Two more games, two more losses. The streak now stands at 14 for the women's basketball team. Despite playing at home, Penn lost 70-61 to the Lions (7-13, 4-2 Ivy) on Friday and 80-56 to the Big Red (13-6, 5-1) on Saturday. In both games, the Quakers (3-17, 0-5 Ivy) came out sluggish, down 25-12 at one point against Columbia and 27-14 against Cornell.

Kids in college are incessantly subjected to the "you're the leaders of tomorrow" mantra. We need to soak up all the knowledge we can and learn from our parents' mistakes now, so we can finally be that generation that doesn't screw everything up. Yet some classes at Penn aim to do a little more than just teach students.

When Penn officials broke ground on Skirkanich Hall in October 2003, they claimed they were making a strong statement about the architectural vision for Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. And now, with the planning phase underway for the Singh Center for Nanotechnology - which will be built at 32nd and Walnut streets as part of the Penn Connects eastward expansion project - that vision is being realized.

This year's Philly Auto Show took place from Saturday, Feb. 2 through Sunday Feb. 10 at the Convention Center. A wide variety of cars were displayed, ranging from tuners to concept cars. Several high-end brands were represented, including Jaguar, Maserati, Lamborghini, Rolls Royce, and Aston Martin. One dollar of every ticket sold will be donated to the Auto Dealers CARing For Kids Foundation benefitting The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. One thing is for certain, car fans, young and old, will be coming back next year.

Although several months still remain before the graduating class walks down the aisle, they have been breaking all records in the Senior Class Gift Drive.

Come this fall, students will likely be able to watch Penn Transit - live from the Web. Schools around the country have implemented GPS tracking devices for their transit systems, allowing students to track the buses and shuttles in real time from any online source, including Web-enabled cell phones.

The number of reported sex assaults in the Penn patrol zone went up from 10 in 2006 to 17 in 2007, and alcohol consumption could be partly responsible for this rise.

Earlier this week, Lynn Marsden-Atlass was appointed director of the Arthur Ross Gallery, effective March 3.

For most Penn sports teams, winning the Ivy League regular season is the key to the postseason. But for the wrestling squad, an Ivy title does not directly impact the team's NCAA tournament chances. So when the No. 25 Quakers (8-4) start their Ancient Eight season this weekend with matches at Harvard tonight and at Brown tomorrow, pride, not playoff potential, will be on the line.

Avery Lawrence is a College senior from Charlottesville, Va. His e-mail address is lawrence@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Most women take birth control pills to prevent pregnancy. But Oxford researchers say the pill may prevent ovarian cancer as well.

Two years ago, Tony Grier received a pair of diseased lungs during a lung transplant at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Now, HUP must respond to questions raised in a lawsuit filed by Grier's estate. Grier, 43, had pulmonary sarcoidosis - a rare disease that in its chronic form thickens lung tissue to the point at which it can no longer transmit oxygen into the bloodstream - and believed he was exchanging his own lungs for those of a healthy 18-year-old.

For the last few months, Cornell has looked a lot less like the Big Red-faced embarrassment of the early 2000s and more like the Cincinnati Reds' "Big Red Machine" of the 1970s. Pundits picked the team to finish first in the Ivy League preseason poll, and so far, the play has matched the hype.

Khaliq Gant goes to basketball practice, works out and travels to away games with the Cornell basketball team, but you won't see him suiting up this year. And he's not upset about that. Two years ago, Gant was an up-and-coming sophomore guard, playing 14 minutes per game for the Big Red.

Senior Lee Rosen has seen a fair amount of changes in the squash team in his four years at Penn. He's gone from No. 5 to No. 1 within the team rankings. He's seen elite players come and go. But he's never seen his Quakers lose to Dartmouth. This weekend, however, Rosen is in danger of seeing his team fall to the Big Green (11-3), whom the Quakers (6-5) will travel to play on Sunday after a Saturday match at Harvard (4-1).

Three days ago, the women's squash team officially reclaimed the top spot in the College Squash Association rankings. Now, the Quakers (10-0, 5-0 Ivy) look to close out the perfect regular season that eluded them last year, as they travel north to take on Harvard and Dartmouth.

Survival of the fittest seems to be working well for Charles Darwin, who will celebrate his 199th birthday this weekend.