Coming off a gripping 5-4 comeback victory at Trinity last Saturday, the Penn women (7-1, 1-1 Ivy) will have to defend their No. 2 ranking in the faces of the third-ranked Tigers (5-1, 1-1) Saturday afternoon.

On non-conference schedule: I thought we had some solid performances. We had some games where we would have liked to have played better and closed it out with some leads and some games.

After a one-off loss against Princeton nearly three weeks ago, Penn men’s basketball (6-9, 0-1 Ivy) will dive in to Ancient Eight play for good this weekend as they travel to Yale and Brown.

Former Philadelphia mayor and 1979 Wharton graduate Michael Nutter is now the newest faculty member at Columbia University.

So far, over 49,000 pages have been digitized and archived, out of the 158,000 that will eventually make up the collection.

Members of the new City Council will be working diligently in the coming months to re-introduce bills that could affect the businesses and clientele of University city.

Israel is often misrepresented at Penn. Whether through the placement of black flags on College Green or the construction of an “apartheid wall” in front of Van Pelt Library, Israel is depicted as an abominable tyrant and the substantive facts of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are deemed insignificant.

What is there to say about Winter Storm Jonas? Not very much on our campus. To go by the vista offered by High Rise Field on Saturday morning, no student could be rebuked for thinking we’d get to February before attending class again.

Cleanup efforts in University City are still underway following an oil spill in the Schuylkill River on Monday.

BEN CLAAR is a College freshman from Scarsdale, N.Y.

Vince Lombardi once said, “Winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing.” But I have to disagree with the football legend on this one — at least in the context of Penn basketball. On Tuesday night, Penn women’s basketball lost to Villanova, 66-46, in what undoubtedly was its worst performance of an otherwise stellar season.

If the Penn football team beats Cornell at Franklin Field to win the Ivy League title and Brian Seltzer is not in the booth to provide commentary, did it really happen? Ever since 2008, the 2007 college graduate has been the voice of Penn football.

In most college sports, you see scores of amateurs competing to be a part of a select few good enough to compete professionally after graduation.

If you’re going to beat Penn women’s basketball, you’re going to need to hit the treys. And that's exactly what Villanova did. As the Wildcats rained down threes, the Quakers offered little in response as their Big 5 title hopes dissipated on Tuesday, falling 66-46 at the Pavilion. The game didn’t look like it would be ugly at the start.

The event, titled "Laws Without Morals Are Vain: Open Expression," references Penn’s motto and questions the validity of free speech inside and outside the classroom.

Despite the wintry conditions, the city of Philadelphia is not forcing the mentally-competent homeless off of the streets due to constitutional rights concerns.

Aviv Nevo specializes in using empirical data to analyze consumer behavior and currently teaches at the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University.