With 310 victories as Penn men's basketball coach, Fran Dunphy knew the taste of victory in the Palestra. But two years ago, in his first opportunity to savor success as a visiting head coach, Dunphy and his current team - Big 5 rival Temple -- blew an early 19-point lead and lost to Penn, 76-74, on a trio of Mark Zoller free throws with 1.

For four days in 1978, Penn students held a sit-in at College Hall. At first they were protesting University plans to cut sports programs, but soon the focus turned to anger about climbing tuition and residence fees. As the protest continued, a few participants began to think even bigger, setting their sights on a student organization to unite and empower campus minority groups.

Penn seems to have acquired a vigilante environmental group. In the past few weeks, stickers appeared on the toilet paper caddies in Huntsman Hall bathrooms requesting that students avoid taking an extra sheet of toilet paper. The stickers read, "Green Policy in Effect: Do you really need that extra sheet?" An image of an angry toilet paper roll and a crossed-out hand are also on the sticker.

com The Student Activities Council announced yesterday that it plans to give annual budgets to political groups for non-partisan and non-candidate-related purposes starting in the 2009-2010 fiscal year. The move would give SAC funding to political groups for the first time, explained College junior and SAC chairwoman Natalie Vernon.

Five years and nearly 35,000 lawsuits later, the Recording Industry Association of America is stopping its legal war against individuals for file-sharing activities. The announcement comes as a relief for many students who worried about facing fines; however, the University has not yet determined how it will affect its policies, if at all.

In response to intensified conflict in the Gaza Strip, the University announced last week that it will no longer permit students to study abroad in Israel and the West Bank through Penn programs this semester. Ten Penn students planned to study in Israel or Palestine this semester.

Feeling stressed over finals? Try yoga. The Penn Women's Center touted this method at a Free-Yoga-Free-Yogurt event this past Saturday. During the event, nutrition counselor, massage therapist and yoga instructor Jillian Bird took students' minds off life's daily stresses by teaching basic yoga moves.

Inauguration tickets are on every political junkie's holiday wish list this year. But falling short of that, the Office of the Vice Provost for University Life is getting a lucky group of students as close as possible. At midnight on Jan. 20, a bus full of Penn students will leave campus bound for Washington, D.

ORLANDO, Fla. - When the Quakers finally took the stage again tonight against Central Florida after a record 24-day layoff it was just for more of the same as before the break. Penn fell 81-64 to UCF in the second game of the UCF Holiday Classic and dropped into the third place contest tomorrow against 3-7 Campbell slated for 4:30 p.

To say that the Penn men's swimming team took the cake at the Jan. 3 Florida Atlantic Invitational would be an understatement. The men placed first with a score of 830.5, defeating Ivy League rival Brown by a margin of 264.5 points in a league-sanctioned dual meet.

Up 14 at halftime against Lafayette, Penn could have turned in a poor second half like it did against Campbell last week. Instead, the Quakers got a trio of threes to start the half, as Tyler Bernardini, Zack Rosen and Rob Belacore drained deep balls on three successive possessions to key Penn's 9-2 to start the second frame.

As posted on CarePages, a HUP Web site where patients' families can post messages and updates. First, on behalf of myself, Beverly, Emily, and Colin, we want to thank everyone here today and the hundreds of our friends, Ryan's friends, and our family who have focused their thoughts and prayers towards Ryan and our family over the last week.

For many freshmen, today isn't just the beginning of a new semester - it's the start of their introduction to the Greek system on campus. Penn's fraternities and sororities are putting on their best show for prospective members, offering free food and a good time spread out over a wide variety of events.

After getting knocked down by a better team, it's good to have an inferior one to bounce back against. That was how the men's squash team felt, as it rebounded from an 8-1 thrashing at the hands of No. 3 Yale to dominate No. 14 Brown by the same score. "It's refreshing to be able to go from a bad performance to a pretty good performance," junior Mark Froot said.

Women's tennis coach Mike Dowd will resign effective December 31. Assistant coach Sara Schiffman, a 2006 Penn graduate who was a captain for the Quakers both her junior and senior years, will be interim head coach through the spring semester. "I have made the difficult decision that I need to step down at the end of the month as head coach of women's tennis," Dowd told Penn Athletics.