Two years ago, Liam Boylan-Pett anchored Columbia's 4x800 meters relay team to lead the Lions to their first Penn Relays championship since 1938. Boylan-Pett will return to the Penn Relays this season but in a different uniform. The former Relays champion is still competing, now as a graduate student at Georgetown.

College student Neil Gajare, arrested and charged with arson in connection with a fire in Rodin College House early yesterday morning, posted $5,000 bail today and is awaiting a preliminary hearing. The 22-year-old is being charged with five counts, including arson, causing catastrophe, criminal mischief, possession of an instrument of crime with intent and recklessly endangering another person.

It's time for students to tell professors how they really feel about them - and now they can do it online. The Provost's Office has shifted the entire Penn course evaluation system online, and all students will have to either complete or opt out of the evaluations by May 15 in order to receive their final grades.

According to a recent report by The Pew Charitable Trusts, Philadelphians are more optimistic than the rest of the country - even though they consume a record high of cigarettes and have dismal job prospects. At a time when only 20 percent of the U.S. population say the country is headed in the right direction, 46 percent of Philadelphians look forward to the city's future.

With a 7-0 Ivy record, the Penn women's lacrosse team has already taken the title of Ivy team of the year. But it's a little harder to predict the Player of the Year. The finalists were recently released for the Tewaaraton Trophy - awarded to the nation's best male and female lacrosse players as voted on by coaches.

The Division of Public Safety responded to 38 Spring Fling-related incidents this year, an increase of 58 percent from 24 last year. The number of hospital cases went up from 19 last year to 24 this year. The majority of the individuals hospitalized were female.

Theft Apr. 10 - A female student, 24, reported at about 4:30 p.m. that an unknown suspect removed her wallet from her unattended handbag at Van Pelt Library. Apr. 10 - Aaron Kittrel, 42, unaffiliated with the University and of 3300 Frankford Ave., was arrested at about 2:30 p.

As an architecture major, I get pangs of jealousy every time I hear that the architect du jour is building some shiny new super building on someone else's campus. Whether it's Frank Gehry at MIT, Renzo Piano at Columbia or Norman Foster at Stanford, it's tough not to be envious when Penn's last superstar designer was Lou Kahn back in the 50s.

They have had the best conference record of any sports team at Penn for the last four years. They have defeated the likes of Duke and North Carolina. And no, it's not the Penn Fencing, W. Squash or W. Lax teams. Instead, over the past four years, the Penn women's club water polo team has compiled a spotless Mid-Atlantic Conference record of 45-0.

With only six games left in the season, the Penn softball team is determined to make every one count. The Quakers (12-25-1, 7-9 Ivy) will have two chances to do so today, as they take on slumping Drexel (20-16) in a 3 p.m. doubleheader this afternoon at Drexel Field.

When Penn faces Lehigh this afternoon in a doubleheader in Bethlehem, Pa., they will be playing, to borrow the title from Michael Shaara's classic baseball novel, For Love of the Game. But not exactly for the reasons Shaara wrote. Indeed, the Quakers (13-22, 2-14 Ivy) simply don't have much else to play for with the postseason so far in the rearview mirror.

With a 7-0 Ivy record, the Penn women's lacrosse team has already taken the title of Ivy team of the year. But it's a little harder to predict the Player of the Year. The finalists were recently released for the Tewaaraton Trophy - awarded to the nation's best male and female lacrosse players as voted on by coaches.

With the future of computing trending toward synchronization across all of a users' devices, Microsoft's Live Mesh attempts to take a step in that direction. Live Mesh is a free service that aims to provide users with 5 gigabytes of space online to share and sync their files among all their Internet-enabled devices, from their desktops to their mobile phones.

Hey, did you know that Barack Obama and fam have a new super-duper-adorable dog?! He's a cute, fuzzy-wuzzy Portuguese Water Dog given to the First Family by Senator Ted Kennedy. His name is Bo and he is so cute! And did I mention that he's now usurped Suri Cruise for the media's prize of "OMG Cutest Thing Ever!!!!"? Of course you knew that Malia and Sasha finally got the promised pup, the same way you knew that the video of Susan Boyle's performance on Britain's Got Talent has received 17 gazillion hits on YouTube and the same way you knew that Lindsay Lohan and Sam Ronson are dunzo.

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This past weekend, roughly 200 prospective students attended Multicultural Scholars' Weekend, a preview weekend geared toward minority students accepted to Penn's Class of 2013. The weekend - which lasted Sunday through Tuesday - is an integral part of Penn's efforts to build a community of traditionally underrepresented students, according to director of multicultural recruitment David Toomer.

As a Jewish-American Israeli writing about an Israeli-Palestinian, author Adina Hoffman strives to build bridges between all three cultures. Hoffman visited the Kelly Writers House last night to read from and discuss her recently published book, My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century.