All whites are racist. At least that's the message that a recently discontinued University of Delaware residential-hall program had disseminated to over 7,000 of its students. As part of a "diversity training" program that students participated in during orientation, freshmen attended training sessions, floor meetings and one-on-one meetings with their Resident Assistants.

In the season opener for both the women's and men's swimming teams on Saturday, the freshman women stole the show. The combination of youth and experience proved successful, as the Penn women defeated Lehigh 227-66 and Rider 195-104, while the men beat Lehigh 182-111 and Rider 166-133.

There's a "celebrity whore." A would-be "gangsta." A father. Pinocchio . And they're all part of the University. The Pan-Asian American Community House has embarked on a campaign to give Penn community members the chance to express themselves anonymously, with blank postcards as canvas.

It's not every day a rising basketball phenom hands back a full scholarship to one of the top college teams in the nation. For Tamir Goodman, the decision came without hesitation. At a Jewish Shabbat dinner held on campus last Friday, Goodman spoke to students of the inseparable roles basketball and religion have played in his life.

Penn students walk past the Richards Laboratories every day on Hamilton Walk. Few realize, however, that the building between the Quad and the biopond is a potential national historic landmark. Historical preservation organization Save Our Sites sponsored a tour of the building complex yesterday.

BOSTON, Nov. 10 - The game wasn't lost when Penn gave up a 20-yard touchdown pass to Corey Mazza at the end of the first half. It wasn't lost when the Crimson scored 10 points in four minutes to open the third quarter. No, the deciding play in Penn's 23-7 loss at Harvard Stadium on Saturday took place on the first snap.

Gov. Edward Rendell's love of dogs brought him to the Penn School of Veterinary Medicine Friday night to speak about his plans for improving Pennsylvania's laws governing the treatment of dogs. Rendell discussed statewide dog kennels conditions and the state's difficulty in enforcing animal-cruelty laws.

Down 37-24 to Drexel by halftime, every Penn fan's fears about the upcoming season were starting to be realized. The Quakers were not only shooting a dreadful 31 percent from the floor, but allowing Drexel to drain wide open three after wide open three, six in all, on the other end.

Loss at Yale takes V-ball out of title race The Penn volleyball team knew coming into the weekend that just one loss would eliminate it from Ivy League title contention. So down two games against Yale on Friday night, the Quakers rallied back to win the third 30-26.

University endowments are safe from government control - for now, at least. Legislation mandating a minimum 5 percent spending rate on university endowments will not appear before the Senate Finance Committee this year, and Penn officials are breathing a sigh of relief.

At 13 years of age, Conor Turley's journey seemed to have come to an end. Instead of enjoying his last year of middle school, Turley spent most of eighth grade in the hospital battling polyarteritis nodosa, a life-threatening disease that occurs when immune cells attack the arteries for unknown reasons.

Students are taking environmental-sustainability messages to the streets - literally. Through this week, leaders of the Penn Environmental Group distributed nearly 1,000 recycling bins to residences between 38th and 42nd streets between Sansom Street and Baltimore Avenue.

This weekend, the Penn volleyball team is hoping its opponents can win. Against Princeton, that is. Penn and the Tigers, the two best Ivy League teams, play at Brown and Yale this weekend. For the Quakers to stay in the race for the Ivy title, Princeton (19-3, 11-0) needs to lose at least one game.

Villanova's No. 25 preseason rank places it among the nation's elite teams, but that's not the number the rest of the Big 5 is preoccupied with. The Wildcats have targets on their back in Philadelphia because of a different figure. Villanova's 11 consecutive Big 5 wins is the City Series' longest streak since it began 52 years ago.

Former Wharton Dean Patrick Harker didn't take long to start making waves again in the higher-education world. Just months after leaving Penn to assume the presidency at the University of Delaware, Harker and the school have made headlines after his suspension of the Residence Life Escalation Program, a residential program that encouraged students to address diversity issues.

Back in 1964, a man named Edward Anthony's life changed forever. He was in jail at the time for dealing marijuana; only a 23-month sentence. While behind bars, Anthony enrolled in a clinical trial for a Penn dermatologist named Albert Kligman, a giant in his field who made millions developing the popular acne drug Retin-A.

The Quakers lost the bulk of their scoring, rebounding and assists when Ibrahim Jaaber, Mark Zoller and Stephen Danley graduated. But the same cannot be said about the majority of the Ivy League. "I think there is a lot of parity in the league," Penn coach Glen Miller said.