In early September, volleyball coach Kerry Carr was planning her season, making note of tough opponents like Princeton, exhausting trips to Florida and California and the "Dig Pink" breast cancer awareness event for Penn's home match against Dartmouth on Oct.

With economic turmoil in the headlines, panelists at the Fiscal Wake-Up tour in Houston Hall on Tuesday told the tale of a potential greater crisis in the near future - one in which the entire American standard of living could be at stake. Panelists included Robert Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition; Stuart Butler, vice-president of domestic and economic policy studies at the Heritage Foundation; Alice Rivlin, director of economic studies at the Brookings Institution and David Walker, president and CEO of the Peter G.

The United States could be feeling the costs of the Iraq War for years to come, according to 2001 Nobel Prize winner and Columbia economics professor Joseph Stiglitz. Stiglitz addressed those costs - which total $3 trillion - in a lecture to students at College Hall yesterday.

Students are one click away from a more interactive class experience. More and more Penn professors are using "clickers," which are small remote-control devices that allow professors to collect and display data from students. We support professors in their attempts to engage students.

After a poor showing in Friday's first half against Columbia, in which the Penn women's soccer team was outshot, 7-3, and outscored, 1-0, coach Darren Ambrose had a message for his players. "Darren talked to us at halftime and basically asked, 'Why are you so scared? You don't have anything to be afraid of.

At this weekend's National Tennis Center Invite, the Quakers got to play on Arthur Ashe Stadium and use the same locker rooms as the pros. But even with a behind-the-scenes tour of U.S. Open facilities, the women couldn't quite channel their inner Maria Sharapova.

For Graduate School of Education student Kathy Schultz, the allegations being leveled against University of Illinois at Chicago education professor Bill Ayers are "charges of McCarthysim." That's what caused her to join the more than 3,200 people - including eight others affiliated with Penn - in signing a recent national petition in support of Ayers.

By RICKY KATZ Contributing Writer dpsports@dailypennsylvanian.com Through 30 minutes last night, the Penn field hockey team hung tight with No. 16 Drexel. Then came the second half. After the break, upfield pressure prevented the Quakers from moving the ball into Dragons territory.

With its fall season nearing an end, the Penn men's tennis team descended upon New York City along with 11 other schools for the Columbia Classic. But in the 'B' singles final, only Quakers took center stage, as freshman Phil Law beat classmate and teammate Jason Lin to take the championship.

"We need to get beyond" gender stereotypes, said Penn President Amy Gutmann at the "Women Who Rule" panel last night at the Annenberg School for Communication. Five female leaders in academia formed the panel on gender consciousness and solidarity among women in present day society.

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

It's official: Brian Fitzpatrick, a 6-foot-8 forward from Northfield, Mass., committed to Penn on Tuesday, his father confirmed last night. He's the second recruit for coach Glen Miller's Class of 2013, joining guard Carson Sullivan, who committed in early October.

WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 11 - Junior Chris Wynn caught the opening kickoff, burst through what he called an "enormous hole" and in only 13 seconds, gave the Quakers a 7-0 lead. Fifty-nine minutes and 47 seconds of dominating play later, Penn left the nation's capital with a 27-7 win over Georgetown.

"Why can't I get sex more than every four months?" "The government does not believe in global warming." "Nobody listens to me." Apparently, Philadelphians had a lot to complain about last month. But that last grievance won't be true for much longer - those words are now in the chorus of a song that the city's first complaint choir will perform publicly in Center City on Nov.

Next week, Penn will rock to the music of Led Zeppelin when Bustle in Your Hedgerow performs in the Social Planning and Events Committee Jazz & Grooves' annual Fall concert. The band is scheduled to perform on Oct. 21 at the Rotunda, located at 4012 Walnut St.

Try and say it: Philadelphia sells sea shells by the Jersey shore. It doesn't carry quite the same ring, but if the tongue twister is the most consideration you've given shells recently, it's worth paying a visit to the annual Philadelphia Shell Show this weekend.

For a year now, student government leaders have been unsure of Penn's future role in Ivy Council, a consortium of student leaders from around the Ivy League. The disagreement resurfaced in a debate at last Sunday's Undergraduate Assembly meeting about whether to fund the Penn delegation's travel to the upcoming conference, which will be held tomorrow at Columbia University.