Residents of a new building just off-campus waited weeks to get in - and now some say the rooms still aren't ready for them. Certain floors in the retail and residential building at 40th and Chestnut Streets were scheduled to open for residents two months ago, but construction was delayed due to shipping problems with materials.

Yesterday, we commended the University for setting up an office - in Washington - to lobby the federal government for funds. However, we missed one additional part of the story: Penn is also setting up an office in Harrisburg, the state capital, to lobby the commonwealth for funding and attention to higher-education issues.

Two students charged with aggravated assault against another student will soon face hearings in Philadelphia's lower courts.

If you want to save money, you're going to have to give up your personal information to companies, according to one Penn professor. Joseph Turow, a Communication professor and author of Niche Envy: Marketing Discrimination in the Digital Age, spoke to an audience of about 20 at the Penn Bookstore on Wednesday.

E-mails that clutter your inbox from the dozens of listservs you're on may be a thing of the past. Clubs may soon be able to send you their announcements straight to your cell phone. The Undergraduate Assembly unveiled a plan earlier this month to introduce a service called Mobile Campus to Penn by the end of next semester.

Comparative literature students may find themselves in familiar territory if they take the LSAT in June. Effective June 2007, the LSAT - an exam students take prior to applying to law school - will add a comparative reading section as one of the four sets of reading comprehension on the test.

Dave Anderson is a College senior from Denver. His e-mail address is anderson@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Over the weekend, the Penn volleyball team got a reality check at the hands of Yale and Brown and limped home with two disappointing road losses. Eager to prove themselves in the strong Ivy League, the young Quakers lost 3-0 to the Elis and 3-2 to the Bears.

By utilizing professional writing and editing services, students are just furthering their need to develop basic writing skills.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Junior Keith Vereb played an hour and a half of soccer on Saturday, but he really only needed three minutes. They came at the opening of Penn's must-win match at Yale, when the Quakers came out firing and earned a free kick from upwards of 30 yards out.

Hundreds of Penn basketball fans gather at World Cafe Live last night after word went out around 9:15 p.m. that the venue would be hosting this year's Line. The tradition will culminate next Saturday with a collective trip to the Penn-Princeton football game.

The big play eluded the Quakers in the second half; and so did the win. "There were plays to be made, [plays] that were there," Walker said.

Last weekend, the Penn women's rowing team proved it could compete against the best in the world. The Quakers placed 10th out of 57 teams at the collegiate eight event at the Head of the Charles in Boston, Mass., the largest head race in the world. The team also finished 17th out of 45 in the championship eights competition.

There's a call in every election to extract the money from politics. Soft money contributions have been curbed, but it's hard to stop a billionaire from donating his personal fortune to a cause.

Junior Jason Pinsky fought hard in his semifinal tennis match. Behind the supportive crowd that shouted "Go Pinsky!" after almost every point, he came up with numerous scrappy shots. In the end, however, the home crowd left disappointed as a strong start to the third set by Virginia Tech's Arvid Puranen proved to be too much for Pinsky, Penn's top-seeded player, to overcome.

Philadelphia's three Tower Records stores will soon shut down due to lack of revenue, but students say they won't notice the absence of the once-landmark stores. Tower Records stores across the country, about 100 locations listed on the chain's Web site, are closing due to bankruptcy, a probable byproduct, experts say, of increased online music sales.

If hydrogen power is the way of the future, then Iceland is ahead of its time, according to Hjalti Pall Ingolfsson. Ingolfsson, project leader of Icelandic New Energy Ltd., spoke in Houston Hall yesterday on the future of hydrogen power and said Iceland is leading the way in using renewable energy sources, such as hydrogen and geothermal power, due to governmental support and natural resources.