Philadelphia's proposed ban of foods made with trans fat will bring taste, healthy lifestyles back to the city.

Pulling up a chair at one of the long dining-room tables, Robert Engs, Princeton class of '65, sat down to enjoy a meal with some of his fellow undergrads.

There were plenty of obstacles that freshman Marcus Schroeder had to hurdle to find his way into a Princeton uniform and the starting lineup. There was the geographic divide that the Concord, Calif.

Whoa there, Princeton. Just take a deep breath. You see, the same thing seems to happen every year with us. When confronted with the sad realities about your basketball program, you throw a hissy fit. You try to say you're better than us, that Penn stinks, and that we took your lunch money when you were little kids.

Penn Medical School professor Stephen Emerson will be the next president of Haverford College, Haverford officials announced at a public ceremony last night. Emerson is slated to begin the presidency officially on July 1.

Amira Fawcett is an Engineering sophomore from Houston, Texas. Her e-mail address is fawcett@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Two weeks after being euthanized, Barbaro is still leaving hoofprints on the New Bolton Center. Though things have begun to quiet down, gifts and donations continue to flood the Center, where Barbaro received intense medical attention for eight months.

A pedestrian-friendly South Street bridge would benefit city, students.

Americans enjoy 1,049 rights based on marital status. But for gay Americans, the number drops. Outside of Massachusetts, gay unions throughout the country are not recognized as legal marriages. So yesterday, as a part of Freedom to Marry Day, Penn students, faculty and staff came together to try to end what some see as outright discrimination.

Despite an ideal location and willing campus, Penn has little luck when it comes to hosting presidential debates.

In Malawi, every boyfriend is a "sugar daddy" - in fact, regularly supplying one's "chibwenzi," or "friend/sexual partner," with money is not a form of prostitution but a normal and expected behavior in premarital Malawian sexual relationships. Michelle Poulin, a postdoctoral fellow in the Population Studies Center at Penn, spoke yesterday about dating and marriage in the midst of the AIDS epidemic in Africa in the McNeil Building.

Last night, Rodin College House residents were given specific instructions: Close the windows, shut the bedroom door, go to a lounge-less floor, and listen up. In place of the more standard fire drills, University safety officials conducted a shelter-in-place drill, in which students learned what to do in case of non-fire-related emergencies.

160FBI laptops stolen between Feb. 2002 and Sept. 2005; 10 had sensitive or classified information. Source: U.S. Justice Department

Imagine it's 9 a.m. Your alarm goes off to wrench you out of bed for that 9:30 recitation. You keep hitting the snooze button and next thing you know, it's 11 a.m. and the class is long over. But oversleeping no longer has to be your biggest fear. If the Undergraduate Assembly has its way, in a few months, you'll have a backup plan: iTunes U.

For the second time in three years, a strange sight will appear at the Palestra. One of the two best teams in Ivy League history is in its proper place at the top of the conference standings. Penn (14-8) is in first place at 5-1. But archrival Princeton (10-10), as it was two years ago, comes limping into tonight's 7 p.

A student-panel discussion on the role of international law in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, held last night in Huntsman Hall, showed that people can be controversial while still being civil. Sponsored by Penn Arab Students Society, the panel was moderated by Wharton Graduate Association President Hassan El-Houry, a second-year MBA student, and featured a diverse group of six speakers from various cultural and humanitarian groups on campus.

Last Friday against Harvard, Penn's leading scorer was held to four points in 30 minutes on 2-of-11 shooting. But coach Pat Knapp saw a bigger problem. "That's not the story of the weekend," he said when asked about Monica Naltner's season-low output. "The story of the weekend is how poorly we defended, particularly on the perimeter.