Professors who make class attendance part of the overall grade fail to recognize that students learn in a variety of ways.

Flyering is an effective way to get the word out about events and clubs, but on Locust Walk, less is more.

If you weren't "The Luckiest" when it came to getting Ben Folds tickets and are wondering why the venue won't change, SPEC wants to explain. In an effort to address student concerns about the upcoming Spring Fling concert featuring Ben Folds and Third Eye Blind, SPEC Concerts and SPEC Exec have written an open letter to "members of the University Community" explaining why the concert is set up the way it is.

Despite a 9-1 home record and an Ivy Championship, a victory over Towson eluded the Penn gymnastics team in four tries this season. With one last chance to defeat the Tigers at this weekend's ECAC Championships, the Quakers (191.325) placed second only to Towson (193.

Forget Cincinnati. There's a new Big Red Machine in town. Cornell outshot, outsmarted and outplayed the Quakers to a 20-5 scoreline Saturday in Ithaca, N.Y. Penn (4-4, 1-2 Ivy) knew it had an uphill climb against the No. 1-ranked Big Red (7-0, 2-0). "They're going to score seven or eight goals on you no matter what," Quakers coach Brian Voelker said.

College freshman Kevin McMullin started out as just another suburban kid from halfway between Philadelphia and New York, spending his summers under the fireworks at Jersey shore. But after being given a cheap video camera, and a Mac, McMullin found inspiration from his summer experiences for his short film, The Silence Then, which will be screened at the upcoming Philadelphia Film Festival.

Daniel Schwartz is a College freshman from Decatur, Ga. His e-mail address is schwarm@sas.upenn.edu.

If the Penn softball team didn't know what the keys to its success were, it does now. The Quakers rolled into Massachusetts to start off their four-game road trip on Saturday and lost both games to Harvard, 6-3 and 9-6. Yesterday, the Quakers went up to Hanover, N.

Coming off of a stunning win at Johns Hopkins, the Penn women's lacrosse team knew that a trip to Columbia would likely be a walk in the park. Even so, the No. 14 Quakers sprinted from start to finish Saturday, netting nine first-half goals to lift them to an easy 14-6 win over the Lions (3-6, 0-3 Ivy).

Penn women's tennis gave its raucous crowd plenty to cheer about against Princeton on Saturday. The Quakers defeated the Tigers 5-2 in front of an unusually large following at Lott Courts.

If you weren't able to get Ben Folds and Third Eye Blind tickets during the initial sale, the Social Planning and Events Committee is giving you a second chance.

The 'DP' hopes the Penn community will continue using it as a outlet for debate.

Penn's overall admission rate dropped to a record-setting 15.9 percent for the Class of 2011, according to data released by admissions officials Friday.

Doug Brown has had mixed results closing games out for Penn in the ninth inning. Maybe coach John Cole has found the solution - make the senior pitch the first eight instead.

Free food, live music and . floccinaucinihilipilification? That was just one of the strange words competitors were asked to spell at the Kelly Writers House Spelldown Saturday evening. The event, held to collect children's books for donation to the South Philadelphia YMCA Early Head Start Program, attracted a few brave Penn students and many adults who were eager to show off their spelling skills.

$26 Millions in record-setting campaign funds raised by Hillary Clinton in the first 10 weeks of 2007. Source: The Washington Post

March might have gone out like a lamb for the Penn men's track and field team, but the lion was still roaring on Saturday for the women. Women's coach Gwen Harris and her team returned from the Maryland Invitational at College Park with a strong overall performance as well as exceptional individual showings.