Basketball lands 3rd recruit for Class of '11 Penn basketball coach Glen Miller nabbed his third recruit for next year in Glenbrook South High School forward Dan Monckton. The 6-foot-5 high school senior from outside of Chicago had narrowed his choices down to Penn, Princeton, Brown and Eastern Illinois before settling on the Red and Blue.

Two new faculty appointments were announced on Friday, but three of Penn's schools are receiving professors. University President Amy Gutmann announced the appointment of two professors for Penn Integrates Knowledge - her program launched in 2005 to hire professors to hold appointments in multiple schools - at Friday's trustees meeting.

Going into this past weekend, the Penn volleyball team seemed to have a hard road ahead of them. Languishing in a four-match losing streak, it was in seventh place in the Ivy League, and mental mistakes appeared to plague the Quakers. Nevertheless, Penn wasn't expecting anything less than two wins against Dartmouth and Harvard - and it got them both.

The young Penn women's soccer team has already matched last year's win total. Now, with two games remaining, the Quakers have a chance to achieve the 10-win season for which they have strived since Day 1. This will be no easy task, however, as Penn (8-4-2, 1-3-1 Ivy) hosts Brown (9-3-3, 3-1-1) this Sunday afternoon.

Brown linebacker Zak DeOssie grew up around football. In fact, you might say that DeOssie is just continuing the family trade. He is following in the steps of his father, NFL linebacker and special teams long snapper Steve DeOssie. The younger DeOssie is starting his career much like his father did.

In Israel, reporters for Haaretz fought public opinion to fairly present both sides of the security situation there. In Sierra Leone, a struggling network of radio stations pooled their resources and improvised with what little equipment they had to cover the country's 2002 elections and ensure fair voting.

Standing in the Penn Law building that carries his name, Henry Silverman called himself "the poster boy for overpaid executives." But Silverman, who will earn about $140 million this year according to Forbes.com, said being a CEO is not all "peaches and cream.

The Penn rowing teams are gearing up for a busy weekend, which begins with the Head of the Schuylkill Regatta tomorrow and ends with the Princeton Chase Sunday. The annual HOSR will feature races with college teams from all over the country, as well as a variety of races ranging from high schools to rowers ages 60 and above.

Penn Medical Professor Helen Davies has received an award for her work in medical education. The Association of American Medical Colleges is honoring the microbiology professor with the Alpha Omega Alpha award. Davies has been teaching for 40 years, and she was the first female member of Penn Medicine's Microbiology Department.

If Benjamin Franklin were still alive, Skirkanich Hall would be his favorite building on campus, Engineering Dean Eduardo Glandt predicted. Nicknamed Penn's "miracle on 33rd Street" by University President Amy Gutmann, Skirkanich officially opened yesterday.

In front of the players who created it, Al Bagnoli is hoping for some repeated history tomorrow. This Homecoming, Penn (4-2. 2-1 Ivy) is facing Brown (2-4, 1-2) on Oct. 28, just as it did in 2000. The previous weekend that year, the Quakers had lost by three at Yale, just like what occurred this past weekend.

Week 7 is officially trap week in the Ivy League. Yale and Princeton, both coming off huge wins, put their perfect records on the line with a pair of winless teams. No. 18 Princeton (-10.5) at Cornell On paper, it doesn't look like much of a test for one of the two unbeatens left in Division I-AA.

Globalization may be an international phenomenon, but it is wrenching control from local governments and shaping political participation in democracies, three professors said yesterday. Political Science professor Jack Nagel, Anthropology professor Brian Spooner and Management professor Gerald McDermott discussed the impact of international economics on democracy before a small group of students and community members.

This weekend, the Penn volleyball team will hope that home-court advantage, as well as aggressive hitting and solid defense, can help it win two games after last weekend's two road losses. Both Harvard (9-10, 3-5 Ivy) and Dartmouth (10-8, 4-4) come to town as the Quakers try to improve on their seventh-place standing in the Ivy League.

There are 12 multicultural fraternities and sororities on campus, most of them small. Recruitment can be difficult, members say. One sorority last year only had one member, who has since graduated and left the organization empty at Penn. But another multicultural sorority has popped up this year, and this one thinks it can survive.

Politicians try to appeal to every voter's pet issue, but they end up contradicting themselves in the process.

Historic Philadelphia isn't just about documents and cracked bells - the city's past is full of spooks, thrills and ghosts, too. In celebration of Halloween, some of the city's oldest institutions are offering a variety of events showcasing Philadelphia's frightening past.