San Diego may have been a pleasant respite from the dreary weekend weather in Philadelphia, but men's heavyweight coach Fred Honebein hopes that his team is "pissed off" after its trip out West. The team struggled, finishing 10th overall in the San Diego Crew Classic.

The Daily Pennsylvanian recently called for the Critical Writing Program to expand the number of disciplines represented in its seminars, and to reconsider its pedagogical approach. We second the desire to have an expanded disciplinary range. We are always on the lookout for qualified faculty willing to teach writing in underrepresented disciplines.

Local groups throughout Philadelphia have been organizing cleanup efforts in the city for years, but this Saturday they received a big boost from Mayor Nutter's new initiative to clean up Philadelphia. Volunteers from all over the city, including many Penn students, spent Saturday morning picking up trash, planting trees and raking leaves as part of Nutter's Philly Spring Cleanup.

The City of Philadelphia and its surrounding counties are instating a UPennAlert-style notification system, unifying all five counties in a new text-messaging safety initiative. On Friday, county officials from all five counties and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter held a press conference launching the ReadyNotifyPA program.

Nearly two years ago, we urged the University to develop an online system for professors to post their syllabi. We're still waiting. To be fair, some departments and schools have gotten on board with the idea, offering repositories on their Web sites where professors can post past syllabi.

The men's tennis team is now once again in control of its own destiny. Thanks to decisive 6-1 and 5-2 victories over Yale and Brown, respectively - paired with Princeton losses to the same two teams - the Quakers (11-8, 2-1 Ivy) catapulted themselves back into a tie for second place with four matches remaining.

Can you taste the 56 different flavors in the water you drink? Last month, the Associated Press reported that traces of pharmaceuticals were found in the nation's water supply. In the article, investigators in Philadelphia were said to have found 56 different pharmaceuticals or byproducts in the city's water supply.

Despite the Penn softball team's neat work yesterday's sweep of Dartmouth, head coach Leslie King talks like it's the midseason doldrums for her women. "I feel like we got away with it, to a certain extent," she said. "We didn't play our best softball." On paper, the Quakers looked clean - no errors, eleven hits and two home runs in the 4-0 and 7-3 wins against the Big Green.

Thirty minutes prior to last Friday's runway show on campus, models, designers and directors were running around, finishing up hairstyles and checking clothes. But just past seven, once the DJ started the music and the audience - dressed up for the occasion - had been seated, the spotlight came on and the models strutted along the runway under white tents set up in Wynn Commons.

Pamela Anderson, Playboy and Maxim, look out. Diamond, a Harvard-based magazine featuring semi-clothed or naked students, may be the new erotica magazine of choice on Penn's campus next year. The magazine - which has garnered national media attention - is set to release May 12 and has already stirred up controversy among students at Harvard and Penn.

Forget Clinton, Obama and McCain. Ralph Nader says he's the only candidate who has the experience, change and straight-talk to be the next president of the United States. On Saturday at the National Constitution Center, Nader, an independent presidential candidate, spoke against corporate greed and the current "two-party dictatorship" running the government, referring to the Republican and Democratic parties.

The men's golf team traveled to Notre Dame over the weekend, but the Quakers didn't get any luck of the Irish. Everything about the one-day tournament challenged the Quakers, who carded a team score of 601. That put them in seventh out of nine schools competing.

Facing a Dartmouth team hitting over .320 on the season, the Quakers knew that keeping the ball off their opponent's sweet spot would have to be a high priority. But when you hand out 16 free passes in two contests, winning the hits column of the box score usually isn't enough.

The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania has "expressly denied" that its doctors misrepresented the identity of a lung donor to Tony Grier, the man who died after receiving a pair of cancerous lungs during a transplant at HUP two years ago. "The only basis [the] plaintiff has for this 'claim' is the hearsay testimony of the decedent's mother," HUP's lawyers wrote on Thursday in a response to a significant amendment that lawyers for Tony Grier's mother, Emma Grier, filed in December.

Will academics be the baseball players of tomorrow, testifying on Capitol Hill about their alleged performance-enhancing drug use? That's the question right now, as "brain doping" becomes the sister buzzword to "human growth hormone" and "anabolic steroid," - words popularized by the doping scandals that plague the sports world.

Time is ticking for the men's golf team and its upperclassmen. With only two tournaments left before Ivy Championships, the seniors - Michael Kornheiser and captain Dean Merrill - are almost finished their collegiate careers. They will continue their final quest for an Ivy Title at the Notre Dame Invitational in Sount Bend, Ind.

"We are not on the West Bank; we are in West Philadelphia." So said Sam Adelsberg, a College sophomore who organized a discussion that took place between the Penn Israel Coalition and Students for Justice in Palestine last night in Huntsman Hall. This marked the first time that PIC and SJP have come together to jointly sponsor an event.