Former Marketing professor Scott Ward will plead guilty this month to child pornography charges. Ward, who is already serving a prison sentence for producing and importing child pornography, was charged in August with two counts of inducing a minor to engage in sex to create photos or videos.

The price of a college education increases every year, but luckily, so do most schools' commitments to provide financial aid. At four-year public and private colleges, average tuition prices and financial-aid packages both increased for the current academic year, according to a report published by the College Board last week.

Joseph Cho, a former Penn Law student accused of trying to kill his neighbors, will go to trial on attempted murder charges. Cho was held for court on charges of attempted murder, aggravated assault and other related offenses at a preliminary hearing in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas yesterday, according to court records.

Discussing sexually transmitted diseases can be awkward, uncomfortable and wholly unpleasant. But one Web site is trying to make it a little easier through an eCard service. Inspot.org, a Web site developed by the Internet Sexuality Information Services, Inc.

Gov. Ed Rendell was jubilant, and Republican Sen. Arlen Specter more muted, as they discussed the outcome of Tuesday's presidential election. Before an audience of about 500 civic and business leaders, Rendell and Specter - Pennsylvania's most prominent politicians - made the differences in their views clear at a breakfast hosted by Philadelphia-based political watchdog group Committee of Seventy.

According to Mickey Rapkin, "there are a lot of untold stories, a lot of gossip you don't know about, behind college a capella." Rapkin, a senior editor at GQ Magazine and author of Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate A Capella Glory," spoke to a crowd of about a dozen people at the Penn Bookstore last night.

Tuesday was a good day for Democrats, but it was an even better day for student activism. Nearly 4,000 voters showed up at on-campus voting locations, and over 90 percent of registered student voters showed up to cast their ballot. Penn Leads the Vote and student political groups deserve recognition for their impressive voter registration and turnout efforts.

Jennifer Lesser is a College junior from Minneapolis, Minn. Her e-mail address is lesser@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Political Science professor Rogers Smith noted that Tuesday's "election marks a historic juncture," at a panel yesterday in Houston Hall. And while it is still too early to analyze the triumphs and problems that will accompany this election, Smith and his colleagues tried to demystify the results.

The benefits of sports spectatorship are usually cheap pleasures - triumph, camaraderie, pride and the catharsis of revenge. Rarely are fans rewarded materially for their love of the game, though Abner's Cheesesteaks would beg to differ. But for the Quakers faithful who can't wait for the next 100-point game, the Athletic Department has introduced Red & Blue Rewards, aimed at giving fans concrete incentives to attend Penn sports events.

The Ivy League gets about as many All-American transfers as it does national championships. But this offseason, the Penn basketball team found one of the former. Sort of. Sophomore Zachary Gordon, a transfer from Yeshiva University, was a first-teamer on the Jewish Sports Review All-American team for Divisions II and III.

On her first road trip as an NCAA athlete, Madison Wojciechowski found a unique way of bonding with her new volleyball coach, Kerry Carr. Carr was sitting in her usual seat at the front of the bus when a series of familiar noises erupted nearby. No time was wasted figuring out that somebody had been passing gas, but the culprit was hard to identify.

'I'm lovin' it!" Almost everyone associates this catchphrase with McDonald's, but few Penn students would agree that it applies to the franchise's branch on 40th and Walnut streets. With customer service complaints like the ones described in The Daily Pennsylvanian last week, it's no wonder many local residents have rejoiced at the firings of several staff members.

You probably haven't heard of Megan Cassidy or Kelly McCarthy. Then again, you probably haven't heard of many players on the women's soccer team. That's because coach Darren Ambrose carries 29 players on his roster, even though only 11 can be on the field at once.

There's another solution when you forget your grandmother's birthday after the local CVS has closed its doors. Enter the Penn eCard, a new free service offered by the University as "a greener way to share the red and the blue," according to the Web site. Senders can choose from 85 different images related to Penn, as well as from additional images specifically from the Law and Veterinary Schools.

A few machine malfunctions and names missing from lists of registered voters held up the voting process at polls around campus yesterday. But most polling stations reported a smooth election day, and the long lines some had predicted didn't materialize. The Penn Care and Rehabilitation Center at 36th and Chestnut streets was the only polling place on or around Penn's campus to report significant glitches.

I received a promotional e-mail from Starbucks on Monday that proposed a question: "What if we cared as much on November 5th as we care on November 4th?" Don't let the origin of this message diminish the question's merit. Today is Nov. 5 - how much do you care about the election now? Or better yet, how much will it matter tomorrow? After such a long election season, it's easy for us to let out a sigh of relief and settle back into our politically apathetic lives.