Abdi Farah is a College sophomore from Owings Mills, Md. His e-mail address is abdm@sas.upenn.edu.

You may soon be asking for that coffee with a doubleshot of Chestnut. The Hanover Company, which owns the Domus luxury apartment complex on 34th and Chestnut streets, is currently in talks with several companies to fill the building's retail component. Wachovia Bank is slated to occupy a 5,000 square-foot space on the first floor, and Hanover is also looking to bring in two restaurants, a coffee shop and a sporting goods store, said Andi Pesacov, the real estate broker hired by Hanover.

At the end of their first year at Penn, when other freshmen were just trying to figure out how they were going to pack up all their belongings, Peter Handy and his business partner, Joseph Leary, were coming up with a new entrepreneurial concept that would help make the entire moving process a lot easier for their fellow students.

When Nursing junior Elsa Waldman went back to her dorm last night, something was noticeably different: She was missing 11 inches of hair.

This season, Eagles fans finally have cause for celebration. Bald eagle fans, that is: After a 200 year hiatus, the bird has returned to Philadelphia. Philadelphia bird watcher Debbie Beer discovered a bald eagle's nest early last month after following a tip from a local truck driver who was passing the site on his way home.

3,196Active-duty soldiers who deserted from the Army last year; this is 853 more than previously reported. Source: The New York Times

David Cornbrooks wants his ring back. It's the one he should have had last year. A little less than a month into its season, the Penn lacrosse team is off to a fast start, with an early leg up in the Ivy League standings and a weak Harvard team looming just ahead.

Being a Quaker just got more expensive. As of this coming academic year, tuition, fees and room and board for Penn undergraduate students will add up to $46,124, up from $43,960 this year. This new figure, announced yesterday at the Board of Trustees Budget and Finance Committee, marks a 4.

An incident Wednesday night has sparked outrage among campus minority groups, who allege that Penn Police and security guards used racial profiling in detaining a black male College student. The United Minorities Council issued a statement yesterday demanding that the University address several of the organization's concerns relating to the "institutional discrimination" that "persists within our university.

The snow and hail that plagued the area last weekend may likely be the last evidence of winter, but warmer spring weather might bring some unpleasant side effects of its own. Division of Public Safety officials and criminology experts say they expect crime rates to increase as warmer weather hits the area and more people head outdoors.

Penn could certainly use a quick pick-me-up after Wednesday's disappointing extra-inning 2-1 loss to Lafayette: Columbia.

For students and professors struggling with e-mail etiquette, keeping it formal is the safest choice.

Voting seems a lot less tedious when it comes with cotton candy. This afternoon, the Nominations and Elections Committee held its annual "Get Out the Vote" event, an afternoon of free food and music to remind students to vote for the 66 candidates running for spots in the Undergraduate Assembly and all four class boards.

Steve Capus, president of NBC News, has come a long way from his days as a Temple University undergraduate working at local television station WCAU. As Gail Shister said to her television criticism class in her introduction of Capus, "19 years later . the [Temple] owl is running the peacock.

Alternative viewpoints To the Editor: It's not surprising that when Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz spoke at Annenberg, University of Pennsylvania on March 14, he seized his opportunity to grandstand in polemics against renowned political scientist Norman Finkelstein.

Complaining to friends and family is a good way to blow off steam, but it shouldn't get in the way of real communication.

After losing a close game to Lafeyette 6-5 in the first half of its doubleheader, the Penn softball team had the last word, rallying to take the second game 5-0. Penn's first game was plagued by defensive miscues. The Quakers (8-6) committed a total of four errors that cost them five unearned runs.