This wasn't supposed to happen to the Penn offense - not after the test it passed in its opener against Lafayette. It looked as if quarterback Robert Irvin had already proven himself capable of getting the ball to his receivers, and Joe Sandberg had shown that he is the type of running back that can carry an offense.

Junior Jason Pinsky won the A-Flight at the Farnsworth/Princeton Invitational tennis tournament yesterday in Princeton, N.J., according to Penn head coach Mark Riley. Freshman Adam Schwartz lost in the consolation match. Other top Quakers, including senior Mikhail Bekker, took the weekend off to allow the freshmen on the team to get some playing time.

One weekend, not too long ago, I met a guy. He asked for my number, and two days later he called me.

The men's soccer team wasn't about to make the same mistake twice. After taking a lead against Harvard, the Quakers didn't wilt like they did against La Salle last Wednesday - they came back for more. Penn ended up a 3-1 winner, putting itself at the top of the Ivy League standings after the first weekend of league play.

WILMINGTON, Del. - Irina Malinovskaya admitted to police that she was outside the apartment where the body of Irina Zlotnikov was found on the day of her murder, according to a taped interrogation shown in court on Friday.

For Ann Dapice, when it comes to the situation of Native Americans in her home state of Oklahoma, one sentence sums a lot up: "Oklahoma does not like Indians." Dapice, who is of Cherokee and Lenape heritage and is a Penn alumna, shared her views on the current status of Native Americans in Oklahoma yesterday at the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology by describing the current state of her hometown.

With no postseason to shoot for in non-conference action, Week 1 for Ivy teams is about figuring out weaknesses in time for league play. For four coaches, whose teams open their Ivy schedules tomorrow, they better hope their players are quick learners. Harvard (1-0) at Brown (1-0) The marquee early-season matchup pits the last two Ivy League champions against each other, and both look a little different this season.

There's nothing better than a free ride. This weekend, NJ Transit will allow college students to use its system for no cost.

Too little outcry To the Editor: Afaf Meleis' recent column ("It's about home - not where you're from," DP, 9/10/06) sheds light on the unfortunate issue of discrimination toward Arabs and Muslims in post-9/11 America. What Meleis fails to note, however, is that Arabs and Muslims can do something about it.

The women's soccer team probably thought its game against Temple on Wednesday would serve as the perfect way to gain momentum for the Ivy opener against Harvard. Twenty-one shots and 21 misses later, the Quakers (4-1-1) found themselves trying to regain their composure and bounce back against a battle-tested Crimson team.

NEW ORLEANS - Ben Franklin High may offer AP Calc, but it's a simple arithmetic problem that's been bedeviling it lately. Before Katrina, the New Orleans powerhouse magnet school was piping about four students per year into Penn, with 17 applicants vying for space in the Class of 2008.

For Karan Shah, fall rush is his big second chance. The Engineering sophomore wanted to join the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity last spring, but couldn't attend a majority of the rush events, eliminating his chances of getting a bid. Yet Shah continued to hang out at the house, where several of his friends are brothers.

Villanova backup quarterback Frank Jankowski lived out every signal caller's dream by leading the Wildcats back from a 24-7 deficit to beat Penn last year - but Marvin Burroughs could only watch. The starting quarterback had broken his arm in two places two weeks earlier in the Wildcats' game against Rutgers, and he missed the entire 2005 season.

Dave Anderson is a College senior from Denver.

Smokey Joe's is about to become smokeless.

If there were ever a time for a wake-up call, this might have been it. On Wednesday, the men's soccer team saw its four-game winning streak cruelly snapped by La Salle. After going 2-0 up against the Explorers, Penn (4-2-0) conceded three straight to its city rival and fell, 3-2.

Jimmy Goldblum is no stranger to the halls of Ben Franklin High. Last spring, the College junior spent six weeks in New Orleans assisting his older brother Josh with the production of an online documentary about the school. Formerly the head of new media for the American Museum of Art as well as a Smithsonian employee, in the wake of Katrina, Josh decided that he wanted to create an online narrative to help educate people about the reality of the situation in New Orleans.