Daniel Schwartz is a College junior from Decatur, Ga. His e-mail address is dschwartz@dailypennsylvanian.com

Elizabeth Grant, like many other Penn students, went to several Greek parties the first weekend in February. And like other students who had connections to the Greek system, Grant, a College sophomore, went to get a prophylactic dose of Ciprofloxacin on Feb.

Ivy League lacrosse is in Samantha Bird's blood. Penn's senior attack comes from a line of women's lacrosse players. Bird's older sister, Courtney, graduated from Princeton last year, while her younger sister, Georgia, is currently a freshman on Dartmouth's roster.

Assault March 29 - Clifford Jorden, 20, unaffiliated with the University and of the 6000 block of Lindbergh Boulevard, was arrested at about 1:45 a.m. for allegedly striking a male student, 21, in the head with a glass bottle on the 300 block of 40th Street.

Many Penn students (read: haters) tend to harbor a certain disregard for our peer institutions, as exemplified by basketball fans' over-enthusiastic trash-talking at basketball games and the obligatory groan-plus-rolling-of-the-eyes reaction whenever anyone mentions the word Princeton.

On March 30, 2009, Colin Kavanaugh wrote a column praising Sen. Arlen Specter for his recently declared opposition to the Employee Free Choice Act. We wish to respond to his piece and explain why we, and many others, view Specter's decision as a gross betrayal of the working people in this state who have so long supported him.

What do you get when you blend a fake afro, a Celine Dion video, a cookie monster mask and a human banana? Besides a phenomenal theme party, of course. The answer: a third-place finish at the Student Athlete Advisory Committee's athlete talent show, revived for the first time since 2006 at the Zellerbach Theater this past Monday evening.

The small room that will house the new Nursing Biobehavioral Research Lab in Claire Fagin Hall may not look like much, but for the researchers in the School of Nursing, it's a place to call their own.

Rodin College House recently announced that, for the next two years, it will no longer admit freshman. There are several sound reasons behind the decision. The communal culture in the high rises - something most consider essential for a successful freshman year - is not nearly at the level of the Quadrangle, Hill or King's Court-English.

SEPTA has just made traveling in Philadelphia cheaper, faster and easier. In a press release, SEPTA announced that it will introduce a "One Day Independence Pass" and a "Family Independence Pass," which will be available for use on trains, trolleys and buses.

Future changes in Rodin College House's demographics will be less about excluding freshmen and more about giving sophomores what they want. College Houses and Academic Services director Leslie Delauter explained that Rodin was chosen as the college house to pilot the changes not due to any issues involving freshmen, but rather due a need to accommodate the growing sophomore demand in high-rise living.

Colin Groshong may have graduated from Penn all the way back in 2007, but the Red and Blue are still following him. Well maybe just the Blue. Groshong, in front of former Penn lightweight rowing teammates and coaches, coxed the Oxford first team "Blue" boat to a win in the 155th incarnation of its paramount contest against Cambridge, known simply as "The Boat Race.

Just hours before the Phillies took the field for Major League Baseball's Opening Night, the Penn football team took to the gridiron at Franklin Field for the first time in 2009. Unlike the Phillies loss to the Braves, this one didn't count: it was the team's annual intrasquad scrimmage.

Nancy Nielsen, president of the American Medical Association, shared "sobering statistics" Tuesday in Huntsman Hall. In Nielson's lecture, "U.S. Health Care: Is 2009 the time for a Revolution?" she discussed the need for major health care reform in the U.S. The event was hosted by the Wharton Politics and Business Association, Wharton's newest student group.

Penn's Medical Emergency Response Team wants 1920 Commons to become an emergency base. Completely student-run, MERT responds to medical emergencies. "We are the first response, and we make sure the patient is stable," College junior and Chief Josh Glick said.

After an encouraging performance with the bats in its last Ivy weekend, the Softball team looked to carry that momentum into a doubleheader against city rival Temple. But besides a pair of home runs, the Quakers couldn't put any additional runs on the board, and the defense wasn't much better in 7-2 and 7-1 losses at Warren Field.

Despite receiving almost 23,000 applications and attracting students from all around the world, Penn is still not a "dream school" - at least according to The Princeton Review. Although Penn did not make the company's "Dream Colleges" list from its "Colleges Hopes and Worries Survey," administrators and college consultants say the rankings will not affect Penn's reputation.