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

The last time Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.) was in Houston Hall, he was a work-study student running the arcade next to Houston market. Yesterday, he returned to Penn's student union to give a speech honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. sponsored by the School of Nursing and the Office of Diversity and Cultural Affairs.

Relationship Status: It's Complicated. While Facebooking classmates during lectures, few students stop to consider the implications their involvement in social networking sites have on their daily lives. Facebookology: The Effects of Social Networking on Relationships, a Women's Week panel discussion, sought to explore the issue last night.

It certainly isn't the first time that Penn and Princeton will come into a game at the Palestra neck-and-neck in the Ivy League standings. And it certainly won't be the last. But in this new era of Ancient Eight basketball, the historic rivalry game won't be a battle for first place, or even for second.

College junior Meredith Jones, 21, was arrested early Friday morning at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania after she allegedly assaulted a female hospital employee during treatment, Division of Public Safety officials said. The incident took place at about 2:30 a.

On the day of the Pennsylvania primary, choosing a candidate will be the hardest part. But in some other states, registering to vote can be an even bigger challenge. As the youth vote becomes increasingly pivotal this election year, young voters are facing additional requirements before they are allowed to cast a ballot at their respective voting precincts.

Student life and safety were the main topics on the agenda at Sunday night's Undergraduate Assembly meeting as the body tackled housing, printing, a student union and security improvements around campus. - The Housing Committee announced it will soon put out a survey for students on academic support at the University.

When the use of data analysis seeped into the Roger Clemens steroids saga, four Penn professors shifted their focus from the Wharton curve to the Rocket's splitter. On Jan. 28, Hendricks Sports Management, the agency that represents the seven-time Cy Young Award-winner, released an 18,000-word statistical report aimed at disputing that Clemens had taken performance-enhancing drugs.

Penn students are usually pretty vocal about letting the administration know exactly what they want. Cheaper printing! A longer add/drop period! Better high rise elevators! But a proposal to install an energy-producing wind turbine in the "wind tunnel" on Locust Walk? Now, that's a different story.

Whartonites no longer have to make their way to Van Pelt to print for eight cents per page. Last December, Wharton computing labs lowered their price from 10 cents per page for black-and-white printing to meet the level charged at libraries and other locations on campus.

International students entering the United States have to worry not only about their student visas and bank account, but also about a basic necessity to keep in touch with their families back home - a cell phone connection. Most mobile phones require a social security number, or at least a credit history.

SPEC Jazz and Grooves announced last week that Medeski Martin & Wood, or MMW, will perform at its annual spring show on Feb. 19 at 8:30 p.m. in Irvine Auditorium. An American jazz trio formed in Brooklyn in 1991, MMW is composed of John Medeski on the organ and keyboards, Billy Martin on drums and percussion and Chris Wood on acoustic and electric bass.

Pennsylvania is one of 17 states ranked as being at "high-risk" for voting-machine mishaps by the nonprofit organizations Common Cause and the Verified Voting Foundation. However, state officials and students varied greatly over whether this recent report is cause for concern.

ITHACA, N.Y. - Saturday night may have marked a change in the Ivy League guard. In front of a raucous Newman Center crowd, Cornell defeated Penn 87-74 and took a stranglehold on the early championship race. Cornell's victory effectively knocked the Quakers (7-14, 2-2 Ivy League) off their pedestal as the league's dominant team and propelled the Big Red (14-5, 6-0) to that perch.

The University announced its master plan earlier this month for a sustainable Neural and Behavioral Sciences building, which is slated to be operational in September 2011. The building will be designed by SmithGroup, an architecture firm with a reputation for sustainable design.

Brown and Harvard were left quaking in their singlets this weekend, as the Quakers opened inter-Ivy competition by defeating them both. Despite a tiring week of training, Penn was able to make quick work of the Crimson and Bears, beating them 30-7 and 25-9 on Friday and Saturday, respectively.

For the two Penn squash programs, it was a weekend of exhilarating highs and humbling lows. While the men's squad suffered a tough 6-3 loss to Harvard in a match senior Spencer Kurn hoped would be "the pinnacle" of the Red and Blue's season, the women wrapped up the Ivy League crown and an undefeated regular season with victories over Harvard and Dartmouth.