Ever taken a three-year test? Most likely not, but Ivy League fencers are currently in year two of their three-year-long evaluation. Two years ago, the Ivies agreed to implement a new schedule format on a "trial basis," as Associate Director of the Ivy League Chuck Yrigoyen described it.

In the latest rankings, Penn has finally broken through the traditional Yale-Harvard-Princeton triumvirate. In illegally downloaded movies, that is.

If Ibrahim Jaaber wants to play with the big boys, now's the time to start impressing scouts. In the opening game of the Portsmouth Invitational last night, Jaaber logged 18 minutes and five points for the Tidewater Sealants, who lost to the Holiday Inn-Portsmouth contingent, 110-71.

Penn cannot continue to alter security policies only after an incident has occurred.

25Millions of estimated American children 17 and under who are obese or overweight. Source: Here

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend elaborates an almost foreign political view: that of the religious left. The Former Lt. Governor of Maryland and Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the United States came to speak last night at Logan Hall about her recent book, Failing America's Faithful: How Today's Churches Are Mixing God with Politics and Losing Their Way.

The Penn Dems are doing all they can to get the word out about absentee ballots - it's time for students to step up.

Baseball, Softball both pushed back after rain Due to inclement weather, the Penn softball and baseball teams' games were all postponed yesterday. No makeup dates have been announced as of last night. The baseball team had been scheduled to play at Lehigh at 6 p.

Last week, U.S. News & World Report ranked the Penn School of Nursing's masters program third best in the nation, after the University of Washington and the University of California, San Francisco. The program was also third last year. The Veterinary School ranked fourth, down from third.

Spring Fling directors announced yesterday that just over 500 of the 2,000 available guest passes have been sold, about the same number that had been sold at this time last year. Engineering junior and Spring Fling co-director Lindsay Motlin said she does not expect a spike in guest pass sales due to the April 13 Ben Folds/Third Eye Blind concert.

Tyler Morris shrugs his shoulders at Philadelphia's degree of bike-friendliness. "It's average," said Morris, a College junior and a daily bike rider. "They make an effort to accomodate bikers." But if Alex Doty, executive director of the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, has his way, bicycling in Philadelphia will never again be just an "average" experience.

The Recording Industry Association of America has no right to ask colleges to reveal the identities of students who are downloading music.

Why Harvard's search for a new hoops coach should be about more than finding a winner.

Last Friday evening at Jack's Firehouse, Andy Toy stood on the second floor of the fashionable Fairmount restaurant, planting the seeds for a successful run for City Council.

Penn has settled for its suspect loan policies, but problems are on a nationwide scale

Didn't expect the women's lacrosse team to beat then-No. 12 Johns Hopkins last week? Too bad. The then-No. 14 Quakers pulled out a dominating 12-4 upset in Baltimore.

Last Wednesday at the University Council meeting, role call may have gone a little something like this: President? Here. Provost? Here. Student government? Here. But one group was noticeably underrepresented: faculty.