Gov. Edward Rendell's love of dogs brought him to the Penn School of Veterinary Medicine Friday night to speak about his plans for improving Pennsylvania's laws governing the treatment of dogs. Rendell discussed statewide dog kennels conditions and the state's difficulty in enforcing animal-cruelty laws.

Down 37-24 to Drexel by halftime, every Penn fan's fears about the upcoming season were starting to be realized. The Quakers were not only shooting a dreadful 31 percent from the floor, but allowing Drexel to drain wide open three after wide open three, six in all, on the other end.

Loss at Yale takes V-ball out of title race The Penn volleyball team knew coming into the weekend that just one loss would eliminate it from Ivy League title contention. So down two games against Yale on Friday night, the Quakers rallied back to win the third 30-26.

University endowments are safe from government control - for now, at least. Legislation mandating a minimum 5 percent spending rate on university endowments will not appear before the Senate Finance Committee this year, and Penn officials are breathing a sigh of relief.

At 13 years of age, Conor Turley's journey seemed to have come to an end. Instead of enjoying his last year of middle school, Turley spent most of eighth grade in the hospital battling polyarteritis nodosa, a life-threatening disease that occurs when immune cells attack the arteries for unknown reasons.

Students are taking environmental-sustainability messages to the streets - literally. Through this week, leaders of the Penn Environmental Group distributed nearly 1,000 recycling bins to residences between 38th and 42nd streets between Sansom Street and Baltimore Avenue.

This weekend, the Penn volleyball team is hoping its opponents can win. Against Princeton, that is. Penn and the Tigers, the two best Ivy League teams, play at Brown and Yale this weekend. For the Quakers to stay in the race for the Ivy title, Princeton (19-3, 11-0) needs to lose at least one game.

Villanova's No. 25 preseason rank places it among the nation's elite teams, but that's not the number the rest of the Big 5 is preoccupied with. The Wildcats have targets on their back in Philadelphia because of a different figure. Villanova's 11 consecutive Big 5 wins is the City Series' longest streak since it began 52 years ago.

Former Wharton Dean Patrick Harker didn't take long to start making waves again in the higher-education world. Just months after leaving Penn to assume the presidency at the University of Delaware, Harker and the school have made headlines after his suspension of the Residence Life Escalation Program, a residential program that encouraged students to address diversity issues.

Back in 1964, a man named Edward Anthony's life changed forever. He was in jail at the time for dealing marijuana; only a 23-month sentence. While behind bars, Anthony enrolled in a clinical trial for a Penn dermatologist named Albert Kligman, a giant in his field who made millions developing the popular acne drug Retin-A.

The Quakers lost the bulk of their scoring, rebounding and assists when Ibrahim Jaaber, Mark Zoller and Stephen Danley graduated. But the same cannot be said about the majority of the Ivy League. "I think there is a lot of parity in the league," Penn coach Glen Miller said.

Last Thursday, the eight people who direct the fate of over 800 undergraduates met for the first time this year. Their decisions could involve something as simple as planning the next study-break party or Disney movie marathon, or it could mean influencing housing policy across the board.

When College '86 alumna Julie Seaman was in school, her future plans seemed uncertain, and she certainly didn't expect to be speaking to a conference room of undergraduates at a Fox Leadership event Tuesday night. During her talk, entitled "Can you have it all? Maybe not all at once: Getting in and out of the workforce," Seaman used personal examples to advise students on life after college.

WILMINGTON, Del. - The murder trial of Irina Malinovskaya ended in a hung jury yesterday, the third mistrial for the Wharton undergraduate. The jury was unable to reach a consensus regarding three of four charges levied against Malinovskaya, including counts of both first- and second-degree murder.

Drexel sophomore Evan Neisler knows big-time college hoops. The 6-foot-8 forward was born into possibly the most prolific basketball region outside the Hoosier state: Raleigh-Durham, N.C. With perennial powerhouses like Duke, UNC, and Wake Forest, it would have seemed Neisler would be drawn to career in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

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

It's rare for mighty Harvard to be left out of the conversation when it comes to Ivy League sports. But, in men's basketball, the Crimson have recently been nothing more than an afterthought in the title chases. In April, the program finally made front-page news with the hiring of Tommy Amaker.