In a sport like wrestling, you can go from the brink of winning a match to losing it in a matter of seconds if you don't finish strong. For Penn, too many wrestlers just couldn't close out their matches on Sunday as the Quakers fell to No. 12 Hofstra 25-11 in Hempstead, N.

I dare you. Just try to think of something more relevant to you than real estate prices in the Bronx. Well, thanks to the UA Readership Program, you'll never miss a Knicks box score or a Staten Island Zoning Meeting write-up. You'll always know which new Brooklyn bar is a hit and it will be harder than ever to avoid wondering what Tom Friedman keeps hidden in his mustache.

Avery Lawrence is a College senior from Charlottesville, Va. His e-mail address is lawrence@dailypennsylvanian.com.

With another sub-.500 season in the works, a perpetually half-empty Wachovia Center and a rejuvenated Allen Iverson now snapping nets with the Denver Nuggets, the first month of the 2007-08 season revealed a fundamental truth to the Philadelphia 76ers and their fans: it was a franchise in need of a facelift.

With top-ranked Trinity (7-0) coming to town tonight, the men's squash team finds itself adding new elements to its practice regimen. Contemplating how Penn (5-3) could defeat the Bantams - college squash's premier team for the past decade - one Penn player offered a simple response: "Pray.

Though criminal self-disclosure has been championed as a step toward improving campus safety without an obtrusive criminal background check, its effectiveness remains in question.

Saturday's swim meet against Navy will be unlike any other. The Annapolis pool dictates that races are measured in terms of meters instead of the usual yards.

This Saturday, the 124th Board of Editors and Managers will be inaugurated at the DP's annual banquet.

Professor Modi has arrived on campus. For this semester only, Kalpen Modi - more popularly known as Kal Penn - is an adjunct professor in the Asian American Studies Department, teaching ASAM 109: Asian Americans in the Media.

Though law-school applications are down recently, for some groups of applicants, the decline has more constant. Minority enrollment has decreased in the past decade. First-year enrollments of African American and Mexican American students dropped from 3,937 in 1992 to 3,595 in 2005, according to a recent Columbia Law School study.

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Long lines, cold weather, dimpled chads and senior citizens. When contemplating voting, those are just a few terms that enter a student's mind. But increasingly, students are turning to absentee voting as a way to remain active back home.

Selling beer at campus sporting events would go a long way toward increasing school spirit and filling empty seats.

An unsatisfying relationship with your pre-major advisor is nothing a simple trip to the College Office can't solve.

After twenty years away from his alma mater, 1987 Penn graduate Eric Furda will be back this March - with a few more responsibilities than he had while he was here as a student.

In keeping with his initiative to reduce the crime rates in Philadelphia, Mayor Michael Nutter appointed Charles Ramsey as the city's new Police Commissioner. Vice President for Public Safety Maureen Rush says that she believes that "Commissioner Ramsey will be making a big difference in the Philadelphia Police Department and the City of Philadelphia.

If sophomore wrestler Rollie Peterkin feels he's experiencing some deja vu on Sunday when Penn visits Hofstra, don't blame him. He's already seen his opponent in action.