Coach Glen Miller has yet to announce who will be on the floor at tip-off against the University of Texas at El Paso on Nov. 10. "I'm not one to label a starting team too early," Miller said. "There's still a lot of work to be done; we're still implementing the system and making progress there.

Walking around campus last weekend, it would've been difficult to not feel some Quakers pride. Countless red and blue balloons were wrapped around lampposts and hung from buildings. Crowds of alumni - young and old - wandered with smiles around College Green and down Locust Walk as they fondly recalled their warm memories at Penn.

Its location is classified. It costs millions of dollars. And its inhabitants are less than two inches long. The University's Board of Trustees granted about $1.6 million last week to expand the School of Medicine's zebrafish facilities, hundreds of tanks that house thousands of fish - at an undisclosed location.

Penn is getting a new neighbor - the country's premier space for life sciences and technology companies, University City Science Center officials hope. The Science Center is planning an expansion, and last week marked the groundbreaking of a facility at 3711 Market St.

Avery Lawrence is a College junior from Charlottesville, Va. His e-mail address is lawrence@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Penn should push back its drop cutoff, or at least move the pass/fail deadline.

Two prominent Democrats came to campus to spread their message yesterday, but a major focus of the event was why not to vote Republican.

Dear athletic director Steve Bilsky: Sixteen days from now, the men's basketball team will have its first Palestra tip-off of the 2006-07 season. Like many Penn students, that day cannot come soon enough for me. However, too many students do not know that day is coming at all.

Lepisto and Carre have over 450 yards each, while no other WR has eclipsed century mark.

Four of the most powerful women in Penn's administration have had to face the difficulties of being among the first minority women in their positions. Yesterday afternoon, those women spoke about their success in the professional world as part of the 20th annual celebration of the Women of Color organization at Penn.

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

Millions of hurried passengers depend on taxi drivers, but relatively rarely to they talk to their drivers about history, politics and justice. Last night, however, members of the Penn community had the chance to do just that with Biju Matthew and Ronald Blount at a dinner and discussion at the Greenfield Intercultural Center.

Professors will try almost anything to get you to sign up for their classes.

Nili Gold's class on Hebrew literature always appealed to a niche audience. The students - typically 12 to 15 each semester - had to have determination to enroll in a course taught entirely in Hebrew. But the class fulfilled a distributional requirement, which Gold said made it easier for them to justify taking such a specialized class.

Editor's note: In the interest of better serving the campus community, starting today we will be featuring a club sports roundup every Wednesday. If you play a club sport and would like your team to be included, have a team captain or coach send an e-mail to MLConrad@sas.

If you run into trouble on Election Day, Penn's school of government wants to know about it. The Fels Institute of Government is once again helping to sponsor the national voter hotline, which got about 208,000 calls during the 2004 presidential race. Anyone can call the hotline to leave a voicemail reporting a problem encountered while trying to vote.

The new year will bring a new version of Windows, and Penn officials promise any students with the new software continued compatibility with campus technology. Microsoft is expected to release Windows Vista, the newest Windows operating system, in January.