The presidential election isn't until tomorrow, but Penn students have already decided they want Barack Obama to be their beer-pong-champion-in-chief. Nearly 70 percent of students, according to a new poll conducted by The Daily Pennsylvanian, would rather have a beer with Democratic nominee Barack Obama than with Republican nominee John McCain.

LGBT POLICY McCain McCain defines marriage as being between a man and a woman, but he also believes individual states should decide whether to pass constitutional amendments affirming this definition of marriage. He does not support marriage benefits for same-sex couples.

Name and Title: Sen. John Sidney McCain III Party Affiliation: Republican Birthday: Aug. 29, 1936 Birthplace/Where he has lived: McCain was born on a military base in the Panama Canal Zone when it was under U.S. sovereignty. He grew up in Alexandria, Va.

Name and Title: Sen. Barack Hussein Obama Party Affiliation: Democratic Birthday: Aug. 4, 1961 Birthplace/Where he has lived: Obama was born and grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii but spent part of his childhood in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Jack Wagner's work as Auditor General earns him another term. The incumbent is best known for his audit of the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, which exposed massive amounts of wasteful spending by the organization and led to much-needed reforms.

Alumni flooded campus for Homecoming this weekend, and the annual event was particularly sweet for the brothers of Zeta Beta Tau. The Theta Chapter of ZBT celebrated its 100th anniversary this weekend and honored Trustee Emeritus and '45 alumnus Leonard Malmud for his service to the fraternity.

Not every Penn student is getting out the vote tomorrow. Beyond those who can't vote because they are too young or not a U.S. citizen, some are abstaining from exercising their right to vote on election day. For some, like Tony Wang, not voting is a means of making a statement about the election process.

Engineering students interested in research now have an opportunity to look beyond the classroom. The Rachleff Scholars Program, established this fall by a gift from Penn trustee Andrew Rachleff, aims to create a "scholarly community" in the School of Engineering, said Electrical and Systems Engineering professor Jan Van der Spiegel, who is also the director of the program.

McCain McCain wants to expand domestic oil and natural gas exploration and production by lifting restrictions on drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf and building the necessary infrastructure required to transport the natural gas available there. To reduce our dependency on foreign oil, McCain wants to transform the transportation sector.

Should the City charter be amended to merge the Fairmount Park Commission and the Department of Recreation into a newly created Department of Parks and Recreation? Philadelphia currently has two separate organizations charged with overseeing the city's parks and recreation facilities.

For 60 students, encouraging their peers to vote is more than civic engagement - it's homework. Introduction to American Politics, a Political Science course, is offering four special recitations this semester, in which students are required to participate in Penn Leads the Vote activities in addition to extra coursework.

Frat party tonight? Better bring your ID. This year, fraternities are making a point of throwing significantly more registered parties than usual. Since 2006, the number of registered events during the month of September has more than doubled, according to interim director of the Alcohol and Other Drug Programs Ini

In addition to the traditional gossip, JuicyCampus' forums now include lines of free-verse poetry and portions of Wikipedia articles. One year after the official launch of JuicyCampus.com, college students are still talking about - and criticizing - the controversial anonymous gossip Web site.

College senior Kaarina Romero loves watching television, but rarely turns on a TV. Still, she hasn't missed an episode of Grey's Anatomy this season. Confused? Instead, Romero catches Grey's, Top Model, Heroes and the multitude of other shows she is "obsessed with" on the Internet or on DVR, a digital video recorder.

Tomorrow marks the early-decision deadline for high-school seniors applying to Penn, and for some applicants, the decision may come down to which campus felt 'right.' And when it comes to the people prospective students meet - like their Kite and Key tour guides - race and ethnicity may or may not be a deciding factor in what makes them feel like they belong at a certain school.

Over 120 years of Penn history will soon be available at just the click of a button. The Daily Pennsylvanian and Penn Libraries' Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image are partnering to archive and digitize every edition of the paper, which has been published since 1885.

Penn Police recently arrested a man in connection with several burglaries in the area but is continuing to investigate other similar incidents on and near campus. Burglaries in the Penn patrol zone were up 94 percent for 2008 through the end of September.