'How willing are you to marry an average-looking person that you liked, if they had money?" This simple question rekindled a debate on Internet message boards over a topic older than John McCain, Ben Franklin and even Valentine's Day itself - are relationships based on the quest for love or money? Last December, The Wall Street Journal ran a column discussing the results of a nationwide survey in which they posed this exact same question to 1,134 Americans.

Yesterday, members of the Penn community got the opportunity to listen, laugh and learn from one of its own, Penn alum and accomplished journalist Brian Tierney. Tierney, publisher and CEO of The Philadelphia Inquirer and CEO of the Philadelphia Daily News, addressed a group of 36 students, faculty and alumni at the St.

When Mathematics professor Erik van Erp began teaching in America, he was struck by a focus on grades that didn't exist in his native Holland. Astronomy professor Ravi Sheth was thrown off by students using teachers' first names - a norm not found in India, where he grew up.

The cursory numbers are enough to tell you about the Penn-Princeton basketball rivalry over the past few decades. The two P's have had a hand in 46 of the past 49 Ivy titles. In the past 19 seasons, no other Ivy team has been to the NCAA tournament. Three years and three Penn Ivy titles later, the rivalry had lost something.

The prospect of an 11-story hotel in a residential neighborhood near campus has become a contentious subject among residents. Tonight, the Zoning Committee of the Spruce Hill Community Association is holding a meeting to discuss the proposed extended-stay hotel, which would be located at 40th and Pine streets.

The stats didn't support the outcome tonight. Penn shot 38.6 percent from the field and Princeton shot 50 percent. Penn converted 17 baskets and Princeton had 24. Penn scored 20 points in the paint and Princeton had 42. Yet the Quakers still won. Princeton had a distinct advantage in almost every offensive number but one - free-throw shooting.

Reaching the end of an economics scenario, professor Rebecca Stein said, "Let's go ahead and draw our production possibilities frontier." She drew the graph, helping me understand a concept that had been a bit confusing when I had first tried to understand it from my textbook.

Sometimes even trash can become a work of art - or be the cause for one. Students from the Residential Advisory Board and the Penn Environmental Group painted murals in the trash room in Ware College House and outside the Starbucks under 1920 Commons, respectively.

Whether students were attempting to relive the past glory of the rivalry or hanging on to the slight hope that the Quakers could turn the season around, the Red and Blue Crew was out in full force for last night's game. "Everybody always comes out for Penn-Princeton," said senior Abraham Dauhajre, who shows up to every home game in a taco costume.

Tracy McIntosh, the former Penn Neurosurgery professor who pleaded no contest in December 2004 to sexually assaulting his college roommate's then-23-year-old niece in 2002, will be resentenced this morning in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. The resentencing should bring closure to a lengthy legal battle that began in March 2005 when McIntosh was sentenced to 11-and-a-half to 23 months of house arrest, probation and fines and restitution to the victim, who was about to enter Penn's School of Veterinary Medicine.

It seemed like the kind of high-powered event you'd expect during "Women's Week." There were women sporting power suits and Hillary hairdos. There was a spread of catered fruit trays. There was the official logo of the Trustees' Council of Penn Women, promising us college girls wisdom from generations past.

It might be surprising that the Penn employee helping you plan your career also makes jewelry on the side for friends and family, but then again you probably haven't met Senior Associate Director at Career Services Kelly Cleary. Raised not far from Philadelphia in Dallas, Pa.

Attorneys for the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania have filed their response to the lawsuit against HUP and several of its doctors filed by the family of College sophomore Anne Ryan. The response motions for the dismissal or modification of several of the lawsuit's claims.

The first Penn-Princeton affair of the year did not feature the high stakes of past meetings. Each team had a 2-2 Ivy League record coming in. But for all the talk of rebuilding, Penn has not fallen as far as Princeton. The Quakers' 70-65 victory gave them a winning mark in the Ivy League and pushed the Tigers (5-15, 2-3 Ivy) further into the conference doldrums as their slump now approaches four years.

When times are hard and the fear of unemployment looms above, what do people do? Go back to school and get an MBA. According to an article in the Financial Times, deans and admissions officials at business schools say that MBA applications increase during or just before an economic downturn, such as the one facing the U.

Robbery Feb. 7 - Kumasi MkWelli, 60, of the 7800 block of Mercury Ave., was arrested by Penn Police for allegedly attempting to leave CVS, located at 3409 Walnut St., without rendering payment for items at about 7:15 p.m. Assault Feb. 6 - Michael Joyner, 31, of the 200 block of N.

When College alum Philip Rosen graduated last year, he started working in July but found that his job would not provide him with health insurance until October. That left him in a predicament few students anticipate: how to obtain decent health insurance promptly after graduation.