a major in the Army Reserve Medical Corps, died Wednesday in Mosul, Iraq, after suffering wounds from mortar rounds near his living quarters, according to a Department of Defense statement.