The phrase "adding insult to injury" was never more appropriate. After seeing its quarterback go down with what could be a season-ending knee injury, Penn saw its Ivy title hopes follow suit - the Quakers fell 34-27 at Franklin Field to Brown, which now has sole possession of first place in the conference.

Jack Wagner's work as Auditor General earns him another term. The incumbent is best known for his audit of the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, which exposed massive amounts of wasteful spending by the organization and led to much-needed reforms.

Alumni flooded campus for Homecoming this weekend, and the annual event was particularly sweet for the brothers of Zeta Beta Tau. The Theta Chapter of ZBT celebrated its 100th anniversary this weekend and honored Trustee Emeritus and '45 alumnus Leonard Malmud for his service to the fraternity.

For five years, the men's soccer team had been humiliated time and time again by Brown, going winless while failing to score in the process. But at Rhodes Field on Saturday, the Quakers returned the favor. Led by two goals from Omid Shokoufandeh, the Quakers beat the Bears, 4-0, in an unexpectedly one-sided affair that propelled them into a tie for first place.

The executive committee of the Student Activities Council elected College junior Natalie Vernon as its new chairwoman last week. Vernon will replace former SAC chairman Eric Van Nostrand, a Wharton and Engineering senior. Vernon and Van Nostrand sat down with the DP yesterday to talk about SAC's successes from this year and goals for next year.

In what is sure to be a Democratic year, we hope voters won't reject Tom Corbett because of his Republican label. This incumbent has done a great job these past four years fighting gun violence, protecting the elderly from fraud, and cracking down on child predators.

The presidential election isn't until tomorrow, but Penn students have already decided they want Barack Obama to be their beer-pong-champion-in-chief. Nearly 70 percent of students, according to a new poll conducted by The Daily Pennsylvanian, would rather have a beer with Democratic nominee Barack Obama than with Republican nominee John McCain.

LGBT POLICY McCain McCain defines marriage as being between a man and a woman, but he also believes individual states should decide whether to pass constitutional amendments affirming this definition of marriage. He does not support marriage benefits for same-sex couples.

Name and Title: Sen. John Sidney McCain III Party Affiliation: Republican Birthday: Aug. 29, 1936 Birthplace/Where he has lived: McCain was born on a military base in the Panama Canal Zone when it was under U.S. sovereignty. He grew up in Alexandria, Va.

This weekend, the eight on-campus sororities are holding Open Houses, a time for informal conversation between sisters and interested underclassmen. If you had asked me as a freshman whether I was attending this event, I would have responded with a look of disdain and an emphatic, "No.

Name and Title: Sen. Barack Hussein Obama Party Affiliation: Democratic Birthday: Aug. 4, 1961 Birthplace/Where he has lived: Obama was born and grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii but spent part of his childhood in Jakarta, Indonesia.

With its Ivy League title chances on the line on Senior Night, the women's soccer team had plenty of motivation in Saturday's matchup against Brown. But as Bears senior Lindsay Cunningham's third game-winning goal of the season soared into the far corner 5:54 into the first overtime, several Quakers could do nothing but sink to the Rhodes Field turf or hang their heads in dismay.

The Volleyball team won both of its matches this weekend, beating Columbia 3-1 yesterday before pulling out a 5-set thriller against Cornell. The Quakers dropped the first set to Columbia, 25-22, and then won three in a row. Julia Swanson had her best in a string of good games, amassing 21 kills on .

Five blocks from the Philadelphia Museum of Art is a different kind of intrigue, one worth checking out this Halloween. The Eastern State Penitentiary is the site of Terror Behind the Walls, now into its 18th Halloween season. The 11-acre, 179 year-old compound of decaying cellblocks and abandoned guard towers sets a suitably sinister tone for a Haunted House.

Wall Street's crisis, with all its influence, does not seem to be preventing students from going abroad. With rising flight prices - an 8.1-percent increase in the second quarter alone according to the Transportation Department - and the dollar's slide against currencies such as the euro and the pound, students have many things to consider before embarking on that four-month international trek.

Mice daunt the world. Several countries have nuclear weapons, but we're at a loss when it comes to fist-sized rodents invading our sacred human space. The good news for mice is that nobody understands the underlying issue. Complain to people (landlord, exterminator, loved ones, compassionate teddy bear) about your mouse problem, and they'll respond in the same way: Lay down mousetraps.

Don't expect any fireworks tomorrow at Rhodes Field. Penn (9-2-2, 3-1 Ivy) and Brown (9-4-1, 3-1) have combined for 16 shutouts this season - eight apiece - and are about as evenly matched as possible. In recent years, however, the Quakers have been dismal against their foe from Providence, R.