Abdi Farah is a College sophomore from Owings Mills, Md. His e-mail address is farah@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Penn Leads the Vote isn't resting on its laurels. Student participation in elections has skyrocketed since the group's inception in 2004, and members are now trying to triple turnout for the vote this November. 2006 College grad Jason Oberman founded Penn leads the vote in collaboration with Joseph Tierney and John DiIulio of the Fox Leadership Program.

Penn's School of Medicine is potentially interested in purchasing a vacant former Dupont lab in nearby Delaware County. Med School officials said they are not sure how much of the nearly 125,000 square foot property the school is considering purchasing but that the research-and-development location will most likely be used as interim or storage space.

The Penn-Princeton rivalry is just a sham, because a real rivalry has to extend beyond just the basketball court.

Wharton professor Justin Wolfers is not ashamed to admit that he knows nothing. In fact, he hoped that his audience would walk away from his research presentation on the death penalty knowing nothing, too. As part of a criminology lecture series, Wolfers spoke to students and colleagues in Huntsman Hall on Friday about the effects of the death penalty as a crime deterrent.

Joe Toy wants people to know he's not just a "solo wacko" out there preaching on college campuses. A licensed minister with the Evangelical Congregational Church and a commissioned missionary, Toy has devoted his life to preaching around the Philadelphia area.

When Penn was storming through the first half of its season last year, its run defense turned heads around the nation by consistently ranking as one of the best in I-AA football. That front seven was among the more inexperienced units on the 2005 Quakers squad, and they returned this year as a relatively sure thing on a team with no shortage of question marks.

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In an interview that touched on campaign promises, middle names and plans for the future, The Daily Pennsylvanian sat down with the new head of the freshman class, Wharton freshman Arthur Gardner Smith. The Daily Pennsylvanian: First off, why do you go by three names? Was it a campaign strategy or have you always gone by them? Arthur Gardner Smith: Well, Gardner's my mom's maiden name.

Missed meetings, apologetic phone calls and an ex-girlfriend's curiosity about seeing her replacement were the focus of the defense's direct examination of Irina Malinovskaya yesterday.

It's time to bring Philadelphia back to the Delaware River, city planners say. The Philadelphia City Planning Commission has big plans for the vacant lots along river in Northeast Philadelphia. The Commission hopes that proposed residences, retail and green spaces will link neighborhoods to the river.

Considering what has happened in the last several weeks, the men's soccer team now has little reason to be intimidated by a big-conference opponent. The Quakers take on Seton Hall, the first of two Big East opponents, tonight at Rhodes Field. The game kicks off at 5 p.

U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings announced last week which recommendations from a higher education report she plans to implement. The report, released last month, is the result of a commission on higher education that Spellings formed last September to consider solutions to problems afflicting higher education in the country.

Graduate-student life causes insomnia with thoughts like "Will I ever finish my dissertation?" "Will I find a job?" and "Am I going to die alone?" Needless to say, a mind already filled with these kinds of irrational thoughts has a short trip to others like urban crime.

Fourth-string quarterback Richard Irvin was all set to start under center for Harvard this weekend. After starter Liam O'Hagan was suspended for misconduct and backups Chris Pizzotti and Jeff Witt went down with injuries, the Crimson was in a tough spot. But after all the drama, Pizzotti recovered more than a week before expected, and led the Crimson to victory.

A child dies every 15 seconds from diarrhea contracted through contaminated water, but the world is still far from solving its shortage of clean water, says one environmental scientist. Stanley Laskowski, a lecturer in the Master of Environmental Studies Program, contended that the water shortage and sanitation crisis constitute one of the biggest environmental problems in the world yesterday in Hayden Hall.

Nearly every morning this summer, I scrambled out of my Columbia University dorm room to squeeze through the swarming porthole at 116th and Broadway - the entrance to the 1 train. One morning in June, I saw a startling change in the subway-car decor: the once proverbial Budweiser ads had all but disappeared, only to be replaced by the gleaming propaganda of Jews for Jesus.