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

His nearly flawless brackets over the years have earned him the title Doctor of Bracketology, but at the end of the day ESPN bracketologist and Saint Joseph's communications guru Joe Lunardi is more or less an ordinary guy. Just ask his six-year-old daughter, whose selections beat her dad's last year when she picked bracket-busting Butler because she thought butlers look like penguins, and she likes penguins.

Nearly half of the attendees of last evening's Werner Herzog forum were turned away due to safety concerns. Packing the aisles, the back and the outside, 800 people from the University community and Philadelphia tried to cram into Meyerson Hall's auditorium 40 minutes before the event, entitled "Was the 20th Century a Mistake?" They missed work, visited Philadelphia for the day - anything for a chance see the popular German filmmaker.

Anyone who's surprised that 2-4 Brown's passing attack leads the conference in touchdowns, has the third-fewest interceptions and leads the entire FCS in passing yards hasn't been around the Ivy League very long. Or at least not before 2003. Ever since Phil Estes took over in 1998, his Bears have run an offense that spreads out the defense and then picks it apart.

The Penn women's tennis team may have found a new out-of-conference rival. Four Penn players and five from William and Mary, a top-15 team last year, reached the round of sixteen at the ITA East Regional. Three of the Tribe eliminated Penn players in the singles bracket.

WILMINGTON, Del. - During closing arguments yesterday, lawyers focused as much on Robert Bondar's integrity as on that of murder suspect Irina Malinovskaya. The Wharton undergraduate's defense lashed out at Bondar in its summary, saying he has become "a master of manipulating" the facts of the case and implying that his testimony about Malinovskaya's obsession with him was unreliable.

Forget for a second that Penn's chances at an Ivy football title took a serious hit with its second league loss Saturday. What is going on in that Quakers locker room is its own significant story, where a group of men is getting more than it ever bargained for.

Philadelphia Runner, a local specialized running store located on 16th and Sansom streets, will open a second store next to the Inn at Penn in December. Manager Ross Martinson said the store will carry many of the same products as the Center City store, including running shoes and apparel.

Before Judith Rodin ascended to the Penn presidency and busted the West Philadelphia crime cartels, there was the 45th Street mosque and its war on drugs. In the early 1990s, West Philly was at the center of a murderous imbroglio of gang wars and gun violence.

The inspiration for the title of yesterday's panel on the media and Islam? A Public Enemy track. "Don't Believe the Hype," hosted by Penn's Muslim Student Association as part of Islam Awareness Week, delved into common misrepresentations of Islam in Western media.

This week is Asian Pacific American Heritage Week, Greek Week, Islam Awareness Week and Terrorism Awareness Week. Oh, I almost forgot, it's National Respiratory Health Care Week, too. Thank God I'm not an Islamic sleeper-cell terrorist of Asian Pacific heritage who lives in a frat house and suffers from asthma.

University President Amy Gutmann, Provost Ron Daniels, faculty and student leaders met yesterday afternoon in Bodek Lounge for the year's second meeting of the University Council. The UC discussed issues relating to Penn's recently announced $3.5 billion capital campaign, PennConnects and the PennAlert security-notification system.

At first glance, Radian seems like a great idea. The complex, being constructed at seemingly record speeds on 39th and Walnut, offers a laundry list of amenities, sits on prime real estate and will do that much more to address Penn's dearth of student housing.

Amy Gutmann is slowly becoming a "world-class rock star." Sort of. Since the kickoff of Penn's $3.5 billion capital "Making History" campaign, news of the school's undertaking has appeared in a variety of publications, from The Philadelphia Inquirer to The Times of India.

The 10 Wharton freshmen lounging around a cramped Huntsman Hall study room are barely recognizable from the quiet group that, less than one month ago, held a very polite Management 100 meeting in an empty classroom. Brief skirmishes over the prices of rentals have replaced apologies for interrupting each other's arguments, and debates about hanging large banners have overshadowed tangential conversations.

With products from Tiffany's, Sephora, Prada and Ann Taylor Loft all in one room, the MBA cafe in Huntsman Hall was transformed into a girl's paradise, if only for just one night. The second annual "Dress for Success" was held by Wharton Women last night, and though it was a perfect opportunity to let shopping therapy ease midterm stress, this silent auction had a more serious aim.

She dreamed the dream as a Princeton undergraduate and drafted the plan during her senior year. A year later in 1989, Wendy Kopp was looking out at an audience of the first 489 recent college graduates who had signed up to be members of Teach for America, the national corps that would grow to pioneer the movement against educational inequity in the United States.