Actor Woody Allen once quipped, "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying." His wish might just come true. Aubrey de Grey of Cambridge University, author of Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging and Ending Aging, spoke yesterday in Levine Hall about the possibility of indefinitely preventing aging.

Alicia Puglionesi is a College junior from Havertown, Pa. Her e-mail address is puglionesi@dailypennsylvanian.com.

The Lady Monarchs technically hail from Norfolk, Va., where their school is based. But when the Old Dominion tennis team heads to the Lott Courts today, the match will have a far more international flavor. Old Dominion's roster more closely resembles a United Nations roll call than a list of varsity athletes.

Several members of the Penn faculty and staff recently received a threatening e-mail, which claimed that the recipient was marked for death by an alleged hit man, whose contract could only be terminated if the recipient paid a certain amount of money. The e-mail was brought to the attention of the Division of Public Safety, which then discovered that the message was part of a national e-mail scam currently being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Philadelphia earned the nickname Killadelphia in the national media last year as 392 murders took place in the city. Now, new Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey is trying to change both the number and the nickname. Ramsey recently announced his aims to reduce the number of homicides in the city by 100 in the next year.

PRINCETON, N.J. - Princeton students couldn't claim to be uninformed yesterday. Volunteers for PVotes, a non-partisan, get-out-the-vote organization at the university, walked dorm-to-dorm to let students know where and how to vote in the day's New Jersey primary.

The Penn men's basketball team went 4-for-15 from three over the weekend. Instead of being disappointed with that first number, the squad is content with the second one. The nation's 334th-best three-point shooting team was attempting 17.3 per game coming into the weekend but managed to get different kinds of looks in wins over Harvard and Dartmouth.

Last week, Katie Derickson got sick. Really sick. The kind of sick when your throat hurts and your fever is soaring and all you want to do is feel better. It was only Derickson's third day at her new job at Penn's School of Social Policy and Practice, but she knew she had to see a doctor.

The Class of 1923 Arena is aging along with Penn Hockey's most beloved fan. With 2,900 seats, Pennsylvania's largest collegiate hockey facility is far from crowded, averaging 20 spectators for Penn hockey games. But every time Penn takes the ice, standing by himself in front of Seat 23 is a capped man with glasses.

The first time I got a paper back from a professor here at Penn, I was a little confused. Other than a few perfunctory, illegible comments found scribbled in the margins, insightful, constructive criticism was nowhere in sight. I thought (incorrectly, I suppose) that I would receive extensive feedback on each assignment.

After last week's cakewalk, tonight's match could be a rude awakening for the men's squash team. Eight days ago, Penn routed Franklin and Marshall 9-0 in a match that senior captain Ryan Rayfield said "went pretty much as expected." Tonight promises to be different as the Quakers host the far more formidable Princeton Tigers, whom coach Craig Thorpe-Clark has never beaten in his nine years at Penn.

Prosecutors are expected to decide later this month whether to try Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya a fourth time for first-degree murder. "Presently, we are waiting for motions to be filed by the defense," Delaware prosecutor Paul Wallace said. Wallace declined to specify the exact nature of these motions but did say some had already been filed and attorneys for Malinovskaya - who is accused of having killed her ex-boyfriend's then-girlfriend in December 2004 - had until today to file the rest.

A year removed from a one-loss run to the Ivy crown, the Harvard women's basketball team came within seconds of suffering its second conference defeat in its first three games. The worst part? Penn - losers of 10 straight at the time - was the team that nearly knocked the Crimson (10-8, 3-1 Ivy) past last year's loss total, leading virtually wire-to-wire before junior Emily Tay's game-winning hoop with 14 seconds to play.

Yesterday may have been Super Tuesday across the country, but here in Pennsylvania, it wasn't much different than any other day of the week. That's because this state will not hold its primary until mid-April, and by that time, some experts say, both the Democrats and Republicans may already have clear choices for their nominations.

When Scott Reich first stepped onto Penn's campus seven years ago, he had little idea what journey lay ahead. Now, fourteen semesters later, this History and Communications double-major is president of the Penn Law class of 2008. The job entails handling various fundraising initiatives, planning a prom for the Law School and ensuring that the class of 250 students keeps in touch.

Last week, Judith Hodara, the Senior Associate Director of MBA Admissions at Wharton, and her outside consulting stints raised a few eyebrows - within the Penn administration and the wider admissions community. Last Wednesday, Inside Higher Ed published an article that linked Hodara - along with two other senior admissions officials from Columbia University and the University of North Carolina - to the advisory board of AGOS Japan, a Tokyo-based consulting company that helps locals get into top United States MBA programs.

Saint Joseph's coach Phil Martelli said he was "shocked" that the better team, the New England Patriots, did not win the Super Bowl. He was less shocked that his Hawks beat Villanova easily last night, although the Wildcats' 14-game winning streak in the Big 5 had caused more fickle minds to wonder.