After a disappointing stretch of eight straight losses over the past week, the Penn softball team is looking to recover. Yet the struggling Quakers (18-16, 5-7 Ivy) won't get much of a reprieve with a doubleheader today against the Wildcats. "I don't know a lot about Villanova," Penn coach Leslie King said.

Senior societies are all about big names - big-name leaders on campus and their own big names scrawled all over Locust Walk. With three of the oldest senior societies at Penn - the Sphinx Senior Society, the Friar Senior Society and the Mortar Board Senior Honor Society - admitting their new classes this past week, each claims to have snatched up the best and brightest campus leaders around.

The Penn Interfraternity Council is urging the Greek community to write letters telling their congressmen to support the Collegiate Housing and Infrastructure Act, a bill which permits tax-deductible donations to Greek chapter housing corporations. The proposal will make it easier for many chapters to increase alumni donations for these important upgrades.

Rick Heaslip clears between $500 and $1,000 an hour on a good day. Heaslip, a College junior, plays poker professionally when he's not studying Asian-American war literature or working toward his English major. Heaslip is a member of a community of Penn students who play professional or semi-professional poker in person and online.

In light of shootings at Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University by mentally unstable students, universities are trying to figure out how to prevent similar situations from happening again. One such way may be through increased scrutiny of students' pasts during the admissions process.

The Quakers may no longer be in the hunt for the men's lacrosse Ivy League title, but that doesn't mean things aren't interesting for the teams that are still in it. Three Ancient Eight squads - No. 4 Cornell (4-0), No. 14 Brown (3-0) and No. 19 Princeton (3-0) - remain undefeated and are duking it out.

The University chose Patkau Architects of Canada as the designer of Penn's newest College House to be built on Hill Square. The first residential hall to be constructed in over 30 years, Hill Square College House will be designed as a low-rise building enclosing a Quad-like square.

When Gym Class Heroes drummer Matt McGinley was in the ninth grade, he was in a band that had no singer. And then he met Travis McCoy, now the lead singer of Gym Class Heroes. Still, McGinley's band needed a singer, and McCoy took on that role. He was "into poetry," McGinley said in a post-concert interview.

Young people are energized about this year's elections unlike any in recent memory. Turnout has increased dramatically across the country, demonstrating a passion and dedication not seen among youth in a long time. This newest generation of American voters feels more connected to and affected by politics.

The Recording Industry Association of America has hit a roadblock in its efforts to prosecute four students at Boston University for copyright infringement. Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner forbade Boston University - which had been subpoenaed by the RIAA - from providing the names of students to the organization until she further investigates the school's privacy policy.

Daniel Schwartz is a College sophomore from Decatur, Ga. His e-mail address is schwartz@dailypennsylvanian.com.

The theme to Saturday's game between the Penn women's lacrosse team and Dartmouth was out with the old and in with the new. The Big Green said goodbye to their old turf this weekend, as they resurfaced Scully-Fahey Field for the home opener. They also said goodbye to a two-decade home winning streak over the Quakers, who won for the first time since 1988, 8-5.

Penn has emerged unscathed from the latest round of e-mail scams targeting college servers. The fake e-mails, known as phish, have recently changed their tactics to target colleges, according to Douglas Pearson, technical director of an information-sharing and analysis center at Indiana University at Bloomington.

Penn asked why, and the Social Planning and Events Committee answered - with fried Oreos, a cappella performances, human bowling and two days of full-out partying. Penn's annual Spring Fling weekend took place this past Friday and Saturday in the Quad and on College Green.

Coming into this weekend's matches against Harvard and Dartmouth, Penn found itself right in the thick of things, just half a game behind the first place Crimson. But its hopes for a third straight Ivy League title were likely dashed after a 7-0 loss at No.

The school from Athens brought multiple Olympians to the NCAA Gymnastics Northeast Regionals , and for one day, Penn's Marissa Rosen got to be their teammate. Rosen was paired with the No. 1-seeded Georgia team, whose Courtney Kupets and Courtney McCool were both part of the silver-medal-winning U.

Even the pouring rain couldn't dampen spirits at the Spring Fling concert Friday night. Hosted by the concerts and SPEC-TRUM subcommittees of the Social Planning and Events Committee, the concert featured rock group OK Go and indie hip-hop band Gym Class Heroes along with rapper Ludacris, who headlined the show.