At age 13, author Daphne Oz saw her father perform heart surgery on a patient in the hospital. As her father cut open the patient's chest and squeezed the built-up fat out of an artery, he explained to her what had led to the man's feeble condition. "He said it was a direct result of the man's unhealthy eating habits throughout his entire life," Oz said.

Only 28 percent of volleyball recruits who enter as freshmen end their senior years still on the team.

If the fall season indicates how well the men's golf team will do come the more important spring season, the Quakers have a successful season to look forward to. The team finished tied for second at this weekend's Big 5 Classic held at the Philadelphia Cricket Club.

Dawn came at 7:12 this morning, and the sun will shine for a little over 11 hours until dusk arrives at 6:20 this evening. The precise number of daylight hours may have no bearing on the typical Penn student's sleep schedule or mealtimes. But for the University's Muslim student population during the holy month of Ramadan, the sun governs when to eat, when to sleep and when to pray.

It was a good weekend for Penn field hockey players Nicole Black and Tracy Statter. The duo combined for all six of the goals the Quakers put on the board during their 3-2 victory over Columbia and 3-0 shutout of Drexel, with each contributing three. But those goals took some setting up.

Nursing sophomore Shannon Hemschoot went for a run this weekend, but it had more meaning for her than the average jog. Hemschoot, whose mother died of breast cancer, participated yesterday in the sixth annual Rena Rowan Ribbon 5K Run to benefit those suffering from the disease.

Lawyers had two chances to convict Irina Malinovskaya of murder - it's time to give up the case.

Laura Rugarber is a College of General Studies graduate student. Her e-mail address is rugarber@dailypennsylvanian.com.

It wasn't the offensive futility that defined the Penn women's soccer team's loss to Dartmouth yesterday. And it wasn't the injuries to the Quakers' frontline or their severely altered rotation. According to coach Darren Ambrose, Penn's 1-0 loss could be described in four simple words: "One mistake, one goal.

Not too long ago, I thought economics was about making money and getting rich. Now I know it's about using weird mathematical models to understand human behavior and perhaps try and predict what will happen, and then - says the joke- use some more of that math to explain why those predictions were wrong.

Over the weekend at the Palestra, the Penn volleyball team faced two Ivy rivals in Columbia and Cornell, but it seemed like two separate Quakers teams that came away with a dominating win and a disappointing loss. On Friday night, a bigger, stronger and more athletic Quakers team controlled the tempo against Columbia from start to finish en route to a 3-0 victory.

Before last weekend's sprint football game, senior quarterback Mike Loguidice told his team in the tunnel, "We're not letting them think they can run all over us." But the Quakers might not have been able to do too much about it. Army wore down Penn's defense, and the Quakers were unable to build up any offensive strength, as the Black Knights won 16-7.

Dan Spitzer, a mild-mannered second-year Law student, takes time to contemplate every word before he speaks. He is soft-spoken and polite.

The rules for Friday's televised debate between Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and his challenger in November's midterm election, Bob Casey, were very clear. The two candidates, however, were bent on breaking them. Ignoring moderator Ken Rice's pleas to conform to the allocated response times, Santorum and Casey repeatedly talked over one another, pointing their fingers in each other's faces as they sparred in Pittsburgh.

Iran's greatest threat to the world may be an attack straight out of a James Bond movie - electromagnetic pulses. "EMP is the threat of the future," Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) said in a campus appearance yesterday. Before a crowd of roughly 20 in Huntsman Hall, Weldon presented his thoughts on the security of Israel in a talk jointly sponsored by the Penn Israel Coalition and the College Republicans.

Newer ways of rating professors and classes are infiltrating the Ivy League, but Penn has no plans to join the world of online academic evaluation, officials say. Brown University registered earlier this month for Pickaprof.

With over a dozen signs hanging from trees on College Green and a six-foot cardboard ear of corn, 20/20 Vision's first event as a Penn organization was hard to miss. The College Green Energy Fair, sponsored by 20/20 Vision, was held to mark Earth Day's half-birthday, which falls on a week from today, on Friday.