Seniors will be making some tough decisions this month that will affect the rest of their lives. For example: What color tie to wear? Which stockings best match my skin tone? And does a navy or black suit does a better job of saying "hire me!"

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

A lecture yesterday dispelled misconceptions about Mormonism, focusing on homosexuality and homosexual urges within the Mormon community. The lecture, "Understanding Mormon Sexuality," was led by Anthropology professor Melvyn Hammarberg at the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

When it comes to getting a good teaching assistant at Penn, it's a crap-shoot. Some TAs will use creative ways to help a student solve a math problem or become a better writer, while others can't even speak basic English. This astonishing variety reflects the lack of uniformity in TA preparation at Penn.

Drexel University has been selected to host the next Democratic primary debate Oct. 30. The nationally televised event, fourth in a series of six debates sponsored by the Democratic National Committee, is expected to include all eight presidential candidates from the party, including frontrunners Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards.

How do you win a war? A new course taught by Michael Horowitz uses theories of war fighting and highlights factors that contribute to victory or defeat in an attempt to answer that question. Horowitz, who specializes in political theory, is one of three new hires in the Political Science department.

The Peace Corps holds a three-day "staging event" for new volunteers before they leave the country to give them an overview of Peace Corps' practices and what to expect once they arrive at their destination.

Despite dominating time of possession and outshooting Cornell 11-1 on Friday, the Penn women's soccer team had trouble finding the back of the net in its first Ivy League matchup of the season. The Quakers rely on precision passes to set up scoring opportunities, but their timing has been slightly off at times during the season.

Former Dean of Admissions Lee Stetson attended an annual admissions conference in Texas last weekend as questions swirled in the admissions community about his sudden departure.

A self-interested liar unmoved by his girlfriend's death and inconsistent in his testimony is the portrait defense lawyers attempted to paint yesterday of Robert Bondar, the ex-lover of accused murderer Irina Malinovskaya. Bondar's then-girlfriend Irina Zlotnikov was allegedly bludgeoned to death by Malinovskaya in his Delaware apartment in Dec.

There's something quintessentially awful about studying at Penn. It goes beyond the fact that you're actually expected to do well in an Ivy League school, and it also goes beyond the fact that the amount of work can, at times, be inordinate. Instead, it's about the cutthroat intensity students adopt to be "competitive," an intensity that is beginning to pollute our social environment.

The slowest person on the Philadelphia Eagles practice field has remained with the team for almost four decades. And the most devout and literary sports fans from the City of Brotherly Love wouldn't want it any other way. Ray Didinger has been covering the city's pro-sports teams since he was 23 years old, and has become the media equivalent of versatile ex-NFLer Kordell Stewart: sportswriter, radio personality, TV commentator and NFL Films producer rolled into one.

After beating 11 candidates with 239 votes, Wharton freshman Keith Williams landed the one of the most coveted roles among his freshman peers: class president. The new leader, whose term begins immediately, sat down with The Daily Pennsylvanian to share his to-do list for the year to come, a bit about his past and why he already thinks he can read your mind.

To those who weren't in Hanover, N.H., on Saturday, it's hard to fathom how Penn managed to score only 13 points, much less lose to Dartmouth. The Quakers had no turnovers, 406 yards of total offense, and on average, they started their drives from their own 44-yard line - tremendous field position, to say the least.

According to Fred Fransen, philanthropists need to be a little more selfish. Sometimes characterized as having a lot of money to throw around and little clue how to best use it, alumni and other university donors are being courted by Fransen's new Center for Excellence in Higher Education.

Thanks to SEPTA's latest fare hike, College sophomore Benjamin Brooke will have to shell out an extra $2.40 per month to get into and out of Center City. Starting today, the price of SEPTA tokens and paper transfers will each increase 15 cents, to $1.45 and 75 cents, respectively.

The saying goes, "If a tree falls down in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" A timelier question would be, "If an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 rally in Jena, Louisiana, in protest of a case of unequal justice ignored by the mainstream media, does it matter?" I'm no philosophy major, but the answer is a resounding yes.