Perhaps the defining moment in the 2005 season came in Penn-Princeton Homecoming game.

In their last meeting, the Penn football team defeated Lafayette soundly by a 30-point margin. That year, the Quakers went on to an undefeated Ivy League record to win the conference title.

Facebook.com is feeling some growing pains. The site will soon be open to anyone with an e-mail address, and college students have mixed feelings.

The second-ranked Quakers may be opening the 2006 season with an entirely new defensive secondary, but defensive coordinator Ray Priore, who enters his 20th year with the team, isn't fretting.

The Quakers women's soccer team is taking its undefeated act on the road this weekend. Leaving Rhodes Field for the first time this fall, Penn (2-0-1) will travel south to North Carolina to challenge UNC-Greensboro and East Carolina. Even after tying Rice Sept.

The Quakers football team got its season off to a strong start with a 21-11 win to spoil the opening of Lafayette's new stadium today. Sophomore QB Robert Irvin got the start over junior Bryan Walker, who played in several games last season. Senior RB Joe Sandberg had 166 yards and two touchdowns over 24 carries.

The United States boasts the world's largest economy, its strongest army and perhaps the most diverse population in the world. But when it comes to its citizens graduating from college, America can't claim any similar superlative. The United States has slipped behind other nations in the numbers of students who finish their degrees, according to a report released by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, a California-based think tank.

Four years ago at Lafayette, quarterback Marko Glavic was ending a career as the Patriot League's all-time leading passer, and an average-sized kid out of Loveland, Ohio - population 11,219 - was running the Leopards' scout team. Fast forward to 2006, and that kid is now staking his own claim to the history books.

You don't need a player bio, a media guide or an interview with Coach Darren Ambrose to see that Natalie Capuano is a standout. You simply need to head over to Rhodes Field and watch a game. It is obvious, even to those completely unfamiliar with the Penn women's soccer squad.

We at the Solomon Asch Center for the Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict worry about refugees, what causes ethnic conflicts and how to resolve them. Sept. 11 added something important to our agenda: What is the optimal response to the type of threat posed to America and its allies by militant Islamic fundamentalism? Fortunately, research psychology can shed some light on responses to terrorism.

Penn has been ranked the 9th best university in the nation for black students by Black Enterprise magazine. This ranking puts the University is among the top-rated non-historically black schools. The number one school on the list was Florida A&M; University.

Tired of plain-old gas-fueled buses, some are advocating that SEPTA consider a new source of fuel - farm waste.

As Wharton students step into class tomorrow, they will be mirroring the school's very first students, who sat down to class 125 years ago on Sept. 15, 1881. But today's students are a little different "Today's Wharton student is more academically talented, more worldly and definitely more sophisticated and poised," said Management professor Eric Siegel, who graduated from the MBA program himself in 1980.

By Francesca Heintz The Daily Pennsylvanian Jurors in the first-degree murder trial of Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya had not been selected as of noon yesterday, but the trial is still scheduled to begin today, a spokeswoman for the district attorney said in the late afternoon.

Dominating the second half, the Penn field hockey team notched another win on the season by defeating Lafayette 3-1 last night.

Once again, politics is coming before the health of Philadelphia citizens. After City Council finally came together - despite years of infighting - to ban smoking in restaurants, Mayor John Street is threatening to once again ruin everything. The mayor must veto or sign the bill by 10 a.

Hispanic Magazine has rated the University fifth in the nation for Hispanic students. The magazine measured selectivity, graduation rates, student-to-faculty ratios, Hispanic enrollment, cultural programs and organizations, the percentage of Hispanic faculty and the percentage of students receiving financial aid.