Unfortunately for the Quakers, Ludacris' Friday performance was much more inspiring than the men's lacrosse game on the same field the next day. After a 25-minute lightning delay, Penn (5-5, 3-3 Ivy) had its offense shut down for a second straight contest in an 8-5 loss at No.

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, who is trying to win the Democratic presidential nomination, focused on crime as she campaigned in West Philadelphia last week. At the YMCA located at 51st and Chestnut streets on Friday, Clinton announced a $4-billion-a-year anticrime initiative that she said is aimed at halving the murder rate in large cities.

Yesterday's early triumph in the resumed game saw the visiting Cornell Big Red undergo a visible transformation in the second doubleheader. All of a sudden, a team that hadn't been hitting hit. A team that hadn't been pitching pitched. And most importantly, a Cornell team that hadn't been winning grabbed a pair of convincing victories - 8-1 and 16-5 - to leave the Quakers stunned at Meiklejohn Stadium.

Last night, Penn's entire girl's varsity soccer team volunteered at the Hillel Soup Kitchen's first-ever going-away party. The soup kitchen is part of the University City Hospitality Coalition program which runs soup kitchens five nights of the week in University City.

As engineering becomes an increasingly global profession, officials at the Engineering school say their students are going abroad more than ever before - but still not as much as they would like them to. Getting more students to go overseas is a tricky issue, they argue - and one that will require changing student perceptions about the feasibility of such opportunities.

With its back against the wall, the Penn women's tennis team got the job done. The defending Ivy League champions emerged triumphant from both of its Ivy conference showdowns this weekend, beating Harvard 6-1 and Dartmouth 5-2 to stay alive in their title defense.

Jess Lupardus is glad that she won't be facing Cornell's Samantha Hare again anytime soon. In game one of yesterday's doubleheader, Lupardus allowed just three runs in eight innings. The first came off a Hare solo home run in the fourth inning, the first hit that Lupardus allowed.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton looked somber following her speech at the AFL-CIO convention last week. "We need to do something so that our party and our people can make the right decision," she said. The reporters in the room looked around eagerly and uncomfortably, wondering where this speech was leading.

In the past few weeks, my friends who were prescient enough to realize that suffering through painfully dull finance classes would one day be worth it, started to receive their signing bonuses. Payoff at last! Suddenly burdened with a few thousand dollars, many of them sought out the sagacious and venerable advice of their hairiest friend: yours truly.

After a convincing 5-2 victory in game one of Saturday's doubleheader at Meiklejohn Stadium, Penn seemed to be rolling. The Quakers had weathered the excessive rain delay, and after taking a 6-1 lead in the first three innings of game two, they looked to be on their way to an easy sweep.

For the second-straight year, the men's golf team used the Princeton Invitational as its final tuneup before the Ivy League Championship. And for the second-straight year, the host school defeated all of the participating Ancient Eight foes. "If there's such a thing in golf as home-team advantage, then Princeton had it this weekend," Penn junior Michael Blodgett said.

Photos by Carmela Aquino, Will van Eaton, Matt Cianfrani, Priscilla des Gachons, Mustafa Al-ammar, Alvin Loke

After much delay, the South Street Bridge Replacement Project finally appears poised to begin - but community members are still trying to assert their views about the project. Community members have been critical of the design put forth by the city, and last month the South Street Bridge Coalition commissioned urban planning firm Wallace Roberts & Todd L.

For the second year in a row, Penn gymnast Marissa Rosen will miss out on Spring Fling. Believe it or not, she has somewhere better to be. Tomorrow, Rosen will represent the Quakers at the NCAA Northeast Regionals at Penn State. Her qualifying score of 38.

This weekend will be a make-or-break moment for the women's tennis team. Though the Quakers (7-7, 2-1 Ivy) are officially in fourth place in the Ivy League, that's only because there's a three-way tie atop the standings. Penn sits just one game back, and this weekend it hosts Harvard (2-12, 2-0) and Dartmouth (14-1, 2-0) - two of the conference's three undefeated schools.

Rachit Shukla wanted to prove he could start a functioning company in 24 hours. So, he did it. Last week, Shukla, who graduated from Wharton in December, launched the humor T-shirt site StartupWear.com overnight, "just for fun," he said. At Penn, Shukla is not alone in joining the Internet start-up culture.

While Spring Fling might mean a break for Penn students, it means extra work for Penn Police. The Division of Public Safety plans to increase the number of officers on patrol this weekend because of the increase in guests for Fling, Capt. Gerald Leddy, special events coordinator at DPS, said.