When the Penn football team heads up to Harvard tomorrow, it will find itself in an all-too-familiar role at this point in the season. Out of contention for the Ivy League championship yet again, the Quakers can only hope to ruin the Crimson's hopes for another league crown.

With Harvard and Princeton holding out until the spring, could a binding early-decision acceptance to Penn be not so binding? The possibility of early admitted students breaking matriculation agreements is usually fairly marginal, but this year marks the first admissions season in which students will not have the option to apply early to Harvard and Princeton universities.

It's hard to know how honest players and coaches are being when they call Penn senior captain Brian Grandieri a "tough competitor." After all, the term does get thrown around a lot in the world of sports. But when his own mother feels that those two words are what best sums him up - maybe they're all on to something.

DuBois College House is the smallest and arguably the most racially and ethnically diverse of the 11 college houses at Penn. Less than 200 students live in "The House," as it is affectionately referred to by current occupants and alumni whose experiences at Penn were shaped by living and learning at DuBois.

As College junior Lindsay Docto handed out flyers for a United Minorities Council forum on diversity, most students said Penn was already diverse enough - after all, look at all the people of different ethnicities walking down Locust Walk. "Yes, but are they walking together?" Docto asked to start the student-led "Divided Diversity" discussion last night at Greenfield Intercultural Center.

'If you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek," says the mysterious figure in the Guy Fawkes mask, "then I ask you to stand beside me one year from tonight, outside the gates of Parliament, and together we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever be forgot.

Ever wonder what Rosie the Robot might have thought about the Jetsons? Or how the Roomba vacuum cleaner avoids sweeping away the house cat? Manuel DeLanda, a professor of architecture at Columbia University, spoke on the history of artificial intelligence and the place it holds in modern society at a lecture last night at the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology's Rainey Auditorium at Penn Museum.

A mistrial was declared today in the murder trial of Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya. The ruling marks the third hung jury in Deleware's prosecution of Malinovskaya. Judge James Vaughn discharged the jury after the foreman informed him that further deliberations would not yield a verdict.

Apple's Mac OS X Leopard operating system is the newest toy for early technology adopters, but users will have to do some extra tinkering in order to use it on Penn's wireless network. While Leopard, officially released on Oct. 26, lacks the "must-have" cachet of some Apple products like the iPhone, certain tech-savvy students have been quick to upgrade.

Yusef Anthony thought participating in a Penn-conducted study on Johnson & Johnson bubble bath would be a safe way to earn easy money. And so during his first week as an inmate in Philadelphia's Holmesburg Prison, Anthony was led into a cellblock-turned-laboratory.

Three schools in the Ivy League have set their sights on bold campus-expansion plans. But while Penn is sitting pretty with a blueprint to expand into the Postal Lands directly east of campus, plans at Columbia and Harvard Universities to extend into non-adjacent neighborhoods have created a host of issues.

I left my Negotiations class last week in a rage. I thought about taking on the Locust Walk squirrels in a brawl, but decided that the bloated bottom feeders would probably win. Before any PETA members get up in arms, let me explain. I was provoked by the sight of future bankers behaving badly.

Joanne Tong is a Wharton senior from Manila, Philippines. Her e-mail address is tong@dailypennsylvanian.com.

College senior Artina Sheikh, a Muslim who wears a head scarf, sat in the LGBT center Tuesday night fielding questions from students about Islam and homosexuality. Sheikh, along with other members of the Muslim Student Association, were invited by Queer People of Color, a branch of the LAMBDA Alliance, to discuss the interplay of religion and sexuality.

Ever wonder how many pounds that center on the women's basketball team is giving up to her opponent? Well, tough luck. You won't find it on Penn Athletics' Web site, and you won't find it in the game program. As a matter of policy, sports-information staffs at colleges around the country do not publish the weights of female athletes.

With the season opener coming up against Drexel on Friday, the Quakers have more options at starting point guard than days left to decide who it will be. Now that Ibrahim Jaaber is gone, head coach Glen Miller could conceivably see four different players bringing the ball up the Palestra court for the home team.

Coach Mike Schnur says this could be fastest Penn men's swimming team ever to enter a pool. So why would Schnur only set a goal for finishing within the top five of the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League? Those familiar with EISL swimming should know about powerhouses Princeton and Harvard.