Though the Penn women's lacrosse 2006 campaign yielded a 10-win season for the first time since 1982, their fourth-place finish in the league left them out of the NCAA Tournament and hungry for revenge.

Attention prospective graduate students: Start replanning your summer vacations. July 31 will be the last day to take the Graduate Record Examination - an admissions test that is required when applying to most graduate schools - before it undergoes the biggest change in its 55-year history.

To keep Hey Day alive, the University rightfully made seniors responsible.

The investigation of the arson of the house at 210 S. 41st St. is still ongoing, and, if history is any indication, it will likely fail to reach a satisfying conclusion.

Former Wharton professor Scott Ward will still face additional charges in Pennsylvania despite pleading guilty to child-pornography charges in a Virginia federal court, prosecutors said yesterday. Ward pled guilty Tuesday to producing child pornography for importation into the United States, and it was expected that the plea would result in a consolidation of that case and another child-pornography case implicating Ward in Pennsylvania.

At a school like Penn, coming from Michigan isn't anything special. But for a women's lacrosse player, claiming the Great Lake State as home is a rarity. Junior midfielder Allison Ambrozy comes from Grosse Point, Mich. Ambrozy is one of only two players not from the Mid-Atlantic or New England, and the only member of this year's squad from west of the Appalachians.

$28Total amount (in billions) donated to U.S. colleges and universities by alumni in 2006. Source: Associated Press

Last week, Leo Saavedra was all set for the grand opening of Tacos Don Memos, his Mexican food truck on 38th and Walnut streets. Then the snow came, the city failed to remove it quickly, and Saavedra's plans had to change. "They must do something about the snow," Saavedra said as his truck opened this week, still surrounded by ice.

Should there be people allowed to determine whose lives are worth living? Is it up to any person to decide when someone else should die? According to Wesley Smith, a noted anti-euthanasia activist and popular bioethics writer, the answer to both questions is "no.

The senior class is distinguishing itself as a serious monetary powerhouse on campus. With graduation still months away, the senior class gift drive has already broken the record for fundraising with $59,302. This class also already boasts the highest number of Benjamin Franklin Society donors - students who give $250 or more.

Campus development and sustainability are high on the agenda as the University's top governing body convenes today for its annual winter meeting. The University Board of Trustees, which consists of about 55 prominent alumni and professionals who have the final say in major hiring and budget decisions at the University, meets three times each year to discuss major issues and projects at Penn.

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

As temperatures rise and snow melts into puddles, University officials can breathe a sigh of relief. Last week's snowfall created a mess on campus that is now starting to fade away. It also caused several universities in the Northeast to close for the day - but Penn students and staff trudged along Locust Walk throughout the season's biggest storm thus far.

If you think having a men's hockey team in addition to men's basketball would get you a full dose of both sports, you might be surprised. At Dartmouth, which has both, fans don't get to see the best of both worlds. The Quakers will head up to Hanover, N.

Let's talk about the mid-range jumper. The what? The mid-range jumper. Never heard of it. No? Well, do I have news for you. The so-called lost art has been found and will be on traveling exhibition for the rest of the season at gyms around the Ivy League.

HUP's lack of office space forces women to go to clinics for abortions and denies doctors a valuable learning experience.

Thanks to Penn's follow-through on promoting interdisciplinary education, Marx and Nietzsche are making a comeback.