If you left early, you may have thought the women's lacrosse team's season was in trouble. If you arrived late, you would have seen just how dominant the Quakers can be. After a slow start, No. 20 Penn (1-0) exploded in the second half, ending the game on a 7-0 run to dominate Drexel (0-1), 12-4.

Penn's endowment is close to reaching $6 billion, officials announced Friday as the University's Board of Trustees wrapped up its winter meetings. The University's endowment as of Dec. 31 was $5.923 billion, up $610 million since June 2006. And financial updates were just one item on the agenda as trustees gathered to hear updates from top University officials and trustee committee chairmen at the board's full meeting on Friday.

While it may be more convenient to volunteer close to campus, students are needed throughout the city. As an Alpha Phi Omega brother, I'm required to do at least 20 hours of community service a semester. It's relatively easy to accomplish, considering the opportunities we have around our campus - soup kitchens at Penn churches, Pennevelopes, work-study tutoring jobs in West Philadelphia, the list goes on.

It seems like the perfect life. In the movie Catch Me If You Can, Frank Abagnale, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, glides into Miami International Airport in a perfectly-pressed pilot's uniform with four girls on each arm and a wide grin on his face. After running away from home at the age of 16, Abagnale poses as a pilot, a doctor and a lawyer.

Better late than never. The Penn gymnastics team brought down the house yesterday, seizing the Ivy Classic Championships with a score of 191.550, the first time this season the team has broken the 190 mark. Cornell took second (190.600), followed by Yale (190.

Why can two men hold guns but not hands? This was the question of the day at the Law School last Friday, when colorful posters bearing that phrase and others plastered the building's walls.

February is almost over, and officials still have not made a decision on a replacement for Webmail. Vice Dean of Administration and Finance Ramin Sedehi said the school remains locked in negotiations, despite the most-recently set deadline having passed at the end of January.

Although it has already had its most impressive season in a very long time, the Penn men's squash team still has to pass one more test before this year can truly be called a success. This weekend, the Quakers (8-3, 4-2 Ivy) will be playing in the Team Championships in New Haven, Conn.

Heading into the second weekend of a two-part competition such as the Ivy League Round Robin in fencing, all you want is a shot at the championship. Both the Penn men's and women's teams have this opportunity. Problem is, their competition, Columbia (20-1, 5-0 Ivy), does too.

One of these things is not like the other: Martin Sheen, Henry Kissinger, Bob Costas, Peyton Manning. The Connaissance Committee of the Social Planning and Events Committee announced yesterday that Super Bowl MVP Peyton Manning will be coming to speak at Penn next month.

To say the odds were against Dartmouth in its last meeting with Penn might be the understatement of the season. With Leon Pattman out of commission due to illness, the Big Green were forced to face a top-ranked league opponent without their leading scorer in front of the relentless crowd at the Palestra.

The Board of Trustees, the top governing body that gives final approval to Penn's executive hiring and financial decisions, met yesterday to address pressing issues facing the University.

Daniel Schwartz is a College freshman from Decatur, Ga. His e-mail address is schwarm@sas.upenn.edu.

Microsoft says that its newest operating system, Windows Vista, is visually appealing and easy to use. Easy to use, that is, unless you're a Penn student. Information Systems and Computing officials are cautioning students and faculty not to upgrade to Vista, warning that users with the upgrade will not be able to access AirPennNet, the University's residential wireless network.

Caveat emptor, prospective students, when it comes to looking at the latest college guidebooks and rankings.

Criminology isn't 'CSI' To the Editor: Your headline on the proposed major in Criminology ("Miles Davis, fingerprinting await," DP, 2/21/07) said that Penn is likely to teach fingerprinting. Nothing could be further from the truth. Your report misquotes me as saying "Criminology is not just forensic science.

On paper, Villanova should be overmatched. But when a team is playing its first game of the season - as is the Quakers' men's lacrosse squad - no one knows what to expect. Yes, Penn has been ranked 13th by Inside Lacrosse, and yes, it did make the NCAA tournament last year.