On a busy night of studying, Mustafa Al-ammar was chatting on instant messenger. But the College junior was not procrastinating or making plans to go to a frat party: He was chatting about an upcoming assignment with a professor. "I never go to office hours," Al-ammar said.

It took 157 words for Joe Scott to explain his goals for the rest of the season after his Tigers fell to 1-6 in the Ivy League Tuesday at the Palestra. It took only six to show just how far the Princeton program has fallen under Scott's watch. It's not about the end result.

Penn's three-game winning streak has by no means been pretty. The Quakers have not run anyone off the Palestra floor, and they have played sloppily for stretches on both ends of the floor. But three wins are three wins, and they have vaulted Penn back into sole possession of first place in the Ivy League at 6-1.

Sometimes, all it takes is a little chardonnay to get a neighborhood back on track. Part of a larger revitalization of the area, demolition is set to begin on the current over-the-counter liquor store on the 4900 block of Baltimore Ave., which will be moved down the block and will re-open in late spring.

Joanne Tong is a Wharton junior from Manila, Philippines. Her e-mail address is tong@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Many Wharton graduates go into i-banking. Others hope to make their fortune from the stock market. But one Wharton senior is looking to make money from the most basic principle of business: Wear a good suit. Alex Avendano started a custom-suit company called Henry Davidsen, and this recruiting season, he's hoping almost every Wharton undergraduate will be wearing one of his pieces.

By Jody Pollock Contributing Writer gamail@dailypennsylvanian.com In San Francisco, it broke the HIV/AIDS story. In Houston, it could have prevented the Enron scandal. And in Minot, N.D., it could have saved lives. Local news, explained Eric Klinenberg, the guest speaker at last night's 2007 Dean's Lecture at Annenberg, is the fabric that ties our nation together - but that fabric is being unraveled as major media conglomerates claim control over increasingly unregulated airwaves, sapping the country of its local flavors.

One-horse race. That's that would come to mind if someone was asked to describe the EIWA tournament over the past five years. The word "parity" would not have been in EIWA coaches' vocabularies, but it is slowly finding its way back to their tongues this year.

With Penn smothering Princeton's offense, Stephen Danley's layup to put the Quakers up by 10 seemed like it could be the final dagger to the Tigers' hopes for an upset. The Princeton squad was not ready to concede yet. Danley's basket would be the last points that Penn would score for the next eight minutes.

The doorbell was set to the tune of the Star Spangled Banner. As it rang through the whole house, the fraternity brothers stopped for a moment, grinning. "Listen to that!" Engineering sophomore Alex Numann said. "We're hearing America," College junior Matt Fiedler exclaimed.

It's wrong to accuse Harvard of picking its president based only on gender.

College is the time for students to find their voices, not to have them silenced in the name of political correctness.

Before this last week, the standings appeared as if they might result in a legitimate Ivy race for the first time in several years. But Yale played itself out of that race in Ithaca when it was struck by free-throw karma. One week after Penn beat itself in New Haven, Conn.

Now that the Penn College Republicans have a candidate to support, you can be sure they'll be throwing their weight behind him. Only they say they don't know much about him yet - a problem that Republican candidate Al Taubenberger will have to deal with in the coming months running in a city dominated primarily by Democrats.

While intermarried Jews may be losing the faith, increased tolerance in the Jewish community can reverse this trend.

It was a University of Pennsylvania woman who made the first major stride for women presidents in academia, and now another Penn woman is making the next one. Former Penn President Judith Rodin made history as the first female president of an Ivy League school, and, with the appointment of Drew Faust as Harvard's first female president last Sunday, professors, administrators and professionals are heralding her appointment as the next big step for women.

71Percent of Americans opposed to getting rid of the penny, according to a November poll of 1,000 adults. Source: The Associated Press