When you're in a rut, sloppy seconds may not look so bad - even if they are coming from the likes of Columbia and Yale. Disheartened by Navy, demoralized by UCF and destroyed by Temple, the Quakers (3-8) are headed to the Garden State tomorrow to take on NJIT, a team emerging from back-to-back thrashings by the Lions and Bulldgos a mere week ago.

The protests took place on College Green and Locust Walk.

Daniel Schwartz is a College junior from Decatur, Ga. His e-mail address is schwartz@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Ivy League Tournaments have finally arrived. After 55 years of determining championships through regular season round robins, tiebreakers and one-game playoffs, the Ivy League announced that men's and women's lacrosse will be the first sport to hold a conference tournament to determine its automatic NCAA qualifier.

The first floor of the Steinhardt Hillel building was flooded after a pipe froze and a sprinkler burst this morning, setting off the fire alarm.

The study abroad experience has become a rite of passage for college juniors across the country. But due to high travel costs, poor exchange rates and typical tourist expenses, many students fear they simply can't afford the experience. Instead of passing up an international education, however, resourceful students like College senior Ebony Thorne and 2008 Penn alumna Jennifer Leone have overcome financial burdens by turning to outside aid.

Two of the "Little Three" are coming to town, but that doesn't mean the men's squash team is hosting vertically-challenged squads. After a six-week break, the Quakers will face Amherst and Williams - who along with Wesleyan make up the "Little Three" of New England elite colleges.

These days, finding a balance between academics and economics is crucial. That balance motivated the museum's administrators to discontinue 18 research specialist positions at the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology last November, effective May 31.

Disappointment over layoffs To the Editor: As a 2000 graduate in anthropology (archaeology concentration) and former employee of the museum, I was extremely disappointed and shocked when I heard about the 18 people fired from the museum a few weeks ago.

None of the current members of the men's swimming team has ever tasted a winning record in the Ivy League. But Penn (3-3, 2-3 Ivy) has a chance to eclipse that .500 mark for the first time since the 1990-91 season with a pair of wins against Yale (2-2, 1-1) and Dartmouth (0-4, 0-3) on Saturday at Hanover, N.

Meeting the parents is always difficult - just ask Ben Stiller. While most guys don't have to conjure up stories about milking cats and most girls don't have ex-CIA agent fathers watching their every move, it's a milestone in any relationship. And it's hard enough to make a good impression on people with similar cultural expectations in the same language.

Wharton is turning a disaster into a learning experience. Following the eruption of the current economic crisis, the University approved a new course: "The Economic and Financial Crisis: Causes, Consequences and Policy Options." The course, which is pass/fail and earns students half a course credit unit, focuses on the intricacies of the economic situation.

As gatherings of social workers go, last night's at Huntsman Hall was pretty unusual.

NEWARK, N.J.-The scariest thing about the New Jersey Institute of Technology's Fleisher Center isn't who plays in it. The Highlanders' basketball team has set historical lows since entering Division I after the 2005-06 season and, naturally, don't boast a particularly impressive set of weapons.

As students straggled into the Penn Bookstore in the frigid cold yesterday, they were greeted by an unusual sight - a high-tech station full of sleek bicycles. Bike Share Philadelphia - an organization advocating for public transit via bicycle - held a demonstration station yesterday on the corner of 36th and Walnut streets to spread information about the cause and to let people try out their bicycles for free.

Men's track coach Charlie Powell has one goal for the Quakers in the winter meets at the beginning of the season: to qualify for championship meets starting with the IC4As. "This is only our third meet," Powell said. "We try to get people to qualify for championship meets, such as the Heptagonals, IC4As and eventually the NCAAs.

As Gaza burned and violence by Hamas and the Israeli Defense Force added to the mounting death toll of the current conflict in the Middle East, Penn students gathered on Locust Walk and College Green yesterday in protest, solidarity or both. They carried signs: "End the Genocide in Gaza"; "Israel We Stand with You"; "Zionism=Racism"; "Free the Palestinians from Hamas.