After a three-game skid, the men's lacrosse team is in need of serious redemption. It gets the chance to turn its season around when it travels to New England, taking on Harvard tomorrow and Division I newcomer Bryant Sunday afternoon. For now, the Quakers (1-3, 0-1 Ivy) are focusing on the No.

Walking 36 holes - nearly nine miles total - while carrying heavy clubs and still keeping a competitive attitude is a tough challenge, but Lisette Vitter is confident her team can handle it. "I think our team can do it, I think we're all very hard workers," the Penn women's golf captain said.

Imagine this: One day, Philadelphia has 1.5 million people in it. The next, most of the population disappears, and nearly four years later, only half has returned. The city would be desolate, its institutions destroyed, its buildings abandoned. This is reality for people in St.

When a defender appears on a scouting report, you know she means business. Cornell senior Deirdre Lafferty is that defender. So she is a threat that the No. 3 Penn women's lacrosse team will be aware of in tomorrow's matchup against the No. 14 Big Red at 1 p.

New coffee shop Lovers and Madmen seeks to mirror its philosophy in its name: to provide a venue that caters to passionate people. Manager Megan Powers said she chose the coffee shop's name to "convey the same passion and intensity" from the scene in Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream.

A fire in the Chestnut Hall apartment building, located at 3900 Chestnut St., caused an evacuation early this morning. The fire was reported at about 5:10 a.m., according to Division of Public Safety spokeswoman Stef Cella. Penn and Philadelphia Police officers and the Philadelphia Fire Department arrived on the scene shortly afterward, and the Fire Department extinguished the fire.

Amira Fawcett is an Engineering senior from Houston. Her e-mail address is fawcett@dailypennsylvanian.com.

To aid students struggling to pay tuition costs as a result of recent economic downfalls, Penn's Board of Trustees passed a resolution last month stating that Penn will share risk with a U.S. bank that has yet to be named in order to to secure loans for international students.

President Barack Obama's administration has set high expectations with its promises of health care reforms. Currently, the administration has not laid out a specific health care plan, but Obama set a number of related goals during his campaign. The most prominent of these is expanding coverage to include the over 47 million uninsured Americans.

College sophomore Gareth Glaser spent his spring break in the coastal Mexican city of Playa del Carmen, enjoying the breathtaking views of the sea, the sand - and the soldiers carrying submachine guns. Despite a travel alert from the U.S. Department of State last month warning Americans about the dangers of visiting the violence-ridden nation, many students still went to Mexico for spring break.

The late-night grocery-item delivery service, The Lazy Grocer, is hoping that you're simply too tired, overworked and, well, lazy to want to run to Fresh Grocer or WaWa to nab that bag of chips and salsa at 2 a.m. Launched in early November by two current Wharton students, senior Raj Parikh and junior Akash Shah, The Lazy Grocer offers food, drink and "essential" items for sale in its roughly 23 categories.

After a slow start in its game against No. 17 Penn State - the Nittany Lions scored three early goals - the women's lacrosse team needed a boost. That's when Becca Edwards took things into her hands. With 12 and a half minutes left in the first half, the senior turned the game around.

Earlier this week, former state Sen. Vincent Fumo was convicted of 137 counts of fraud, obstruction of justice, tax violations and conspiracy. Most of the charges related to the misuse of state funds and money from a nonprofit run by a former employee of Fumo's for Fumo's personal use.

The recent death of Leonore Annenberg was a blow to the Penn community. While the University is not lacking in sugar daddies, Leonore and her husband Walter were different from other major donors - they gave to further a highly specific mission with a sense of purpose.

Even in these tight economic times, graduate and post-graduate students looking to find a job in education should not lose hope. Last night, School of Arts and Sciences dean Rebecca Bushnell and School of Medicine Executive Vice Dean and Chief Scientific Officer Glen Gaulton spoke to a crowd of about 50 young adults looking for advice on how to hack into the tightest job market the country has seen in decades.

When the West Philadelphia Alliance for Children gathered in the Civic House living room Tuesday night to teach other students how to "step" - a dance form using hands and feet to create intricate beats and rhythms - it was clear a celebration had begun. The event was just a taste of Civic House Week, a series of activities commemorating the 10th anniversary of Civic House on Penn's campus this week.

The families of Penn students seem to be financially stable relative to this year's unpredictable economy. Midyear undergraduate requests for additional financial aid increased to about 90 cases this academic year compared to 60 last year, but that difference is not the "sharp rise" the University had been expecting, according to Student Financial Aid director Bill Schilling.