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.

This season is wide open for someone to step up and call for the ball. The graduated Mark Zoller and Ibrahim Jaaber leave behind a combined 34 ppg hole for the Quakers' offense to fill. Steve Danley's almost nine points per contest will be missed and Penn's fifth leading scorer Tommy McMahon will sit out the season after back surgery as well.

It's looking more and more likely that the Ivy League title will be decided by the clash between Yale and Harvard in The Game next weekend. The Bulldogs and Crimson still have their flawless League records intact and face off against two bottom dwellers in Princeton and Penn, respectively, tomorrow.

The men's soccer team is in need of a break tomorrow, and there'd be no better time to get it than against No. 15 Harvard on the Crimson's home turf. It has been a tough season for the Quakers (5-8-2, 2-3 Ivy), who were shut out in their last two contests against Brown and Princeton and have lost five of their last six.

The men's basketball team doesn't have an organized hazing ritual for incoming freshmen, but 6-foot-8 power-forward Jack Eggleston had a unique initiation onto his new team. "Brennan [Votel] broke my nose on the first day of classes," Eggleston said. "I had to sit out a couple of weeks . but other than that nothing too intense.

The Philadelphia District Attorney's office called former Neurosurgery professor Tracy McIntosh's petition to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court "frivolous" and "legally irrelevant" in its reply to McIntosh's request to the court to block his resentencing. The brief, filed last week, outlines the prosecution's opposition to McIntosh's attempt to halt resentencing in connection with a 2002 sexual assault.

Most Wharton Management 100 teams plan events and sell T-shirts to raise money for their clients and causes. But for Team Shout, the goal is different: raising political awareness. Working for entrepreneur and Wharton alumnus Ryan Comfort, the team is promoting Our Voice 2008, a Web site that seeks to politically engage voters between the ages of 18 and 30.

When Yale University sophomore Jon Terenzetti heard last year that Penn students can pack food into takeout containers and take them home from dining halls, he wondered why Yale students couldn't do the same. A year later, Yale is in the midst of bringing a takeaway system to its own dining halls.