I've pretty much made up my mind about this: I would like to have a good job someday. While I haven't conducted any scientific testing yet (and I'm seriously questioning whether that grant will ever get approved), I'm pretty sure that I'm not alone. These are different days from those of our parents.

As the last day to drop classes approaches, students may ditch because they're uninterested or overloaded - or maybe because they don't see an A in the forecast. Over the last few decades, students have developed an increasing focus on grades over educational value, which puts pressure on professors to hand out top marks, educators say.

It has been more than two weeks since the revelation that Wharton MBA admissions officer Judith Hodara also held jobs in the admissions consulting industry, but it remains unclear how her outside positions have impacted the University's conflict-of-interest policy.

While some Quakers were playing basketball on the courts of the Palestra last Friday, another kind of game was going on in the stands. Last Friday night marked the second annual Clash of the Classes, a University-wide event during which the four classes competed for fame and prizes during the Penn vs.

Former Penn Neurosurgery professor Tracy McIntosh plans to appeal his sentence for the sexual assault of his college roommate's niece, a move some legal experts say could have a decent chance of success. McIntosh was sentenced last Wednesday to 3 1/2 to seven years in prison for his September 2002 sexual assault of the then-23-year-old first-year Penn veterinary student.

Sophomore Ekaterina Kosminskaya has been as good as the Quakers could have hoped. She lost just a total of seven singles and doubles matches in the spring of her rookie campaign en route to unanimous Ivy League Rookie and Player of the Year honors. But after missing the Quakers' first two matches of 2008 with the flu, Kosminskaya had to make her season debut against a rare opponent who has had her number.

A sentencing date has been set for former Economics professor Rafael Robb, who pleaded guilty in November to killing his wife. Robb will be sentenced, on June 5 in the Montgomery County Common Pleas Court. Robb's wife, Ellen, was found bludgeoned to death inside the couple's Upper Merion home on Dec.

Universities often draw on their famous alumni to bring well-known speakers to campus. But this political season, there have been no guarantees that the presidential candidates will favor their alma maters. At some college campuses, famed alumni have been noticeably absent, drawing criticism from some students.

The Penn men's squash team was hoping for a fourth-place finish this weekend at the Team Championships in Boston, Mass. It'll have to settle for fifth. After a long bus ride up on Friday and little time left for practice, the Quakers took the courts to face off against Yale in their first-round match.

Down one at halftime, Penn coach Glen Miller talked about the need to come out strong in the second half. But three quick Yale layups after the break had Penn reeling, and it looked like the Quakers could fall below .500 in the Ivy League for the first time since the 2003-04 season.

There were no surprises this weekend for the men's tennis team. In a Sunday doubleheader that went pretty much as expected, the Quakers easily knocked off Delaware and Villanova by a combined score of 13-1. According to Penn coach Nik DeVore, the Quakers (7-1) started the day "flat," dropping the first doubles match to Delaware by an 8-6 margin.

This is the column I never wanted to write but sensed I might have to after watching Loyola take a 30-point lead against Penn at that high school gym in Baltimore. After that game, Glen Miller stressed his team's inexperience. That's when I almost wrote off this season as a rebuilding year.

When Brown came into the Palestra on Friday, 3,642 people witnessed something they hadn't seen in a long time: an Ivy loss for the Quakers in their home gym. The Bears escaped with a 66-61 win, withstanding a furious Penn comeback despite not scoring a field goal in the game's final eight minutes.

New York Mayor and Bloomberg LP founder Michael Bloomberg will speak at this year's Commencement ceremony, according to a University press release. Penn's 252nd Commencement will be held on May 19 at Franklin Field. Bloomberg is now serving his second term as mayor and is credited with reducing crime and creating jobs in New York.

Penn prides itself on hosting the "largest community of color in the Ivy League," according to interim Admissions Dean Eric Kaplan. But that figure can be deceiving as Penn simultaneously ranks low when it comes to Latino students. College junior Angel Jacome, chairman of admissions and recruitment for the Latino Coalition - the umbrella organization for Latino student groups - hopes to reconcile Penn's small Latino population with its reputation for diversity with a series of recruitment initiatives targeted at Latino students.

The streak is finally over. After a disheartening loss at Brown on Friday, 72-59, the women's basketball team stormed back for a surprise 75-67 victory over Yale Saturday in New Haven, Conn. It was the Quakers first victory since Nov. 28, a 15-game stretch.