Saturday's football game at Princeton was different because of the atmosphere. If Penn wants to see this kind of turnout at home games, I suggest it rethink its alcohol policies.

Amid the bright lights and oiled bodies, the 18th annual Mr. and Ms. Penn Bodybuilding Contest offered Penn students an opportunity to celebrate the value of health and fitness.

With everything from tradition to titles at stake, five Penn teams squared off against Princeton this weekend. The old Ivy rivalry was alive and well.

The Division of Public Safety has a massive, illicit conspiracy going on right under its nose. At least, that’s how President of Theta Xi Loren Mead and most of the his fraternity sees it.

Aside from the 3-to-4-month season, coaches spend the rest of the year relentlessly promoting their team through practices, fundraising and recruiting.

While new ways to create buzz about the basketball team and facilitating the purchase of season tickets are a positive step, flaws in the "Select-A-Seat BBQ" show the AD may still be missing the mark.

Penn launched its first tailgate two weeks ago at the football season opener, and organizers hope the tradition will continue before every home game.

Last week, College senior Pranav Merchant published an opinion piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer criticizing the Toast Toss tradition after the third quarter at home football games.

The newly finished $26.7 million fitness center rivals any collegiate training facility in the nation, according to strength and conditioning coordinator Jim Steel.

On Saturday, Penn’s sprint football team took on the program’s alumni in their annual pigskin tradition.

In a decidedly different manner, Penn Athletics kicked off the year with a mandatory New Student Orientation picnic on Franklin Field Sunday.

What would the beginning of another year be without some preseason predictions?

Since the end of classes, Penn’s varsity athletes have packed into the new intercollegiate weight room to get started on offseason training.

Now that classes are over, it’s time to see how bad my predictions for this year were.

While there are currently two students who suit up as the Quaker (the other, a junior, will remain anonymous until the end of his or her senior year in keeping with tradition), Penn cheerleading coach Joe Neary is looking for two to three more students to fill out his roster.

Better timing, location and publicity could have given Wednesday’s rally more oomph — something this basketball program needs.

Penn cheerleading will travel to the Universal Cheerleading Association Nationals in Orlando, Fla., on Jan. 15.