With a dozen of his friends watching and the crowd "oohing" and "aahing" his every move, Hicham Laalej laced a forehand down the left side of the court. The ball whizzed just over the net and landed inches inside the white line for yet another winner. It was that kind of day for the revamped men's tennis team and its highly-touted transfer in its regular season opener against Drexel.

Super Bowl XLIII may not be the only thing Penn students are wagering big bets on this week. A new Web site, Ultrinsic.com, allows students to enter a contest where earning an A in a course wins them money. The deadline for entrance is Wednesday. A $20-per-class bet plus a $2 entrance fee allows students to enter a pool which they can win outright or split with others if they earn an A or A+ in a class.

On Saturday night, The Daily Pennsylvanian honored the accomplishments of the past year and officially inaugurated its new Board of Editors and Managers. This transition marked 125 years of striving to serve the Penn community and to act as a watchdog to the administration.

Ask recently terminated Kansas City Chiefs coach Herm Edwards about the concept of a "good loss," and he'd be quick to inform that "You play to win the game!" Bring up the Penn wrestling team's Friday loss to No. 4 Nebraska (12-2-1) with Quakers coach Rob Eiter, and you will get a very different response.

With 24 seasons of Big 5 hostilities in his memory bank, Phil Martelli knows full well what the Philadelphia fan is capable of. Which helps explain why the Saint Joseph's coach might have expected worse from an electric sellout crowd at the Palestra Saturday night.

Planners of this year's RecycleMania run are using new techniques to encourage on-campus recycling - but they're recycling ideas from last year, too. Although last week marked the beginning of RecycleMania's second run at Penn, the competition won't formally begin until Thursday, when a kickoff event at Houston Hall will feature director of the Mayor's Office of Sustainability Mark Hughes speaking about ways Penn and Philadelphia can work together to improve environmentalist efforts.

Carlos Rivera-Anaya, 2005 alumnus and chairman of the United Minorities Council in 2004, may have graduated, but he still raids the kitchen at the Greenfield Intercultural Center. Over 25 years ago, Penn students called for a place that would serve as a home away from home for students of different cultures - and, at least for Rivera-Anaya, the center serves that purpose well.

After thirteen days off, the Penn women's basketball team is looking to start their season anew. The Quakers (3-10, 0-1 Ivy) will face Seton Hall (13-6) at the Palestra tonight in their final non-conference matchup of the season. But the Quakers aren't underestimating the significance of the game on their way to the start of the Ivy season.

Two Drexel University students died in a car accident yesterday morning at 3:30 a.m. while headed south on Route 15 two miles south of Liberty, Pa., according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. No other cars were involved in the crash. The students, John Williamson Jr.

No one argues that undefeated Trinity isn't the best squash team in the nation. The question is what to take away from a loss on the inevitable long ride home. The No. 7 Quakers became the No. 1 Bantams' 191st consecutive victim Saturday afternoon in a 9-0 loss in Hartford, Conn.

What could 21st-century bibliophiles possibly glean from an obsolete 17th-century practice? Plenty, according to College senior Brooke Palmieri, coordinator of "Rebuilding the Temple: Typesetting George Herbert Several Centuries Out Of Context." The event, which will take place today at 5:30 p.

In a unique collaboration among universities, Penn and Arizona State University have entered into a three-year partnership to assist each other in commercializing the technologies developed by their researchers. According to a news release from ASU, the new relationship will allow the two universities to leverage each other's expertise in certain fields.

For captain Emily Goodwin, Saturday's squash match against No. 3 Trinity was more than just a battle of top-ranked teams - the New York native's best friend from home, Chauncey Kerr, is the captain of the Bantams. Nevertheless, the history of the two captains contributed to a heated match, literally and figuratively, at Ringe Courts.

As Penn students receive bids to join fraternities and sororities this semester, they are joining a long-time staple of the University and one of the oldest Greek societies in the country. The 160-year fixture of student life has not always played as large a role on campus as it does now, with nearly 30 percent of students involved in Greek organizations.

Laura Klick climbed out of Sheerr Pool in ecstasy after breaking the pool record in the 100-yard breaststroke. Then the freshman's bliss turned bittersweet when she realized that Navy's Mallory Dietrich had also beaten the record and taken first place. "Obviously I wanted to get the pool record," Klick said.

Before the winter break layoff, Penn found itself at the lowest point of Glen Miller's tenure. In a December posting on The Buzz, the Daily Pennsylvanian's sports blog, I questioned the Quakers' passion, direction and leadership, fearing that the program might be in serious jeopardy.

By MATTHEW BURNARD Staff Writer burnard@dailypennsylvanian.com For many, the horrors of the Holocaust serve as a permanent example of the need for societies to protect all of their members. With this is mind, the Division of Public Safety's staff has recently been attending training sessions hosted by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.