For some Philadelphia residents, Primate Liberation Week is about giving Penn students an education - and a reality check. This past Saturday, a group of some eight residents gathered at the corner of 34th and Walnut streets to protest animal cruelty as the week designated to aiding primates used for scientific research came to a close.

Two shootings occurred Friday night at 40th and Ludlow streets, killing one man and seriously injuring another. Terrence Davis, 18, was shot once in the back and was pronounced dead at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania at 2:10 a.m. Saturday, according to Officer Jill Russell, a Philadelphia Police spokeswoman.

Walking into Steinberg-Dietrich Hall last night, political analyst and Fox News commentator Dick Morris made it a point to introduce himself by shaking every attendee's hand, whether liberal or conservative. The College Republicans hosted Morris to speak to students about the upcoming presidential election and the looming fascist Islamic threat.

Goalkeeper Sara Rose has posted four shutouts for the women's soccer team this season, including blank slates over Harvard and Cornell - and there is nothing to stop her from thinking that Dartmouth will struggle to put one past her tomorrow in Hanover, N.

You know her as president, but now Amy Gutmann is taking on the role of professor, too. School of Arts and Sciences Dean Rebecca Bushnell announced last week that Penn President Amy Gutmann has been named the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor in Political Science.

Fraternity houses are not known for being spotless - especially when some of the inhabitants shed all over the carpet. But that's a price the brothers of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house are willing to pay for the company of Brando and Callie. Brando, a yellow Labrador Retriever, and his sister Callie, a Chocolate Lab, can often be found at house parties and late night get-togethers stealing all the ladies and lapping up the attention.

YouTube-addicts beware - more distractions are on their way. The video-streaming Web site is in the process of loading several full-length episodes of TV shows such as Star Trek, Beverly Hills 90210 and MacGyver onto the site. This is a test run of YouTube's new "theater format," which features higher video quality and longer selections than the usual YouTube clips, and the player dims the rest of the applications open on screen.

With more people registered as Democrats than as Republicans in both Philadelphia and the state, Pennsylvania is looking a lot less like a swing state. But experts say more registered Democrats won't necessarily result in a victory for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.

We're a nation of borrowers. According to Wednesday's USA Today (or does that make it the "USA Two days ago?") the average borrower's credit-card debt now stands at $1,717. The government borrowed billions from China to finance its no-tax and spend policies and doubled the national debt to $10 trillion over the past eight years (though, to be fair, I got this figure from the most recent Presidential debate, so there's no guarantee).

The men's soccer team returned to early-season form Saturday night with a 1-0 victory over host Dartmouth. Goalkeeper Drew Healy notched nine saves en route to his eighth shutout of the season, bringing the Quakers' to 8-2-3 overall. The lone goal came off the foot of senior midfielder Alex Grendi in the 33rd minute.

From financial crises to city-flattening natural disasters, the United States is a nation at risk. It is the management of that risk that is important, argues Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, who spoke at Penn yesterday about these issues at the federal level.

After a healthy helping of hearing John McCain boast about "Joe the plumber" in Wednesday's presidential debate, journalist Katha Pollitt helped to ease the tension of the political race while discussing her views at Houston Hall last night. Tackling issues such as abortion, poverty, human rights and foreign policy in her writing, Pollitt considers herself a feminist columnist.

By ANDY KUHN Contributing Writer dpsports@dailypennsylvanian.com The seven-hour ride to New Hampshire will be almost as challenging for the men's soccer team as the actual game with Dartmouth. That's because of what the ride home might mean. The fear of departing with an "L" to an Ivy League opponent is motivation enough for the Quakers to play at the top of their game.

A vacant West Philadelphia lot is being prepared for the relocation of the city's only secure youth detention facility - but the elementary school across the street is so unhappy about the move that it also intends to relocate, according to the school's chief administrative officer.

Alex Jacobson is a College junior from Los Angeles. His e-mail address is jacobson@dailypennsylvanian.com.

There's bad luck - and then there's Columbia luck. The Lions' football program is certainly no stranger to losing streaks. Its 44-game skid in the 1980s is the second-longest in Division I history. But now, trying to ride out a 12-game tumble - the second-longest active rut in the Football Championship Subdivision - Columbia(0-4, 0-1 Ivy) seems to be getting the short end of every stick and the raw end of every deal.

Six Penn faculty members - the most from any institution nationwide - have been inducted into the Institute of Medicine, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences. The group, a non-governmental organization that advises the nation on health- and science-related matters, announced its 65 newest members earlier this week.