Trinity College's squash team may have a nine-year-long winning streak on the court, but it's had to fight a harder battle off of it.

Wooing Penn women involves a delicate balance of obnoxiousness, sarcasm and complete disrespect.

As the week-old investigation of alleged racial profiling continues within the Division of Public Safety, minority coalition leaders, DPS officials and representatives from the Office of the Provost sat down yesterday afternoon to touch base and brainstorm ways to improve DPS-student relations.

Joanne Tong is a Wharton junior from Manila, Philippines. Her e-mail address is tong@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Both the Graduate Student Associations Council and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly voted almost unanimously at their body meetings this week to amend their constitutions to approve a new graduate student government structure.

After a month of bumps and bruises, Bob Brady's mayoral candidacy is somehow still on the right track. At least that's the word from Senior Judge Patrick Toole, who declared Tuesday that Brady will be allowed to continue his mayoral bid despite alleged omissions on his financial-disclosure forms.

Theft Mar. 22 - A female staff member, 55, reported that someone removed SEPTA tokens and cash from her unsecured desk in Penn Connect, located at 300 S. 33rd St., at about 10 a.m. Mar. 21 - An AlliedBarton security guard reported that an unsecured bicycle was removed from the 3600 block of Chestnut Street at about 2:40 a.

A Hey Day compromise can still involve food, as long as it's not dangerous and done in fun, not malice.

The two sure signs of spring have arrived on campus. Not red robins and baseball, but that horse-farm smell on Locust Walk and students participating in the annual game of real-or-fake known as "Name That Tan." And it's always been my opinion that while football and basketball seasons get all the glory, there's no better time for a sports enthusiast than April.

2Percent of eggs from "cage free" farms that Burger King plans to use in its restaurants. Source: The New York Times

With so many unhappy, ticket-less students, SPEC should get creative.

Penn has done a good job making sure employees have homes in the area; these programs should be expanded to the community at large.

Peyton Manning is used to performing in front of a hostile crowd, so last night in Irvine Auditorium the Super Bowl MVP felt out of his element when he received a standing ovation before saying a word.

The Penn softball team had dug itself into a little hole during the second game of its 7-2 and 8-6 doubleheader losses to Lehigh. Unable to chip away at a 5-1 third-inning deficit in the second game, the Quakers (12-8) badly needed an offensive spark. The bases were loaded as senior Kaelin Ainley stepped to the plate after a Teresa Leyden single up the middle, an error by Lehigh pitcher Tiffany Curtis left Stephanie Reichert safe on first and Julia Cheney walked.

Jarron Smith just needed a little tweak. The junior starts about every other game, but with a three-for-four day in Penn's 11-5 win over Saint Joseph's in the opening round of the Liberty Bell Classic, he has made his case for a full-time spot out in right field.

3Years engineers, geologists and archeologists expect it will take to find the Ithaca of Homer's Odyssey. Source: The Associated Press

Here's a revelation: It gets cold in Philadelphia over the winter. No, not Hanover, N.H. cold or Ithaca, N.Y. cold, but it can be pretty nippy out there. So when the weather heads south of the freezing point, athletic practices move indoors. This is where Penn's athletes get the short end, since the school lacks appropriate indoor facilities.