ITHACA, N.Y. - So this is how it ends, with a sober and shivering postgame celebration and no Ivy League trophy to hoist. But the Quakers closed out their 2008 campaign with a win to be proud of on Saturday, 23-6 over Cornell in 10-degree weather and swirling wind.

The proposed building of a casino in Center City was a point of contentious debate at Sunday's Undergraduate Assembly meeting Almost 40 representatives from several of Penn's minority and religious groups on campus came to support the Casino Development Proposal.

The next viral video on YouTube just might come from dear old Penn. The University now has multiple YouTube channels dedicated to sharing Penn-related video content on the Internet. There are about 15 individual video channels, and each is controlled by separate schools and institutions affiliated with the University.

Alicia Puglionesi is a College senior from Havertown, Pa. Her e-mail address is puglionesi@dailypennsylvanian.com.

After six years of litigation, former Neurology professor Tracy McIntosh's sentence for sexual assault is still up in the air. The Philadelphia District Attorney's office and McIntosh's attorney both filed briefs earlier this month regarding McIntosh's appeal of his three-and-a-half to seven-year prison sentence for sexually assaulting his college roommate's niece in 2002.

A little friendly competition never hurt anyone. In fact, it may even have helped the Penn women's swimming team this past weekend. In the 200-yard freestyle relay of the Quakers' tri-meet on Friday against Cornell and Princeton, coach Mike Schnur initiated a competition between the freshman class and their upperclassman teammates.

ITHACA, N.Y. - To the names Irvin, Olson and Garton, add McNally. The Penn quarterback position seems to have an injury hex on it, but Brendan McNally stepped into the role on Saturday and avoided disaster. McNally spelled the injured sophomore starter Keiffer Garton in the first quarter of Penn's 23-6 victory over Cornell and hardly missed a beat, even if he did resemble a tailback more than a signal caller.

The time has come when I've begun to think about my post-collegiate future. I'm not talking about a career. Instead, I'm wondering about what to do with all the extra knowledge we've acquired over the last four years. In my case at least, as an Urban Studies major, I'm writing a thesis because I have to.

The season's first three games have provided three fundamental takeaways: UNC without Hansbrough is still UNC, Drexel coach Bruiser Flint should have his own reality show and the Red and Blue still haven't found that one, central voice to lead their young squad.

Playing a fantasy sports game online is one thing, but creating one, attracting one million users and then selling it, is another. And that's what Wharton junior Boris Silver did when he combined his passions for sports and the Internet to create Total Sports Fan, a Facebook application that lets users feature their favorite sports and teams on their profile.

This past Friday and Saturday, The Daily Pennsylvanian held elections for its next leaders. After holding interviews and deliberations for nearly 20 hours, we chose the members of the DP's 125th Board of Editors and Managers. The new Board will officially commence on the occasion of our annual banquet, which will be held January 24, 2009.

I never much considered the way the health of my University was tied to the well-being of the financial markets. It is perhaps a naive state of mind, considering the presence of dear Wharton on our campus, but I always imagined that universities held a special position above the fray of economic cycles.

On Wednesday, the Asian Pacific Student coalition, an umbrella organization for 20 Asian-Pacific student organizations, elected Wharton junior Raymond Flores as its new chairman. Flores, who is originally from the Philippines, currently serves as the vice president of Cultural Programming for the Penn Philippine Association and is a member of the bid team to bring the East Coast Asian American Students Union Conference to Penn.

See the scene at last night's Big Man on Campus event.

There's no time to rest for Penn women's swimming. Despite a bevy of injuries, a season-opening loss to Columbia last Sunday and only a six-day break between meets, the Quakers have to gear up for a tri-meet with Princeton and Cornell this weekend. And regardless of the short amount of recovery time, practices this week have remained grueling.

How's this for a busy opening weekend? The wrestling team starts its 2008-09 campaign with dual matches against Princeton and No. 9 Michigan tomorrow at the Palestra, and then on Sunday, it hosts nine other teams in the all-day Keystone Classic. "It's going to be a grind," coach Rob Eiter said.

If the Penn football team somehow makes it out of the weekend with a share of the Ivy league title, it wouldn't be the most bizarre happening of the past few seasons. As the Quakers face Cornell on the road tomorrow, their only chance at the Ivy crown comes in the form of a four-way tie, which would be a League first.