For Wharton freshman Aneesh Jain, the Philadelphia Film Festival, which kicked off last night, is a "forced good opportunity." Jain - who is required to attend the festival for a Cinema Studies class - is just the type of viewer festival organizers say they are trying to attract.

When legendary Penn rower and coach Joe Burk passed away in January, the current men's heavyweight crew team lost a valuable role model but gained insight into the legacy he left behind. Burk's passing set the tone for a successful off-season that emphasized personal development.

Two years ago, the Penn and Harvard softball teams used a rain delay to stage an impromptu dance party. But this year's Quakers will go to Boston on Sunday with a very different mindset: Revenge for their 2007 Ivy League Championship loss. Before Penn (16-8, 3-1 Ivy) plays two against the Crimson (7-14, 0-2), it will take a seven-hour bus ride to Hanover, N.

Some of the country's fastest runners will meet tomorrow at Franklin Field for the annual Penn Invitational. Nearly two dozen schools - including strong Ivy foes Cornell and Columbia - will compete. On the women's side, Penn's four All-American runners - Jesse Carlin, Claire Kim, Stacy Kim and Shaunee Morgan - are top seeds in the events in which they will compete.

Scoring in the first minute, and going on a 4-1 run in the middle of the first half, the women's lacrosse team appeared to be running away with a victory against No. 15 Johns Hopkins last night. But the Blue Jays stormed back in the second half and scored five unanswered goals in the final 22 minutes.

Now, when you watch a video on YouTube, the clip's creator can gain insight into your identity. YouTube Insight - a free tool that allows users to view detailed statistics about the videos they upload - was released last week. Students who post videos on YouTube have reacted positively to the new feature, but they admit that releasing any more information about site visitors may violate users' privacy.

When Christina Khosravi stepped to the plate in the ninth inning - the second frame of bonus softball - she had redemption on her mind. The senior co-captain got what she wanted, lacing a single into the right-centerfield gap to plate the fifth and winning run over La Salle.

A shake-up in the admissions office and a projected lower yield rate likely contributed to Penn's slightly higher acceptance rate this year, admissions experts say. Penn's acceptance rate increased to 16.4 percent this year, up from 16 percent last year. In contrast, the other Ivies - excluding Cornell University, which has yet to release its information - have all reported record low admissions rates.

What's the difference between Mike Nifong and Lynne Abraham? One is a disgraced former prosecutor involved in the Duke Lacrosse case who was disbarred and sent to jail after an independent investigation. The other is a prosecutor whose actions must be probed by an independent investigation to determine if she, too, should be subject to significant sanctions.

With his greyish white hair cropped neatly, navy blue suit and persuasive mannerism, Michael Wilson looked and sounded like a man of power in the business world. In fact, Wilson was just that, until he left the private sector to become the 22nd Canadian Ambassador to the United States.

Tom Grandieri is nothing if not considerate. He saved his first collegiate homer for yesterday afternoon, on a day when his older brother - former Penn basketball captain Brian Grandieri - didn't have a single class to interfere with his spectator duties.

The Philosophy, Politics and Economics department is in the process of devising new courses for the major, although there will not be any significant changes in the core of the curriculum. Cristina Bicchieri, director of the PPE department, said PPE faculty are working with several participating departments to expand the number of PPE course offerings, but she added that "nothing is written in stone" and said the exact details will not be available for a few more months.

It's possible that, irrespective of my actual political beliefs, I've been subconsciously rooting for Senator Clinton these past two months. Like many Penn students, I was more than a little jealous of college campuses in states with primaries and caucuses falling on or before February 5, Super Tuesday.

Last fall, high-school senior Christine Li, of George Walton High School in Marietta, Ga., applied early action to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. When she was deferred and later rejected, she turned her attention to Penn. And after Shams Ahmed, a senior at Cherry Hill High School East in Cherry Hill, N.

Don't be surprised to find a sealed envelope with a velvet bag and a gold-plated medallion under the door - it might just be an invitation to join the Kairos Society. Founded at Penn, the Kairos Society is a worldwide invitation-only entrepreneurial society.

Atop the narrow staircase leading to College Hall's Philomathean Art Gallery lies an intimate photography exhibit documenting the spring break trips of 300 Penn students. However, instead of the predictable beaches and bars, the captured images display moments from various Penn groups' community service trips.

After hearing Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama speak to area volunteers last night, students involved in his campaign say they are, to use a popular Obama slogan, "fired up, ready to go." The event, held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, had several thousand Philadelphia volunteers for the campaign in attendance.