Just over a week before Opening Ceremonies for the Beijing Games, the Ivy League has launched a blog to help fans follow the action for Ancient Eight alumni competitors The web site, Iviesinchina.com, contains links to bios for all Ivy League alumni competing in Beijing, as well as articles and other information relating to the Ivy League and the Olympics.

After 21 years at Penn, Ilene Rosenstein, director of Counseling and Psychological Services, is leaving Penn to take on the position of director of the University of Southern California's counseling services. Although this is her final week at Penn, she will have two weeks of vacation before her official last day on Aug.

The number of DUI arrests made in Philadelphia has increased this year as a result of increased vigilance by the city's police department. According to the Philadelphia Daily News, the Philadelphia Police Department's Accident Investigation Division reports that DUI arrests this year have increased by more than 700 since the same time last year.

Theft July 23 - A female unaffiliated with the University, 54, reported that an unknown suspect broke the window to her vehicle in a parking garage located at 34th and Chestnut streets and removed a laptop and other personal property at about 2:45 p.m. July 23 - A female University employee, 42, reported that an unknown suspect removed cash from a locked drawer at Presbyterian Hospital at about 2:30 p.

The 34th annual International Conference on High Energy Physics is taking place in the Perelman Quadrangle July 29 to Aug. 5. More than 100 of the world's leading particle physicists from over 70 countries will attend ICHEP08, the largest physics conference this year.

The argument between Penn and Princeton fans about the caliber of their basketball teams may have just been settled objectively. ESPN released a quantitative ranking of the "prestige" levels of 300 NCAA Division I basketball programs since 1984-85. The Quakers came in at No.

Public officials should not pass off racism as harmless jokes, avoiding open discussion and accountability.

When Elizabeth Murray joined the Harvard class of 2003, her story became a national sensation. She lived on the New York City streets for years after being born to drug-addicted parents and eventually found inspiration in education after her mother's AIDS-related death - a story that was turned into the Emmy-nominated Lifetime movie, Homeless to Harvard.

Penn should give students more opportunities to buy used textbooks.

Celebrate, Philadelphia! Hug your neighbors. Throw a parade. Riot in the streets. The drought is over; the curse has ended; Billy Penn has relented on the punishment he doled on the city two decades ago. The Philadelphia Soul have won the Arena Bowl, finally bringing a professional sports championship to the City of Brotherly Love.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham's loss could turn out to be Penn's gain. Tamir Jackson, a 6-foot-2 shooting guard from St. Benedict's Prep in Newark, N.J., recently de-committed to UAB's Class of 2013, according to Zagsblog.net. He names Penn as one of his options.

A one-of-a-kind art residency program is coming to campus this fall. The Fine Arts Department in the School of Design and Kelly Writers House are collaborating to offer an artist and a writer shared living space and individual studios for the upcoming academic year through the ArtsEdge residency project.

With over 80 known sleep disorders, advanced nurses studying the critical issue of sleep need to be adequately prepared. Until recently, there was no sufficient educational program that could provide post-graduate nurses with the groundwork necessary to apply theoretical concepts of sleep medicine for implementation in practice and research.

Throughout his lifetime, Walter O'Malley was a trailblazer. And now, even after death, he continues to be a pioneer among his kind. As owner of the Dodgers, he was instrumental in bringing baseball to the West Coast. And now, with his induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday, he becomes the first Penn alumnus ever to be enshrined in Cooperstown.

Theft July 17 - A male student, 20, reported that an unknown suspect removed money from an unsecured room in the Quadrangle at about 2:45 p.m. July 17 - A male student, 22, reported that an unknown suspect removed his secured bicycle from a meter outside Levine Hall at about 11:45 p.

Northwestern University School of Law's decision to offer a quicker route to graduation - a two-year alternative to its traditional three-year program - is spurring debate about legal education. The accelerated program - the third of its kind in the country and the first at a top-tier school - compresses the same number of credits into five semesters for 25 to 60 students who will enroll alongside about 240 traditional students.

In the cold of January 1983, Judy Wicks brought home cooking to new heights when she opened a humble take-out coffee and muffin shop on the first floor of her residence at 3420 Sansom St. 25 years later, White Dog Cafe is commemorating its past with a year-long celebration of the restaurant and its social and environmental activism.