Penn should demonstrate it values student health by giving it a better space.

Kristin Connelly had never started a game in her four-year Quakers career, and she only appeared in eight games over that span. Yesterday, however, she was the hero. Senior Day became Kristen Connelly Day after she deflected Margaretha Ehret's blast for the lone goal in a 1-0 victory over Brown.

Facing the possibility of losing control of Congress in a few weeks, Republicans are haunted by their mistakes and scandals over the past few years, two political experts say. Political discourse was in full swing Friday evening as about 40 students, alumni and community members gathered at a roundtable discussion entitled "Democracy in Action: A Look at the 2006 Mid-Term Election" in Fisher-Bennett Hall.

Walking around Philadelphia reminds Penn alumnus Steven Conn of the blockbuster movie The Sixth Sense. "This region lives with its own ghosts," Conn said. Conn presented his book, Metropolitan Philadelphia: Living with the Presence of the Past, in front of an audience of about a dozen at the Penn Bookstore Friday evening.

Currently, presidents and scholarship chairs of frats and sororities can receive students' grades - unless they opt out.

It's a case of political he-said-she-said, and this time Penn is smack in the middle.

Some administrators say seniors hazed and tormented juniors at Hey Day last April. But is that how the juniors saw it? Those students, now seniors, will have an opportunity this week to weigh in on the future of Hey Day through an online survey.

Students should put off the drinking for a few hours to open up their houses, or dorms, for trick-or-treaters.

Lucy Kerman --- who helped guide Penn's West Philadelphia initiatives for almost a decade -- -may have left the University President's Office, but her relationship with the West Philadelphia community hasn't ended. In fact, it will be honored when she receives the Calvary Center 2006 Community Beacon Award Nov.

Just in case Penn is ever the target of a terrorist attack, Uncle Sam has the financial part covered. The Department of the Treasury issued a statement last month that said the federal government would pay the most expensive insurance costs if terrorists ever launch a large-scale attack.

From bankrupt social programs to a trashed environment, we aren't ready for continued American population growth.

Two straight overtime games, two straight kicks shanked to the right and two straight Ivy League losses. In the end, that was the fate of the Penn football team.

In the advanced calculus that is the elite college admissions process, students already weigh variables like race, home state and legacy status when trying to determine their chances at getting into their dream schools. But now there may be a new application X-factor to grapple with - sexual orientation.

Officials announced that they are more than $1 billion into the largest fundraising campaign in University history as the annual fall trustee meetings drew to a close. Friday was the second and final day of trustee committee meetings that had been taking place at the Inn at Penn.

Penn men's soccer goalkeeper Dan Cepero fittingly marked his senior night with a clean sheet during the Quakers' crucial tilt against Brown. Unfortunately for Penn, so did Cepero's counterpart. The result - a 0-0 double-overtime draw on Saturday night against the Ivy League's defending co-champions - probably belied the flow of the game.

Penn suffered a death from a thousand cuts on Saturday, most of them at the hands of Brown quarterback Joe DiGiacomo. They came in many forms. Short screen passes to tight ends and halfbacks. Tosses to wide receivers for single-digit gains. The occasional keeper or two.

On Friday, at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, the Penn men and women's cross country teams ran in the 2006 Heptagonal Championships. Competing against their Ivy rivals, the women's team finished in fifth place while the men's team finished in sixth. Women's coach Gwen Harris and her team were disappointed with their fifth-place finish in the five-kilometer race.