DOYLESTOWN, Pa. - Convicted sex felon and former Penn student Kurt Mitman had his academic-release privileges terminated Friday and will not be able to return to campus until at least September. University officials discovered last month that Mitman - a first-year Economics graduate student who is serving a jail sentence on child-molestation charges - was commuting to class from a Bucks County prison for up to 12 hours a day as part of an academic-release program. In a hearing Friday, Bucks County Court Judge Theodore Fritsch suspended Mitman's academic release after ordering the Men's Community Corrections Center, at a hearing Jan. 17, to develop a proposal that would include more rigorous restrictions.

Daniel Schwartz is a College freshman from Decatur, Ga. His e-mail address is schwarm@sas.upenn.edu.

You might know that the United States makes up less than 10 percent of the world's population. You might not know that, as a nation, the United States consumes more than 25 percent of the world's energy, however. That was only one of the harsh realities presented to the 120 students who gathered this weekend at Columbia University for the Ivy Leadership Summit on the future of energy.

After the Quakers' loss to Yale on Saturday, coach Glen Miller wasn't happy. And with good reason - his team had just dropped a game in New Haven for the third time in four years, missed well over half of its free throws, and fallen in the standings behind a team that entered Ivy play with a 4-9 record.

Pitted against a surging Temple squad, the Penn gymnastics team took a step backwards Saturday. At the Liberty Classic Invite hosted by the Owls, the Quakers came in second with a point total of 187.175, three points shy of the Owls (190.15) who are 1-5 including a loss to Penn last weekend.

The second-year Penn Law student who allegedly fired nearly 15 shots into his neighbors' apartment door last Wednesday was arraigned and held without bail Friday.

PROVIDENCE, R.I., Feb. 2 - Unlike Fran Dunphy's return to the Palestra, there would be no need for last-second heroics in Glen Miller's return to Brown Friday night. Miller's Quakers made sure of that early, building a 15-point halftime lead before cruising to a 77-61 victory at the Pizzitola Center.

With an increase in points in each of its first three meets, the Penn gymnastics team has been getting better and better. The team's once-biggest obstacle of youth and inexperience has turned out to be its biggest strength, with freshman Marissa Rosen leading the team in almost every category and with steady improvement throughout the whole team.

Philadelphia Big 5 play is over for the Quakers, but Ivy League play is just heating up. The Penn women (6-10, 1-2 Ivy) are gearing up for the bulk of in-conference hoops, which begins tonight when the Red and Blue host Brown (3-15, 1-3) at the Palestra, and continues on Saturday as Yale (10-8, 3-1) visits the Quakers at 7 p.

As anyone from Providence, R.I. can tell you, Brown's Mark McAndrew has basketball in his genes. Just a few months ago, McAndrew's 11 points helped the Bears upset Providence, their Big East, in-state rival, for the first time since 2001. And for McAndrew's biggest supporter - his father, who is also named Mark - the win was bittersweet.

Although they're both finished with league play, the Penn swim teams both face one last challenge before the conference championship meets when they travel to Division II West Chester today. For the Penn men's team (6-7), the focus will be on the races between local swimmers - including the ones between Penn junior Pat Gallagher and West Chester junior Bill Marcum.

Two University employees, one male and one female, were robbed at gunpoint on Tuesday at about 5:55 p.m. on the 4100 block of Pine Street, Philadelphia and Penn Police officials said. Neither complainant was injured in the incident, Division of Public Safety officials said.

By Ashley Humienny Staff Writer humienny@sas.upenn.edu Last week's personal best wasn't enough for Tim Kaijala. At the Penn State National Invitational, Kaijala won the 1000 meters, setting a new personal best in the process. This weekend at the Giegengack Invitational, though, he will be looking for success in a different event.

Getting out the vote To the Editor: "Gone but not forgotten," Mara Gordon's column (DP, 2/1/07), ignores the tremendous past and present success of the Penn Democrats. With a little research, Ms. Gordon would have learned that the Penn Democrats are one of the most active collegiate political organizations in the country - and one of few that have tangibly affected an election.

15Diamonds set into the ring which the winner of Friday's Wing Bowl 15 will receive. Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer

Jailed sex felon and graduate student Kurt Mitman will learn at a hearing today if he will be allowed to return to campus.

Students should view Witness Week as a starting point for action about - not a final solution for - the genocide in Darfur.