Wrestling produces 2 champs at tourney Penn's wrestling team initiated the season with some promising performances. The Binghamton Open held Saturday in Johnson City, N.Y. was the first trial for the relatively young and inexperienced No. 23 Penn team. Andrew Gold and Cesar Grajales highlighted Penn's performance with a pair of championships.

In taming the Princeton Tigers last Saturday at Rhodes Field, the Penn women's soccer team secured an automatic bid to the NCAA College Cup and clinched a share of the Ivy crown. For this year's squad, that wasn't quite enough. The Quakers overcame what their coach deemed an early week "celebratory hangover" to outlast the Crimson 1-0 Saturday afternoon in Cambridge, Mass.

How's this to cap off a career day? Carrie Biemer hit a turnaround jumper at the last seconds of the Quakers' game against Elon Friday, securing a 56-54 victory. Biemer put up a career-high 28 points in the game and was named most valuable player of the contest.

'Everyone's a little bit racist," according to a song from the Broadway musical Avenue Q. The recently terminated Whole New World diversity training program at the University of Delaware told 7,000 dorm residents otherwise. The program came under scrutiny after students complained that they were pressured into accepting politically slanted views on sensitive topics including race.

Last Monday, the DP hosted its final Open Forum of the semester. A number of you mentioned that you followed our extensive coverage of the University's announcement of its $3.5 billion capital campaign, as well as its plans for eastward expansion. After Thanksgiving break, we'll begin coverage of the trial of Rafael Robb.

Already out of Ivy League title contention, the Quakers traveled to No. 15 Harvard on its Senior Day trying to come out with something positive to build on. After 90 minutes of rough play, all they had to lean on was another loss - this time, by 2 goals to 1.

All whites are racist. At least that's the message that a recently discontinued University of Delaware residential-hall program had disseminated to over 7,000 of its students. As part of a "diversity training" program that students participated in during orientation, freshmen attended training sessions, floor meetings and one-on-one meetings with their Resident Assistants.

In the season opener for both the women's and men's swimming teams on Saturday, the freshman women stole the show. The combination of youth and experience proved successful, as the Penn women defeated Lehigh 227-66 and Rider 195-104, while the men beat Lehigh 182-111 and Rider 166-133.

There's a "celebrity whore." A would-be "gangsta." A father. Pinocchio . And they're all part of the University. The Pan-Asian American Community House has embarked on a campaign to give Penn community members the chance to express themselves anonymously, with blank postcards as canvas.

It's not every day a rising basketball phenom hands back a full scholarship to one of the top college teams in the nation. For Tamir Goodman, the decision came without hesitation. At a Jewish Shabbat dinner held on campus last Friday, Goodman spoke to students of the inseparable roles basketball and religion have played in his life.

Penn students walk past the Richards Laboratories every day on Hamilton Walk. Few realize, however, that the building between the Quad and the biopond is a potential national historic landmark. Historical preservation organization Save Our Sites sponsored a tour of the building complex yesterday.

BOSTON, Nov. 10 - The game wasn't lost when Penn gave up a 20-yard touchdown pass to Corey Mazza at the end of the first half. It wasn't lost when the Crimson scored 10 points in four minutes to open the third quarter. No, the deciding play in Penn's 23-7 loss at Harvard Stadium on Saturday took place on the first snap.

Gov. Edward Rendell's love of dogs brought him to the Penn School of Veterinary Medicine Friday night to speak about his plans for improving Pennsylvania's laws governing the treatment of dogs. Rendell discussed statewide dog kennels conditions and the state's difficulty in enforcing animal-cruelty laws.

Down 37-24 to Drexel by halftime, every Penn fan's fears about the upcoming season were starting to be realized. The Quakers were not only shooting a dreadful 31 percent from the floor, but allowing Drexel to drain wide open three after wide open three, six in all, on the other end.

Loss at Yale takes V-ball out of title race The Penn volleyball team knew coming into the weekend that just one loss would eliminate it from Ivy League title contention. So down two games against Yale on Friday night, the Quakers rallied back to win the third 30-26.

University endowments are safe from government control - for now, at least. Legislation mandating a minimum 5 percent spending rate on university endowments will not appear before the Senate Finance Committee this year, and Penn officials are breathing a sigh of relief.

At 13 years of age, Conor Turley's journey seemed to have come to an end. Instead of enjoying his last year of middle school, Turley spent most of eighth grade in the hospital battling polyarteritis nodosa, a life-threatening disease that occurs when immune cells attack the arteries for unknown reasons.