While the stands have cleared, the vendors have packed up and yet another Penn Relays has come to a close, the season for Penn women's track and field is far from over. The Quakers will host the Heptagonal Championships, the equivalent of Ivy League Championships, at Franklin Field May 9 and 10.

Considering it hadn't lost at home in the regular season since 2006, the Penn women's lacrosse team was confident coming into their home matchup against No. 13 Stanford Saturday. Despite their sole regular season loss in 2008 at Stanford, the No. 3 Quakers were looking to blow out the No.

The preliminary yield for the class of 2013 is 63 percent - the same as last year - according to Dean of Admission Eric Furda. This statistic, however, is down from 66 percent in 2007. Penn enrolled 19 more students than expected, according to an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Brian Fulton's role on the Penn men's track team is to run races that span 800 meters. Fortunately for the freshman and his teammates, they won't have to travel much farther than that to get to this weekend's spring Heptagonals. The Quakers will participate in the spring Heptagonals - the equivalent of Ivy League Championships - Saturday and Sunday at Franklin Field.

Following the fire in Rodin College House on April 22, many University administrators remain unsure about a number of details about Neil Gajare, the Penn student who is suspected of starting the fire. Gajare's arraignment, originally scheduled for April 29, was postponed until May 20.

Wearing the Red and Blue jerseys for the final time Saturday, Penn's seniors played a game they won't soon forget. The Quakers got all but two of their goals from the graduating class and held off Army in the fourth quarter for an 11-10 victory. "We were absolutely all about going out and having fun today," senior goalkeeper Greg Murray said.

The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly's 2009-2010 budget will increase by 19.2 percent, from $643,153 in fiscal year 2009 to $787,078 for FY2010. The increase was due to the administration's recognition of a disparity between the budgets of the Undergraduate Assembly and GAPSA, according to outgoing GAPSA chairman Andrew Rennekamp, a Ph.

Penn students are becoming famous for not eating - or rather, for donating their uneaten meals to the homeless. Since reading days last semester, Wharton freshman Ricky Oxenhandler, along with College freshmen Becca Elman and Jake Werlin, a Daily Pennsylvanian photographer, has been working on More Than Pennies, an initiative to donate students' uneaten meals to homeless people and shelters around Philadelphia.

Penn's graduate schools are as strong as ever, according to new rankings released by U.S. News and World Report in April. Penn made it into the top 10 on 11 different lists and remained fairly consistent with previous years in the key categories - business, engineering, medicine, law and education.

Updated May 10 5:35 p.m. Despite a win in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, the Penn women's lacrosse team is not satisfied. Despite beating Fairfield, 10-8, at Drexel's Vidas Field, the No. 4 Quakers will look to improve on their first game of the extended season.

May 9, 8:43 p.m. Legendary college, professional and Olympic coach Chuck Daly, who steered the Quakers to four Ivy League and Big 5 titles in his six seasons at the helm, died Saturday after a bout with pancreatic cancer. He was 78.

The Division of Public Safety's Walk-Back Program will return this year during Reading Days and final exams. From April 29 to May 12, a Penn Police officer will be posted at the Button on College Green and will enter Van Pelt Library every half hour from 11 p.

Updated April 30, 5:41 p.m. Three probable cases of swine influenza have now been reported in Philadelphia. Further testing in those cases -- a two-year-old child, a 46-year-old woman and a 25-year-old man -- must be done to confirm swine flu, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health.

As many students look forward to leaving Penn for a summer of relaxation, the Division of Public Safety is preparing for what is one of its busiest periods of the year. "It's a fallacy that as the vast majority of the student population leaves, out workload decreases," Captain Joseph Fischer said. "The challenges are in fact even greater over the summer.

The NCAA announced the 2009 Women's Lacrosse Tournament bracket, and Penn received the No. 4 seed. The Quakers (13-2, 7-0 Ivy) will face unseeded Fairfield (17-2) Sunday at Franklin Field in the first round. The Quakers were predicted to get the No. 3, No.

When a lizard runs across a sandy desert it may seem effortless, but crossing sand has proved to be nearly impossible for robots until the advent of SandBot. Researchers at Penn and the Georgia Institute of Technology have collaborated to study how animals can accomplish what wheeled and tracked robots have not been able to do.

As the Penn women's lacrosse team prepares to face Stanford in the final game of the regular season, Becca Edwards, for one, is eyeing revenge. "I think we really have a lot of motivation," the senior said. "[Stanford is] the only team that we lost to in the regular season last year, and personally, for me that's the game I tore my ACL in, so I think it will be a fun game for us.