Can you taste the 56 different flavors in the water you drink? Last month, the Associated Press reported that traces of pharmaceuticals were found in the nation's water supply. In the article, investigators in Philadelphia were said to have found 56 different pharmaceuticals or byproducts in the city's water supply.

Despite the Penn softball team's neat work yesterday's sweep of Dartmouth, head coach Leslie King talks like it's the midseason doldrums for her women. "I feel like we got away with it, to a certain extent," she said. "We didn't play our best softball." On paper, the Quakers looked clean - no errors, eleven hits and two home runs in the 4-0 and 7-3 wins against the Big Green.

Thirty minutes prior to last Friday's runway show on campus, models, designers and directors were running around, finishing up hairstyles and checking clothes. But just past seven, once the DJ started the music and the audience - dressed up for the occasion - had been seated, the spotlight came on and the models strutted along the runway under white tents set up in Wynn Commons.

Pamela Anderson, Playboy and Maxim, look out. Diamond, a Harvard-based magazine featuring semi-clothed or naked students, may be the new erotica magazine of choice on Penn's campus next year. The magazine - which has garnered national media attention - is set to release May 12 and has already stirred up controversy among students at Harvard and Penn.

Forget Clinton, Obama and McCain. Ralph Nader says he's the only candidate who has the experience, change and straight-talk to be the next president of the United States. On Saturday at the National Constitution Center, Nader, an independent presidential candidate, spoke against corporate greed and the current "two-party dictatorship" running the government, referring to the Republican and Democratic parties.

The men's golf team traveled to Notre Dame over the weekend, but the Quakers didn't get any luck of the Irish. Everything about the one-day tournament challenged the Quakers, who carded a team score of 601. That put them in seventh out of nine schools competing.

Facing a Dartmouth team hitting over .320 on the season, the Quakers knew that keeping the ball off their opponent's sweet spot would have to be a high priority. But when you hand out 16 free passes in two contests, winning the hits column of the box score usually isn't enough.

The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania has "expressly denied" that its doctors misrepresented the identity of a lung donor to Tony Grier, the man who died after receiving a pair of cancerous lungs during a transplant at HUP two years ago. "The only basis [the] plaintiff has for this 'claim' is the hearsay testimony of the decedent's mother," HUP's lawyers wrote on Thursday in a response to a significant amendment that lawyers for Tony Grier's mother, Emma Grier, filed in December.

Will academics be the baseball players of tomorrow, testifying on Capitol Hill about their alleged performance-enhancing drug use? That's the question right now, as "brain doping" becomes the sister buzzword to "human growth hormone" and "anabolic steroid," - words popularized by the doping scandals that plague the sports world.

Time is ticking for the men's golf team and its upperclassmen. With only two tournaments left before Ivy Championships, the seniors - Michael Kornheiser and captain Dean Merrill - are almost finished their collegiate careers. They will continue their final quest for an Ivy Title at the Notre Dame Invitational in Sount Bend, Ind.

"We are not on the West Bank; we are in West Philadelphia." So said Sam Adelsberg, a College sophomore who organized a discussion that took place between the Penn Israel Coalition and Students for Justice in Palestine last night in Huntsman Hall. This marked the first time that PIC and SJP have come together to jointly sponsor an event.

To Penn students interested in foreign languages, learning a language without words is as foreign as you can get. But for the approximately 125 students who study American Sign Language each semester or those who are deaf or hard of hearing, there are not many movies that target deaf culture - until now.

From microfinance institutions in Beijing to hotel management in Guatemala, one student group is mixing business and charity to assist developing enterprises all over the world. Penn International Business Volunteers is one of Penn's few undergraduate organizations that combines economic consulting with philanthropy.

Penn's history is not for sale To the Editor: As a fourth generation Philadelphian, an alumnus and a 35-year member of the faculty of the University, I am distressed and strongly oppose the decision to rename Logan Hall. The historic building, an icon on the Penn campus, is a classic, comforting point of reference for alumni, faculty, and long-term supporters and friends of the University.

A group of students got to be lobbyists for a day as part of Penn Israel Coalition's trip to Congress to round up political support for Israel. 28 students - most of whom are members of PIC - traveled to Washington D.C. on Wednesday. They met with ten different Congressmen and 13 other congressional staffers for photo opportunities and to discuss various bills that concern Israel and are currently on the floor of the House.

Avery Lawrence is a College senior from Charlottesville, Va. His e-mail address is lawrence@dailypennsylvanian.com.

While many researchers say an AIDS vaccine is distant - and some declare the prospect unrealistic - Pathology and Laboratory Medicine professor Carl June is pioneering a new gene therapy that could convert the HIV virus in a patient's body into a less harmful form.