When Division I-AA Montana State recently upended a mediocre Division I-A Colorado football team, the result was considered a monumental upset. So imagine a sport in which top varsity teams are consistently threatened - and often beaten - by a club-level squad.

Following a nail-biting double-overtime victory against Columbia and on the heels of a No. 3 ranking in the Northeast Division by the NSCAA, the men's soccer team is riding high. It's been four years since the Quakers (7-2-1, 3-0 Ivy) and Scarlet Knights (7-6, 4-4 Big East) last met.

With a win over Dartmouth already under its belt, the Penn football team looks to go 2-0 in Ivy League play when it takes on Columbia. There's a good chance that a sentence like that will appear in the football preview found in Friday's Daily Pennsylvanian.

Wondering how to make sure your next party doesn't get busted by the police? Yesterday, C.L. Lindsay presented a step-by-step guide to serving alcohol at a party while avoiding legal trouble in Rodin College House's Rooftop Lounge. Lindsay is the executive director of The Coalition for Student & Academic Rights, which he founded in 1998 to help college students with legal issues.

Stephen Starr got it all wrong.

For those that have never ventured farther west than Qdoba and Allegro's, West Philadelphia has a stigma attached to it that breeds images of desolate paths and constant danger.

With only breakfast and lunch hours and an entrance snugly fit between two larger buildings, La Cigale is easy to overlook.

Behold - the power of cheese.

It's restaurants like Amada that make the trip to Old City worthwhile.

Literally translated as "white flower," Shiroi Hana offers straight-from-the ocean freshness and a tranquil ambience that will make you forget that you're sitting in the heart of Philadelphia's busiest district.

Division of Public Safety initiatives to cut crime on campus may be paying off. Total crime for September in Penn's patrol zone is down 18 percent between 2005 and 2006. While there were 114 incidents of crime around Penn - ranging from assault to bicycle theft - in September last year, there were 93 offenses, all of them considered relatively minor by safety officials, in the same month this year.

My companion to Portofino wanted to order fettuccine alfredo, but the chef, Giuseppe Falconio, wouldn't let him. Sitting at our table, Falconio shook his head at my friend's lack of mealtimes ambition.

As students shuffled into Bodek Lounge yesterday to watch God and Allah Need to Talk, they were handed brochures that posed a single question on their covers. "God is always talking to us," it read. "But are we talking to one another?" Nearly 50 students and community members gathered last night to discuss that question, listening to remarks by student religious groups, University Chaplain William Gipson and journalist Ruth Broyde-Sharone, who produced the film.

If studying for midterms makes you want to go out and splurge on expensive clothing or gadgets, you may be more than simply a procrastinator. A recent study suggests that 5 percent of Americans are compulsive buyers, meaning they frequently purchase items they do not need or want.

It's safe to say that Sunday's win didn't go the way men's soccer coach Rudy Fuller had planned. Penn generally likes to nip a goal early and hold off its opponent's charge late on. In fact, the Quakers haven't trailed for a second in any of their wins. Quality finishing has been a means to that end as Penn's forwards have generally been more opportunistic than their counterparts.

In 1993, George Anastasia says, Philadelphia mob boss John Stanfa ordered his death. The plan was supposedly to throw grenades through the windows of Anastasia's New Jersey home. However, his life was saved when his would-be killers landed behind bars before they had a chance to whack him.

When the fall elections roll around next month, citizens will hold Republicans accountable for the page sex scandal.