When the Penn men's soccer team hosted American last year, Eagles head coach Todd West rested some of his key players for a crucial conference tilt three days afterward. Yesterday, Penn coach Rudy Fuller saw for himself the potential benefits of that decision.

It appears that for Penn field hockey team, their recent scoring drought has turned into a deluge. After handing the University of Maryland Baltimore County a 3-0 loss yesterday afternoon, the Quakers (7-7, 2-2 Ivy) have scored 14 goals in their five games since the mid-season mark.

David Rittenhouse would be rolling in his grave if he saw how ugly and unnavigable his namesake building has become.

Penn was founded in 1740. Benjamin Franklin founded Penn. Therefore, Benjamin Franklin founded Penn in 1740. Not quite, according to Wikipedia. Dan Smith, a 60-year-old software engineer from outside Boston, wrote on the site that a group led by evangelist George Whitefield tried to start the school that would become Penn in 1740, even putting up the first building.

Junior Jason Pinsky is looking to ace his midterm at Penn this week. This midterm will take place from today through Tuesday at Penn's Levy Pavilion, where he will look to lead the men's tennis team to a strong showing at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's Northeast Men's Regional Championship.

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

Boripat Donmon, of Thailand, couldn't believe AIDS would ever appear in his country - and that he would become infected. "Twenty years ago, I associated AIDS with Europe and Africa. I never thought it would appear on the Asian continent," he said. "About 10 years later, I realized I had it.

After a traumatic first two seasons in Old Nassau, Princeton basketball coach Joe Scottfinally seemed to get his program moving in the right direction. By the end of last year, his Tigers were 10-4 in the Ivy League after a horrific start. Now, as basketball teams around the nation begin practicing, it looks like the personnel woes that have beset the Tigers could continue.

In the often cruel world of big business, some minority students are finding that getting a job is not so scary after all. In increasing numbers, many businesses are finding their way to Penn's campus to recruit minority students and help calm their job-hunting fears.

When Yale faced Lehigh last weekend, the result was anything but predictable.

Prosecutors can count on racking up more bills if they retry Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya for murder, but not on a better chance of a conviction, law experts say. Malinovskaya's first-degree murder trial was declared a mistrial for the second time last Thursday after the jury announced a 6-6 deadlock.

It's all about the name game in Pennsylvania. In the past weeks, with the Nov. 7 election approaching, a number of big-name politicians - some of whom are running for office themselves - have dropped in on Philadelphia and other cities in the state to throw their weight behind local candidates.

Hannah Arendt's writings on totalitarianism could have ominous resonances in the modern era, according to author Elisabeth Young-Bruehl. At the Penn Bookstore yesterday, Young-Bruehl presented her book Why Arendt Matters. The author related the theory of autocracy discussed by Arendt, a provocative author and political commentator as well as Young-Bruehl's doctorate professor and mentor, to current events.

In next month's contests, Republicans will have to overcome curse of sixth-year election and spat of controversies.

Environmentalists, student leaders and University officials all agree: Penn is sending too much of its trash to the dump. Student environmental leaders said that Penn doesn't recycle as well as its Ivy League peers and presented their proposal for better conservation on campus at yesterday's University Council meeting.

Can't decide whether to go into science or business? Steven Nichtberger has made a career in both. Nichtberger, an alumnus of both Wharton and the College and the founder of Tengion, Inc., spoke last night in Huntsman Hall about "opportunities and challenges for the scientist-business leader.

The flu season has arrived once again, and many Penn students are expected to line up outside Student Health Services for their flu shots. This year, Student Health officials say they are much better prepared to fight the flu virus than they were last year.