Swimming season starts on Saturday, but Penn has already conceded the title. In fact, the team couldn't care less about who wins the Ivy League crown. Instead of championships, the men are focused on team growth. Coach Mike Schnur knows his team can't beat Top-25 Harvard or defending-champion Princeton, but he is not giving up on the season.

West Philadelphia resident Solange Chadda wants her name on the Pennsylvania ballot for the U.S. Senate race in Pennsylvania - even if it means pushing back this Tuesday's election. Chadda filed a complaint in the Philadelphia District Court against Bob Casey, the Democratic candidate for Senate, and the Board of Elections on Tuesday.

For the last two years, Camden, N.J., has been ranked the most dangerous city in America - but not anymore. This year, Camden is ranked fifth in the annual study by the Morgan Quitno Press, while Philadelphia came in at 29th. The 78,000-person city of Brick Township, N.

Penn recycles only 11 percent of its trash - less than half the next-best Ivy - and the city could save millions with better recycling.

Coach Glen Miller has yet to announce who will be on the floor at tip-off against the University of Texas at El Paso on Nov. 10. "I'm not one to label a starting team too early," Miller said. "There's still a lot of work to be done; we're still implementing the system and making progress there.

Walking around campus last weekend, it would've been difficult to not feel some Quakers pride. Countless red and blue balloons were wrapped around lampposts and hung from buildings. Crowds of alumni - young and old - wandered with smiles around College Green and down Locust Walk as they fondly recalled their warm memories at Penn.

Its location is classified. It costs millions of dollars. And its inhabitants are less than two inches long. The University's Board of Trustees granted about $1.6 million last week to expand the School of Medicine's zebrafish facilities, hundreds of tanks that house thousands of fish - at an undisclosed location.

Penn is getting a new neighbor - the country's premier space for life sciences and technology companies, University City Science Center officials hope. The Science Center is planning an expansion, and last week marked the groundbreaking of a facility at 3711 Market St.

Avery Lawrence is a College junior from Charlottesville, Va. His e-mail address is lawrence@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Penn should push back its drop cutoff, or at least move the pass/fail deadline.

Two prominent Democrats came to campus to spread their message yesterday, but a major focus of the event was why not to vote Republican.

Dear athletic director Steve Bilsky: Sixteen days from now, the men's basketball team will have its first Palestra tip-off of the 2006-07 season. Like many Penn students, that day cannot come soon enough for me. However, too many students do not know that day is coming at all.

Lepisto and Carre have over 450 yards each, while no other WR has eclipsed century mark.

Four of the most powerful women in Penn's administration have had to face the difficulties of being among the first minority women in their positions. Yesterday afternoon, those women spoke about their success in the professional world as part of the 20th annual celebration of the Women of Color organization at Penn.

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

Millions of hurried passengers depend on taxi drivers, but relatively rarely to they talk to their drivers about history, politics and justice. Last night, however, members of the Penn community had the chance to do just that with Biju Matthew and Ronald Blount at a dinner and discussion at the Greenfield Intercultural Center.

Professors will try almost anything to get you to sign up for their classes.