The women's lacrosse team pulled out a 9-8 overtime victory the previous time it faced Duke, in last year's NCAA Tournament Final Four.

Penn will enroll 63 percent of students who were accepted to the class of 2013, according to Dean of Admissions Eric Furda.

Updated May 23 3 p.m. TOWSON, Md., May 22 - Penn almost pulled off one the biggest comebacks in NCAA history, yet fell just short of the incredible. Down 11-7 with 9:14 to go in the NCAA national semifinal against No. 1 Northwestern, the No. 4 Quakers tallied four straight goals, sending the game into overtime.

My application essay to Penn included the line "I live and breathe this Philadelphia freedom," from the Elton John song appropriately titled, "Philadelphia Freedom." This was something of a lie. As a native of Washington, D.C., I often passed the city on the Amtrak train to New York or Boston, and took class trips to Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell.

Though this year's crop of graduating seniors will never have the chance to experience the fruits of the Online Syllabi Initiative, students remaining at Penn now have more information at their fingertips to help them select classes. The proposal, initially begun in 2005 by the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education, created a centralized repository system through which faculty members from each of Penn's 12 schools can upload current and past course syllabi during the advance-registration period.

Two weeks ago I sat in Lovers & Madmen polishing my creative nonfiction final portfolio as it poured outside. I was miserable. It's not that I disliked my work; in fact, I loved this class. But each letter I typed, like steps down a plank, reminded me I was that much closer to finishing my time at Penn.

The CDC confirmed nine cases of swine flu in Philadelphia as of Thursday morning, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Eleven probable cases of swine flu have now been reported in Philadelphia, though the infection has not affected the Penn community.

Almost a fifth of Penn Law's graduating class had full-time post-graduate plans secured - only to have their hiring firm delay start dates and withhold expected salaries. Since a large number of firms are recommending, or even requiring, that graduates pursue nonprofit work during the deferred interim, a number of graduates are finding themselves without adequate resources.

/media/paper882/stills/2exo1310.jpg Amira Fawcett is an Engineering senior from Houston. Her e-mail address is fawcett@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Thefts from buildings more than doubled compared to April 2008, while incidents of violent crime were down since that time last year. Crimes against property showed little change overall. Building thefts increased sharply from 14 last year to 30 this year.

It is commonly believed that people with dark hair, skin and eyes are less likely to get skin cancer - but a new study by Penn's School of Medicine suggests that both this darker coloring and tanning are not what determine a person's risk of getting skin cancer.

Updated May 17, 2:35 p.m. Yesterday on Vidas field, the phrase down to the wire took on a whole new meaning. Senior attack Becca Edwards scored with five seconds left in the second overtime to seal a Quakers victory, 10-9, over Duke and a trip to the Final Four in Towson, Md.

My parents' histories have a curious way of haunting me, no matter how vigorous my evasive maneuvering. Strangely enough, the combination of my mother's and father's efforts to let me evolve into my own person has - upon reflection on my time at The Daily Pennsylvanian and at Penn - completely backfired.

Penn will enroll 63 percent of students who were accepted to the class of 2013, according to Dean of Admissions Eric Furda. Although the University's yield - the number of students who accept an offer of admission - is the same as last year, that figure has dropped from 66 percent in 2007.

The Undergraduate Assembly, the Office of the Provost, and a dozen campus organizations will put the "new" back into New Student Orientation this fall as they work together to provide new and improved late-night activities to entering freshmen during the weekend of NSO.

Just a few years before his tragic passing, sportswriter Dick Schaap wrote in his autobiography that his favorite sport was "collecting people." In four years of writing for the DP, my favorite Penn sport has been just that. I have enjoyed collecting Penn athletes the most because they are some of the more underappreciated and interesting students at this university.

Penn prides itself on having a diverse campus, representing many ethnicities and nationalities throughout both undergraduate and graduate programs. However, the Council of Graduate Schools may not agree with this assessment. Last month, CGS published a report on diversity in graduate schools at the legislative forum at the Library of Congress.