Ira Harkavy, the founder and head of the newly renamed Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships, has ten million new reasons to be happy. Earlier this month, CCP received a $10 million donation from its new namesakes, Edward Netter, a 1953 College alumnus, and his wife, Barbara.

Planning is in the air. With Penn's plan for the east-campus expansion, the Centennial District plan in Parkside, a score of community-based plans by neighborhood organizations across the city and PennPraxis' work along the central Delaware, planning in Philadelphia seems to be experiencing a renaissance.

If you have to lose a Joe, it's nice to have a DiMaggio waiting in the wings. With senior running back Joe Sandberg relegated to the sideline at times this season - with an injury, or simply for some in-game rest - Quakers fans have been given a glimpse of a Penn backfield without its established star.

Six thousand feet above sea level, on the flanks of the Peruvian Andes, a remote community of organic coffee farmers still follow the ancient Incan philosophy of Ayni. But this week, soft-spoken farmer Beltran Leguiacutea Masias is experiencing Ayni on a far broader scale: meeting the people who buy his coffee from Fair Trade shops across the world, in Philadelphia.

The Penn baseball team may have the Phillies' infield of the future. No, Quakers coach John Cole is not grooming Steve Gable and William Gordon to replace Chase Utley and Jimmy Rollins. But Meiklejohn Stadium received a grooming of its own this off-season, and the Phillies have shown particular interest in the new surface.

Out in the flyover, we don't get a lot of coastal news. Growing up in suburban Milwaukee, all I knew about Philadelphia until I was eight or nine was that it had been home to both the Fresh Prince and Ben Franklin. I've since become more enlightened, but it's ironic that I ended up at Penn, the Philadelphia institution that, more than any other, walks the line between these two worlds.

Penn's strategy for raising the remainder of the money for its $3.5 billion capital campaign is fairly standard, experts say. Although finance consultants vary on how much a university should raise during the quiet phase, they generally agree that Penn was ready to take the next step in the campaign.

Amira Fawcett is a Engineering junior from Houston. Her e-mail address is fawcett@dailypennsylvanian.com.

The second-degree murder charge for Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya should be dropped, the defense argued yesterday, in light of the circumstances surrounding the 2004 bludgeoning of Temple University graduate student Irina Zlotnikov. Defense attorney Eugene Maurer brought a motion asking Judge James Vaughn to forbid the jury from considering the charge because the murder must have been premeditated, which would only leave first-degree murder as an option.

Just as applicants to Penn come from all over the world, people interested in Penn admissions are everywhere, too. And so, without a real watercolor to gossip over, they turn to an online one. Since his departure from Penn, blogs and Internet forums have been sustaining interest and driving conversation about former Dean of Admissions Lee Stetson.

Finance or Fine Arts? Economics or English? Successful alumni say, "Go with what you like. Five years down the road, it's not going to matter anyway." A College Alumni Mentoring Series panel discussed the impact a liberal-arts education has on one's career yesterday.

While the Penn women's soccer team had little trouble dismantling its opponent, the Quakers' players did have one major challenge to overcome: not retaliating against UMBC's physical play. In last night's 4-0 win in Baltimore, the Retrievers' players took three yellow cards on the game.

Asian Pacific American Heritage Week organizers are implementing a work-hard, play-hard attitude toward this week's array of cultural awareness events. Monday night began with a mixed group of about 250 students at Houston Hall listening to music of hip-hop-based duet Blue Scholars and celebrating the diverse heritage of Asian Pacific Americans as part of Asian Pacific American Heritage Week.

Penn placed 12th among U.S. research institutions in the number of Fulbright Scholarships awarded by the State Department this year, according to a report released on Monday by the Institute of International Education. The report lists Penn as having earned 17 scholarships for study abroad out of a 108-person applicant pool.

Communication between Penn, other local universities and community groups on gentrification and affordable housing issues will be a key issue in the coming years, the man who will likely be the next mayor told West Philadelphia residents last night.