The announcement that the two convicted sex offenders who had been working for the University would no longer be employed at Penn coincides with a University discussion about changing Penn's hiring and admissions policies that Provost Ron Daniels said is "well underway.

Milton Street says that Philadelphia has major problems, and that it should be up to a former hot-dog vendor and duck-boat tour operator to fix the city. Last Thursday, the older brother of Mayor John Street announced he was entering this year's mayoral race as a Democrat, despite an upcoming federal tax-fraud and corruption trial that is scheduled to start May 14, the day before the Democratic primary.

It was a wild weekend for the Penn women's basketball team, in which - for better and for worse - nothing really went as expected. After getting picked apart by then last-place Columbia 65-46 in New York City on Friday, the Quakers (9-13, 4-5 Ivy) made the long trip up to Ithaca, N.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Recovering from "the most disappointing day of squash I've ever had" wasn't easy for senior and co-captain Paula Pearson or her Penn teammates. And it was a bittersweet weekend for them at the Howe Cup in New Haven. A No. 2 seed in the championship tournament, the Quakers expected nothing less than at least a berth in the final - and a national title was well within their grasp.

Saturday started and ended well for the women's tennis team. But the time in between left much to be desired. After sweeping the doubles against No. 14 Virginia Commonwealth, the Quakers lost the singles 5-1 to fall in the overall match, 5-2. The team rebounded with an easy 5-0 win over Georgetown (1-2) only hours afterward.

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Daniel Schwartz is a College freshman from Decatur, Ga. His e-mail address is schwarm@sas.upenn.edu.

Penn hopes eastward expansion will connect the University to Center City, but students are already going out of their way to experience life beyond College Green. The city is full of opportunities, ranging from the Philadelphia Museum of Art to the man who plays guitar on 13th and Market streets every Saturday, and students are finding creative methods to take advantage of them.

In its quest to catch up to perennial Ivy League powerhouses, the women's swimming team had the best season in program history. Unfortunately for the Quakers, the teams they were chasing got better as well. The Penn swimmers came up just short in reaching their elusive third place goal at the Ivy League Championships, finishing only 49 points behind Yale.

If you were a little baby trying to catch a nap in Dad's arms up in Section 207, this was your kind of week. The Quakers played five home games in nine days, going 5-0 and drawing a combined crowd of 26,982. And you still wouldn't have been awakened until Ibrahim Jaaber threw himself an inbounds pass off Andrew Naeve's back Saturday night.

The two convicted sex offenders discovered by Penn officials last month to be working for the University are no longer employed at Penn, University officials said Friday. University spokeswoman Lori Doyle confirmed that the two employees are no longer affiliated with the University but refused to provide further details about the reasons for their departure.

Were you disqualified from a student election last year for early campaigning on Facebook.com? Well, the race is on once again: The Nominations and Elections Committee has officially gone Facebook-friendly. The NEC, the branch of student government that handles elections, passed four amendments last week adjusting election procedures, and two will have a major impact on the election processes for the Undergraduate Assembly and Class Boards.

Despite what most schools would have you believe, black Americans are under-represented at top-tier universities, and that number, dissatisfying to some, has raised issues concerning black identity in academia.

Richard Smith knows the value of a good pair of gloves. In an attempt to avoid the cold, Smith stands near the entrance to the subway at 40th and Market streets, trying to absorb some of the heat coming from underground.

The Penn gymnastics team just can't seem to shake Towson. At the Shelli Calloway Memorial Invitational, the Quakers finished behind the host Tigers for the third time this season. Towson (193.5) won the meet and Cornell, an Ivy League and ECAC rival, came in second at 189.

Penn's mentoring program for middle schoolers emphasizes the importance of pursuing a degree at a critical age.

Working at an unpaid summer internship is hard enough without having to worry about expensive room and board.