WILMINGTON - After deliberating for more than 24 hours over the past week, jurors left court with no verdict once again yesterday in the case of Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya. Malinovskaya is charged with the Dec. 23, 2004, first-degree murder of Temple University student Irina Zlotnikov.

Penn should be preparing its students to be the future leaders of the world, and as such we must be cognizant of racial issues.

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

It was not soccer. Coach Darren Ambrose called it "survival." Fans said that it was more like watching water polo with feet. No matter how you look at it, it was one wild night for the Penn women's soccer team. Despite playing through a mini-monsoon, the drenched Quakers were all smiles after dominating Robert Morris, 6-0, last night at Rhodes Field.

Phillies fans may have wanted to miss the baseball team's most recent late-season collapse, but if you live in a college house, it is not like you had a choice. Comcast SportsNet, the premier network for all things Philadelphia sports, is currently not offered to anyone living in a college house at Penn.

This city gets far too caught up in Eagles mania, and the Phillies get left in the dust for no reason.

Keep the rink To the Editor: I appreciate the awareness of Penn's hockey programs raised by the article ("A team on ice," DP, 10/3/06) on the Class of 1923 ice rink. But the author makes some naive assumptions. Granted, the potential tear-down of the rink will not affect any of the current Penn players, or even those for the next several years, but is that any reason to ignore the problem? Those who are planning the eastward extensions of campus need to be approached now - rather than when it is too late - about changing their plans for the ice rink.

If you thought the Patriot League was too good to lose more than one game to the Ivy League this weekend, you would have been right - were it not for Tom Methvin. The Princeton defensive end stuffed Colgate quarterback Mike Saraceno just outside the end zone to deny the Raiders the two-point conversion on the game's final play on Saturday as the Ivy League continued its dominance in matchups between the two conferences this year.

Yesterday's National Coming Out Day march down Locust Walk gave students a chance to wear their pride on their sleeves - literally. Participants donned pink attire and held hands with members of the same sex as they marched down the Walk

When the birthday cake gets sliced with a sword, you know it's the Navy's special day. The U.S. Navy turns 231 on Friday, and the midshipmen in Penn's Naval ROTC gathered yesterday afternoon in Houston Hall to commemorate the occasion. The flags were presented, anthems were played and a sword was used to do the honors.

Three School of Medicine professors were honored on Tuesday when they were named to the national Institute of Medicine. The institute is part of the National Academy of Sciences, and is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that analyzes and consults on issues related to medicine and health.

The coaching carousel fueled by Fran Dunphy's departure to Temple has finally come to a stop. New Brown coach Craig Robinson filled out his coaching staff by hiring Jesse Agel and former Bears guard Douglas Stewart as assistants. Agel, a 1984 Vermont graduate, was an associate coach for the Catamounts under Tom Brennan for eight years and an assistant for 17 in total.

Penn's Engineering School has a new motto: There is no such thing as too much publicity. Especially when it arrives as rave reviews of a project initially met with skepticism. This month, architecture critics will flock to University City to review Penn's new bioengineering building, Skirkanich Hall.

It would be hard to imagine England without tea, Italy without tomato sauce or Egypt without cotton. But without human intervention, these and other domesticated crops may never have reached the cultures with which they are now associated, according to Paul Gepts.

Veronica Medina knew for many years that she was a lesbian, but was still married with three children until her mid-30s.

When the 1998 Winter Olympics were held in Nagano, Japan, they brought with them a curious sport that quickly caught on as a fad in the United States.

Determining what makes a person a Native American is harder than you might think, according to Bethany Schneider. Schneider, a professor who teaches a graduate-level Native American literature class at Penn, discussed Indian identity at a meeting of Six Directions, a student-run group focusing on Native American issues, yesterday.