On the surface, it seems like the Penn women's basketball team may be in for a rough season. The Quakers finished in fourth place in the Ivy League with a 12-15 overall record last year, but the team graduated four seniors - who combined for 70 percent of the team's scoring.

As the University moves forward with eastward expansion, officials need to realize that the best plans for urban housing aren't always the best policies for the University. Leasing land to outside developers to build off-campus housing complexes - like Radian - increases the tremendous diversity of housing options that Penn students enjoy.

On the surface, it seems like the Penn women's basketball team may be in for a rough season. The Quakers finished in fourth place in the Ivy League with a 12-15 overall record last year, but the team graduated four seniors - who combined for 70 percent of the team's scoring.

Summary of crime in the Penn patrol area.

WILMINGTON, Del. - The jury in the murder trial of Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya has still not reached a verdict, and attorneys familiar with the trial say the length of deliberations is unprecedented in Delaware murder cases. Today, the jury enters its tenth day of trying to determine the guilt or innocence of Malinovskaya, who is accused of bludgeoning Temple University graduate student Irina Zlotnikov to death in Dec.

With responsibility for raising $310 million of the University's $3.5 billion capital campaign, Penn's six resource centers are charged with making a significant contribution. But undergraduate and graduate schools, for example, have loyal alumni with incentives to give - how do you fundraise when you don't have an obvious constituency? At the six centers - the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Penn Athletics, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Penn Libraries, the Morris Arboretum and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology - development directors are faced with this challenge as they try to mobilize their constituents to reach campaign goals.

WILMINGTON, Del. - After eight days of deliberations, the jury still has yet to render a verdict on the first-degree murder charges against Irina Malinovskaya. Malinovskaya, a Wharton student, allegedly bludgeoned to death her ex-boyfriend Robert Bondar's girlfriend, Temple University student Irina Zlotnikov, at Bondar's New Castle, Del.

When Cornell junior quarterback Nathan Ford went down with an injury in the first half at Dartmouth, the Big Red found their answer in the wide receiver corps. Playing three quarters under center in relief, sophomore wideout Stephen Liuzza managed to pile up the third-highest passing yardage total in program history, with 423.

Developers are notorious for replacing community centers with shopping malls, but Jonathan Rose wants to change that. Rose and Whitney Foutzis, of the planning and development conglomerate Jonathan Rose Companies LLC, spoke to City and Regional Planning students at the School of Design last night about rebuilding cities with a revolutionary set of principles.

What was billed as a two-headed monster didn't seem very heady at all. Princeton's senior quarterback tandem of Greg Mroz and Bill Foran looked like it might threaten a Penn defense reeling from an encounter with Brown's nation-leading passer Michael Dougherty.

The Undergraduate Assembly traveled across campus to Harrison Rooftop Lounge on Sunday night, where pizza and cookies were provided in an effort to attract students. The meeting, moved for the night as part of UA Cross Campus, focused on a number of initiatives aimed to better on- and off-campus student activities.

In a paper released on Oct. 31st, Donna Nelson of the University of Oklahoma highlights the lack of tenured and tenure-track underrepresented minority faculty in the top 100 departments of science and engineering disciplines. Nelson states that having fewer underrepresented minority (URM) faculty members creates a shortage of mentors for minority students that can decrease the appeal of academia.

There are no national contests. The mayor's race is a foregone conclusion. It's Election Day - but you may not know it.

For a person with just over 8 percent of support in the polls, Republican mayoral candidate Al Taubenberger is remarkably optimistic. "I'd say I have about a 50-50 shot," he says. "For one thing, I'm going to do a lot better than the last poll indicated." Optimism seems to define the plucky, enthusiastic candidate, who will square off today against Democratic nominee Michael Nutter.

Whenever a high-profile controversy emerges among student groups, one organization is almost always involved: the Undergraduate Assembly. Over the last few years, the UA's role in mediating student conflicts has increased significantly, with student leaders often turning to the UA for help when trying to reach a compromise.

The mission of the College is to educate tomorrow's leaders - in science and medicine, in the arts and culture, in government and politics and in the non-profit and profit sectors. Rather than providing training for specific careers, the College's liberal-arts approach prepares its students to take on the manifold challenges society will face in the future.

Mayoral campaign Our Endorsement: Michael Nutter (D) This past May, we supported Michael Nutter in the Democratic primaries because he had the experience and vision necessary to tackle the city's rising crime rate and corruption in City Hall. Although we commend Republican candidate Al Taubenberger for running an honest and civil campaign, Nutter would do the best job as mayor in helping Philadelphia fulfill its role as America's next great city.