Amira Fawcett is an Engineering junior from Houston, TX. Her e-mail address is fawcett@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Penn's 8-5 loss to No. 14 Brown last Saturday was the end of Ivy League play. It was not, however, the end of the world. While the Quakers were visibly (and understandably) dejected immediately after becoming the Bears' seventh straight victim, they have since taken the game - and season, for that matter - in stride.

From Ludacris to Gym Class Hereos, the musical acts on campus this past week have been anything but "ordinary." But yesterday's campus visit from five-time Grammy winner and 1999 College graduate John Legend had a political touch to it. Coming just before next Tuesday's Democratic primary in Pennsylvania, Legend was on campus to help rally for Senator Barack Obama Looking to strike the right chord with newly registered voters, Legend performed seven songs, including his signature hit "Ordinary People," at the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

The Undergraduate Assembly adjourned for the year last Sunday night after wrapping up several pieces of legislation from this past year. Members voted to pass the Blood Donor Policy Proposal, which will replace the controversial, recently-passed Blood Donor Discrimination Proposal as the position of the UA.

Which Greek god sprang from the head of Zeus? Who makes more money, MBAs or geologists? These are not the typical questions asked of Penn students, but during yesterday's College Palooza on the Green, visitors were quizzed with such trivia. If you're curious - the answers are Athena and geologists, respectively.

Football coach Al Bagnoli paced the Palestra floor just after noon on Sunday and told members of his team to rouse classmates from their collective hangover. "You guys gonna call some people?" he said to a group of chatting players. "Drag 'em down here." Soon enough, a smattering of students filtered in, and by the end of the day the team had helped to add around 150 names to the National Marrow Donor Program's registry, said Yvette Torres, the NMDP's point person on the project.

After a disappointing stretch of eight straight losses over the past week, the Penn softball team is looking to recover. Yet the struggling Quakers (18-16, 5-7 Ivy) won't get much of a reprieve with a doubleheader today against the Wildcats. "I don't know a lot about Villanova," Penn coach Leslie King said.

Senior societies are all about big names - big-name leaders on campus and their own big names scrawled all over Locust Walk. With three of the oldest senior societies at Penn - the Sphinx Senior Society, the Friar Senior Society and the Mortar Board Senior Honor Society - admitting their new classes this past week, each claims to have snatched up the best and brightest campus leaders around.

The Penn Interfraternity Council is urging the Greek community to write letters telling their congressmen to support the Collegiate Housing and Infrastructure Act, a bill which permits tax-deductible donations to Greek chapter housing corporations. The proposal will make it easier for many chapters to increase alumni donations for these important upgrades.

Rick Heaslip clears between $500 and $1,000 an hour on a good day. Heaslip, a College junior, plays poker professionally when he's not studying Asian-American war literature or working toward his English major. Heaslip is a member of a community of Penn students who play professional or semi-professional poker in person and online.

In light of shootings at Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University by mentally unstable students, universities are trying to figure out how to prevent similar situations from happening again. One such way may be through increased scrutiny of students' pasts during the admissions process.

The Quakers may no longer be in the hunt for the men's lacrosse Ivy League title, but that doesn't mean things aren't interesting for the teams that are still in it. Three Ancient Eight squads - No. 4 Cornell (4-0), No. 14 Brown (3-0) and No. 19 Princeton (3-0) - remain undefeated and are duking it out.

The University chose Patkau Architects of Canada as the designer of Penn's newest College House to be built on Hill Square. The first residential hall to be constructed in over 30 years, Hill Square College House will be designed as a low-rise building enclosing a Quad-like square.

When Gym Class Heroes drummer Matt McGinley was in the ninth grade, he was in a band that had no singer. And then he met Travis McCoy, now the lead singer of Gym Class Heroes. Still, McGinley's band needed a singer, and McCoy took on that role. He was "into poetry," McGinley said in a post-concert interview.

Young people are energized about this year's elections unlike any in recent memory. Turnout has increased dramatically across the country, demonstrating a passion and dedication not seen among youth in a long time. This newest generation of American voters feels more connected to and affected by politics.

The Recording Industry Association of America has hit a roadblock in its efforts to prosecute four students at Boston University for copyright infringement. Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner forbade Boston University - which had been subpoenaed by the RIAA - from providing the names of students to the organization until she further investigates the school's privacy policy.

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