With two weekends and a Penn-Princeton game left in the Ivy League season, three teams are mathematically out of the race, and at least one but most likely two more teams will be out after tonight. That leaves three huge non-Penn games this weekend plus three games for standing purposes only.
Amy Gutmann
Maryland memories die hard
Michael Dowd is determined not to let the past repeat itself. Last year, his Quakers fell by a score of 5-2 in an early-season match against Maryland in College Park, Md. With memories of last season's defeat fresh in the minds of coaches and players alike, the women's tennis team's match this Saturday against the Terrapins (7-2) represents an opportunity for the Quakers to prove that what took place last season was an aberration.
W. Hoops: Seniors get their Palestra soiree
When the clock hits 0:00 on Saturday night, Joey Rhoads, Ashley Gray, Monica Naltner, and Lauren Pears will walk off the Palestra floor for good. The four seniors will face a daunting challenge as they play first place Harvard (10-12, 8-1 Ivy) Friday night and second place Dartmouth (13-10, 7-2 Ivy) on Saturday.
Potential move brings potential conflict
Officials familiar with the negotiations say that there are talks to move the 41st and Market streets liquor store to 43rd and Walnut streets, a location close in proximity to a K-8 school and a community mosque.
Maryland memories die hard
Michael Dowd is determined not to let the past repeat itself. Last year, his Quakers fell by a score of 5-2 in an early-season match against Maryland in College Park, Md. With memories of last season's defeat fresh in the minds of coaches and players alike, the women's tennis team's match this Saturday against the Terrapins (7-2) represents an opportunity for the Quakers to prove that what took place last season was an aberration.
W. Hoops: Seniors get their Palestra soiree
When the clock hits 0:00 on Saturday night, Joey Rhoads, Ashley Gray, Monica Naltner, and Lauren Pears will walk off the Palestra floor for good. The four seniors will face a daunting challenge as they play first place Harvard (10-12, 8-1 Ivy) Friday night and second place Dartmouth (13-10, 7-2 Ivy) on Saturday.
Adam Goodman | This is America, fight real injustice
The city's move to possibly prosecute Geno's owner Joey Vento for discrimination trivializes the meaning of the word.
Quakers ease past Crimson, 83-67
Punchless Harvard caused Penn no trouble last night as the Quakers remained on the championship track with an 83-67 win in Boston. A 21-point, 8-rebound, 6-assist night from Mark Zoller paced the Red and Blue, who started out on a 7-0 run and never trailed.
SPEC picks Colts QB for Connaissance talk
In a press release issued today, the Connaissance Committee of the Social Planning and Events Committee announced that Peyton Manning, this year's Super Bowl MVP, will be the annual spring speaker.
Michael Jordan had to wear his North Carolina shorts underneath his uniform every time he played. Wade Boggs wouldn't be caught dead in the batter's box without eating chicken before the game. And playoff beard? Try an entire season without a haircut. That's what Mark Zoller did for his past two years playing for Penn.
W. Lax Preview: Catch them if you can
Though the Penn women's lacrosse 2006 campaign yielded a 10-win season for the first time since 1982, their fourth-place finish in the league left them out of the NCAA Tournament and hungry for revenge.
Nearly twice as long, new GRE to debut in fall
Attention prospective graduate students: Start replanning your summer vacations. July 31 will be the last day to take the Graduate Record Examination - an admissions test that is required when applying to most graduate schools - before it undergoes the biggest change in its 55-year history.
Editorial | Don't ruin Hey Day
To keep Hey Day alive, the University rightfully made seniors responsible.
Arson investigation underway; officials say arrest unlikely
The investigation of the arson of the house at 210 S. 41st St. is still ongoing, and, if history is any indication, it will likely fail to reach a satisfying conclusion.
Ward to still face trial for Pa. child-porn case
Former Wharton professor Scott Ward will still face additional charges in Pennsylvania despite pleading guilty to child-pornography charges in a Virginia federal court, prosecutors said yesterday. Ward pled guilty Tuesday to producing child pornography for importation into the United States, and it was expected that the plea would result in a consolidation of that case and another child-pornography case implicating Ward in Pennsylvania.
They don't play like that in Michigan!
At a school like Penn, coming from Michigan isn't anything special. But for a women's lacrosse player, claiming the Great Lake State as home is a rarity. Junior midfielder Allison Ambrozy comes from Grosse Point, Mich. Ambrozy is one of only two players not from the Mid-Atlantic or New England, and the only member of this year's squad from west of the Appalachians.
Daily Digit
$28Total amount (in billions) donated to U.S. colleges and universities by alumni in 2006. Source: Associated Press
City officials say messy streets due to wacky weather
Last week, Leo Saavedra was all set for the grand opening of Tacos Don Memos, his Mexican food truck on 38th and Walnut streets. Then the snow came, the city failed to remove it quickly, and Saavedra's plans had to change. "They must do something about the snow," Saavedra said as his truck opened this week, still surrounded by ice.
Pro-Life, -Choice debate continues
Should there be people allowed to determine whose lives are worth living? Is it up to any person to decide when someone else should die? According to Wesley Smith, a noted anti-euthanasia activist and popular bioethics writer, the answer to both questions is "no.
Senior fundraising well ahead of the pack
The senior class is distinguishing itself as a serious monetary powerhouse on campus. With graduation still months away, the senior class gift drive has already broken the record for fundraising with $59,302. This class also already boasts the highest number of Benjamin Franklin Society donors - students who give $250 or more.









