Penn announced an impressive 20.2 percent return on its endowment investments for the fiscal year that ended on June 30, officials announced yesterday at a Board of Trustees meeting.

When Villanova quarterback Marvin Burroughs graduated last spring, Wildcats fans probably thought they had seen the last of the veteran that carried the offense for three years. But the familiar face has been in the crowd at the home games so far, watching his successor, sophomore quarterback Antwon Young, who has been like a younger brother to him.

Penn's Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center held its 25-year anniversary celebration yesterday afternoon, honoring both the center's success and respected director Robert Schoenberg. About 100 students and faculty members mingled and ate hors d'oeuevres in the center's new lounge inside the Carriage House as they celebrated the efforts of one of nation's oldest and most active LGBT centers.

Playboy - naked women, Hugh Hefner and, now, social networking. Playboy U, the new Web site backed by the storied men's magazine of the same name, launched to the public last month, promising parties, fun and - surprisingly - no nudity. The site, which is only open to college students, is much like Facebook, with student profiles that include user-generated photos, videos and blogs.

Mercyhurst Preparatory School, in Erie, Pa., has set up a fund in memory of College sophomore Anne Ryan, who died on Sept. 9 from meningitis. The fund, named the Anne Ryan Mission Fund, will help pay for religious community-service trips to Baltimore, Md.

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

Fraternity. The word is derived from frater, Latin for brother. In broad terms, it means a collection of similar people joined together by a shared purpose. Most college students have a hazier definition that typically involves beer, chicks, bros and the occasional ho.

The recently restructured graduate student government is raring to get its constituents more connected to Penn. The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly has emerged from a major organizational makeover and is now eager to promote interdisciplinary cooperation among all 10 graduate schools represented by GAPSA and to spearhead new campus initiatives.

Along with at least 1,000 other scholars, Linguistics professor Mark Liberman is part of a recent trend of professors delving into a new, informal aspect of academia: the blog.

What organizers had intended to be an open discussion forum aimed at dispelling misconceptions surrounding atheism quickly turned into support for atheism itself. The Penn Inquiry & Freethought Forum, a new club aimed at discussing secular opinions and ideas, hosted "Ask a Skeptic" last night in Huntsman Hall, hoping for a balance of religious and non-religious attendees who would foster healthy debate.

A war is being waged on hypocrisy. Statesmen will fall, and political empires will crumble. But the adult entertainment industry will live on. Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler magazine, is billing himself as a crusader in the fight for public integrity. In June this year, he ran a full-page ad in the Washington Post, offering up to $1 million cash to anyone who could "provide documented evidence of illicit sexual or intimate relations with a Congressperson, Senator or other prominent official.

High-school students who hate the alphabet soup of admissions testing may instead opt to Zinch. Launched in April, Zinch is a Facebook-like Web site that allows students to show prospective schools more than their PSAT and SAT scores. Applicants can create profiles that showcase their accomplishments and extracurricular activities and upload video, images and audio clips.

6-foot-10, 230-pound power forward Andrew Van Nest is seriously considering playing basketball at Penn, according to his father, Jeffrey Van Nest. The Weston, Mass. native, whose mother graduated from the University, has scheduled an official visit to Penn during the weekend of September 29th.

It's hard to believe a man like Jim Steel, Penn football's strength and conditioning coach, would ever consider bulking up unhealthy. But after years of pumping iron for himself, Steel has traded in muscles for clipboards and is back to doing what he loves - coaching others to be bigger and stronger.

Move over, Pennster - but don't leave just yet. Penn's social network for incoming freshmen saw the lowest number of users this summer than ever before in its four-year history. Pennster managers are currently discussing the future of the site - whether to improve it or can it.

Most prized high-school basketball recruits spend the summer before senior year frantically deliberating with parents and coaches about which colleges they should consider visiting and which ones they should cross off their ever-growing lists. But by early July, 6-foot-1 point guard Zack Rosen had already narrowed his list down to one: Penn.

If you believe campus brochures, attending class at Penn is something of a transcendent experience. Wide-eyed students utilize their diverse backgrounds to spar intellectually while a charismatic professor imbues his pupils with the "practical knowledge" they need to become leaders of tomorrow.