Sam Burley called the Franklin Field track home for four years, but he might find it a tad strange when he hits the red track during the Penn Relays this weekend. Instead of donning Red and Blue in the college events earlier in the weekend, the 2003 graduate and former Penn Track star will be running in the Distance Medley Relay this Saturday.

Group aids Jamaican runners in simplest of ways: lunch money

20Percent more men earn, in salary amount, than women do, one year after receiving a degree. Source: Bloomberg News

Chance Pipitone had just shot a 73 to open his weekend at the Ivy League championships, and he was already in a two-stroke hole for day two. The Penn freshman was assessed a two-stroke penalty - it was appealed but not overturned - for showing up late to his tee time.

A contest is hoping to find a just solution for just Jerusalem. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is currently accepting submissions for the Just Jerusalem competition, which aims to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict by focusing on the issues that divide that city.

In the quest to tackle student mental-health issues on university campuses, psychology experts say student isolation and confidentially laws continue to stand as major roadblocks.

Undergraduates looking for cheap housing near campus don't need to worry about the effect that the opening of Domus will have on rental prices, according to real estate experts and local officials. Domus, the eight-story luxury apartment complex located at 34th and Chestnut streets, will open for rent in June, bringing to the market 290 new, high-end apartments targeted toward faculty, staff and graduate students.

The Penn student who appeared on Jeopardy! College Championship in 2007. Who is Kaitlin Welborn? The College sophomore will vie for $100,000 as part of the Jeopardy! College Championship, airing from April 30 through May 11. Welborn traveled to the University of Southern California last weekend to compete against 14 other college students from universities around the country, including Harvard, Yale and Stanford universities.

When picking out classes for next semester, students now have a wider range of writing-based classes to choose from. In the Critical Writing department, the number of non-fiction and journalistic writing classes has grown to 10 for the fall semester. Students still won't be able to major in creative writing or print journalism, but at least the classes are a little more accessible than at other universities.

Princeton athletic director Gary Walters addressed an easy question at Monday's press conference, but didn't tackle a much harder one. The simple question - who will be the Tigers' next men's basketball coach? - had already been answered last Thursday, when Princeton put out an early announcement.

Sayre High School's new health center won't be your normal high-school nurse's office Officials broke ground late last month on a new $1.2 million health center at Sayre, located at 58th and Walnut streets, saying the new building will be a boon for both Sayre students and the West Philadelphia community.

It's all out of their hands now. After finishing over .500 at 23-17 for the first time in 23 years, the Quakers have done their work this season. And now the Penn softball team will have to wait for the results of the Cornell and Princeton clashes over the weekend to find out if it will get another game this season.

The experience of college athletes at the Penn Relays may best be summed up by Arkansas runner Adam Perkins: "Just give me the baton." As usual, an all-star cast of collegiate teams will descend upon Franklin Field this weekend. With 240 colleges and universities, from Abilene Christian to York, bringing teams and individuals to participate in the relays, there are thousands of storylines to follow.

Running is the individual. It is how fast you can go, how hard you can push your body, how badly you want that time, and how much you want to beat yourself. It is about you and your personal performance. Or so the thinking goes. The women of the Quakers' 4x800-meter relay, however, beg to differ.

Philadelphia will need more than stricter gun laws to fix the city's ever-growing violent crime problem.

This season, it seems as though the men's heavyweight crew team can't help but settle for a second-place finish. The Quakers took second yet again this weekend in the Blackwell Cup against Yale and Columbia after the same result against Columbia and Princeton the previous time out.

Penn's Lubavitch House, along with Drexel University's Hillel program, will sponsor a memorial for Virginia Tech professor Liviu Librescu on April 26. Librescu, 76, was killed last Monday, April 16, during a shooting rampage on Virginia Tech's campus that left 33 dead and 24 wounded.