In the latest stage of an ongoing investigation into the study abroad industry, several colleges, including Harvard, Columbia and Brown Universities, have been subpoenaed for information. After striking big last year with his investigations into the student loan industry, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo turned his sights on study abroad.

James "Booney" Salters still has the electric energy he had when he played on the Penn basketball team, the energy that recently earned him a spot in the Philadelphia Big 5 Hall of Fame. He said he is still riding high and basking in the "emotional" honor he received on January 19 at the Palestra, where he was inducted along with Donnie Carr of La Salle, Rap Curry of Saint Joseph's, and Claudrena Harold of Temple.

Penn captain Ilana Sinskin felt "fantastic." She and her fellow female fencers upset No. 4 Penn State, 15-12. The Quakers have lost to the Nittany Lions the last two years. "Penn State is the toughest team we've faced . I thought we were going to have a shot but I had no idea we were going to win," said Sinkin of the team's triumph over the perennial powerhouse and the defending national champions.

Schuyler Ferguson - College senior - "It's been available online for free for a while, but I guess it's always nice to have paper copies." Wharton junior"I don't read the newspaper too much, but it seems like a good thing . and the Times reports on a wider range of topics than The Journal.

They may be known as Mask and Wig, but the club's tenth Annual Intercollegiate Comedy Festival headliner doesn't need a disguise to attract interest. Kenan Thompson of NBC's "Saturday Night Live" and Nickelodeon's "All That" fame will host the festival, known as ComFest, at 8 p.

This year's women's swim meet against Navy was almost a carbon copy of last year's contest. The teams were evenly matched, the outcome was determined by the same race and the final score was relatively similar. But this time, a different team found itself on the winning end.

In a sport like wrestling, you can go from the brink of winning a match to losing it in a matter of seconds if you don't finish strong. For Penn, too many wrestlers just couldn't close out their matches on Sunday as the Quakers fell to No. 12 Hofstra 25-11 in Hempstead, N.

I dare you. Just try to think of something more relevant to you than real estate prices in the Bronx. Well, thanks to the UA Readership Program, you'll never miss a Knicks box score or a Staten Island Zoning Meeting write-up. You'll always know which new Brooklyn bar is a hit and it will be harder than ever to avoid wondering what Tom Friedman keeps hidden in his mustache.

Avery Lawrence is a College senior from Charlottesville, Va. His e-mail address is lawrence@dailypennsylvanian.com.

With another sub-.500 season in the works, a perpetually half-empty Wachovia Center and a rejuvenated Allen Iverson now snapping nets with the Denver Nuggets, the first month of the 2007-08 season revealed a fundamental truth to the Philadelphia 76ers and their fans: it was a franchise in need of a facelift.

With top-ranked Trinity (7-0) coming to town tonight, the men's squash team finds itself adding new elements to its practice regimen. Contemplating how Penn (5-3) could defeat the Bantams - college squash's premier team for the past decade - one Penn player offered a simple response: "Pray.

Though criminal self-disclosure has been championed as a step toward improving campus safety without an obtrusive criminal background check, its effectiveness remains in question.

Saturday's swim meet against Navy will be unlike any other. The Annapolis pool dictates that races are measured in terms of meters instead of the usual yards.

This Saturday, the 124th Board of Editors and Managers will be inaugurated at the DP's annual banquet.

Professor Modi has arrived on campus. For this semester only, Kalpen Modi - more popularly known as Kal Penn - is an adjunct professor in the Asian American Studies Department, teaching ASAM 109: Asian Americans in the Media.

Though law-school applications are down recently, for some groups of applicants, the decline has more constant. Minority enrollment has decreased in the past decade. First-year enrollments of African American and Mexican American students dropped from 3,937 in 1992 to 3,595 in 2005, according to a recent Columbia Law School study.

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