Just before first-year Med student David Fajgenbaum's mother died of brain cancer in October 2004, he promised to do something in her memory. Three months later, he founded Ailing Mothers and Fathers, a support group for students "coping with the illness or death of a loved one," at Georgetown University, where he was an undergraduate at the time, Fajgenbaum said.

Coming into this season, Princeton senior Sarah Peteraf had scored only four career goals, two each in her freshman and sophomore campaigns. But this year, Peteraf has transitioned from a full-time midfielder to a hybrid midfielder-forward, and the results speak for themselves.

Out of touch with reality at Penn To the Editor: With my daughter being a junior at Penn and loving it, and while also knowing the general disposition of those attending an Ivy League school, it doesn't surprise me that 80 percent of students support a committed leftist ("Support for Obama stays high in DP poll" 11/3/08).

Penn goalkeeper Drew Healy has accomplished a lot in his time at Rhodes Field. He recorded a program-best seven consecutive shutouts, and he has nine on the year, one shy of that school mark. But he has never won an Ivy League title. On Saturday, the senior can get one step closer to achieving that when the Quakers face off against archrival Princeton.

If you have ever visited the McDonald's at 40th and Walnut streets late on a Saturday night, you may have encountered a scene of drunken chaos. But while some students complain that the store's management is "ridiculously absurd" and its customer service "a joke," members of the store's overnight staff say that students play a part in the mayhem as well.

Send your condolences to loyal magazine readers. This October, publication corporations laid some of our favorite and most famous publications to rest and significantly cut back on the shelf lives of those magazines that have managed to survive. Magazine publishers have lifted their dark veils to lay off workers, cut the number of issues put out or close shop completely.

More youth turned out to vote on Tuesday than in any other recent election, but the number still underwhelmed some experts. Only half of all eligible voters under age 30 voted Tuesday, according to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement.

With her team out of contention for the Ivy League championship, Harvard volleyball coach Jen Weiss has the group ready to play spoiler. "We want to cause havoc up there for that first place," she said. The Crimson have a perfect chance to do so with second-place Princeton and third-place Penn (10-11, 6-3 Ivy) visiting Cambridge, Mass.

The only thing standing between Brown and its first Ivy League championship since 2005 is Yale. Sure, there's a pesky road trip to Dartmouth next weekend and then a home date with Columbia on Nov. 22, but those two teams are a combined 1-7 in Ivy play (1-13 overall).

For Penn, it's a chance to stay relevant in the Ivy League title race. For Princeton, it's the first step of many to salvage a winning season. If you listen to Roger Hughes describe it, tonight's 7:04 p.m. matchup between his Tigers (3-4, 2-2 Ivy) and the Quakers (4-3, 3-1) is more like an audition.

Despite its title, "An Intimate Conversation with Mira Nair: Between Two Worlds," last night's event hardly resembled an intimate conversation. Instead, the South Asian director Mira Nair, responsible for hits such as Mississippi Masala, The Namesake and Monsoon Wedding, drew a movie premier-worthy audience to Penn's International House.

Penn graduate students will soon be seeing more financial aid and less pressure to finish their degrees in time. Yesterday the School of Arts and Sciences received a $6 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support graduate education in the humanities.

When Microsoft upgrades to its newest operating system, Penn is likely to follow suit. Microsoft recently announced the development of Windows 7, the seventh version of the Windows operating system and the successor to Windows Vista. Penn officials said they will consider testing and using the system, despite fairly recent upgrades to Vista.

CHICAGO - As one of the country's largest cities waited anxiously, people didn't have anything else to do but talk about what might happen for one of their own on election night. After covering the election for nearly a year, all I wanted to hear when I arrived in Chicago on Monday was what regular people had to say before they pulled the lever for a candidate.

You are who you associate with. We differentiate people by profession, social class, ethnicity, religion, IQ and many other standard groupings. And we use these natural divisions to continuously navigate life situations. Specifically in the recent election, there's been a concerted attempt to see shades of gray, to distinguish people from their chosen associations.

There are a couple of conventional ways to earn extra cash at Penn - serving food, working at a College House front desk, maybe getting a paid summer internship if you're lucky. But some students turn to the slightly unconventional to earn extra spending money for that dinner in Center City or night out on the town.

According to some Radian residents, the luxury complex has not quite lived up to its lofty price and reputation. Initially touted for its state-of-the-art accommodations and convenient location, complaints about the Radian have become more common, with many suggesting the building is unattractive, ill-equipped or generally overrated.