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

BLACKSBURG, Va. - The day after the most brutal attack ever to take place on an American college campus, Virginia Polytechnic Institute students struggled to come to grips with their new reality.

Matt Toffaletti was just conscious enough to win the game for Penn. After colliding with pitcher Joe Thornton and hitting the deck hard while chasing a foul pop-up in the seventh inning of yesterday's home game against Lehigh, Toffaletti could barely get up.

Parents, students, officials and experts all agree that Penn's academic reputation trumps concerns about the dangers of Penn's surrounding neighborhood for prospective students.

Almost exactly a year ago, Glen Miller was just a name mentioned as a possible candidate for the Penn hoops coaching job, left vacant after longtime head man Fran Dunphy left for Temple a week earlier. He was the coach at Brown, and even said on April 15 that he was not interested in the Quakers job.

If the University administration has its way, the Student Health Services offices will be moving to a new home on 3535 Market St. Over Commencement weekend, the Board of Trustees will conduct a final vote on whether the facility should move for the 2008-2009 academic year.

91Miles per hour at which N.J. Governor Jon Corzine's SUV was travelling before the vehicle crashed into a guardrail last week. Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer

BLACKSBURG, Va. - "Let's go Hokies!" they yelled. What started as a somber gathering after a tragic massacre ended with students erupting into cheer, a much-needed dose of hope and pride for a beleaguered university. Virginia Polytechnic Institute held a memorial convocation service yesterday afternoon at the university's basketball arena, one day after the deadliest shooting in U.

BLACKSBURG, Va. - Throughout silence and cheers, thousands of candles lit the night sky at Virginia Polytechnic Institute Drill Field.

Theft Apr. 12 - A female student, 28, reported that her chained bicycle was removed from Vance Hall, located at 3733 Spruce St. Apr. 11 - A female student, 20, reported that while in a dark-room in Addams Hall, located at 200 S. 36th St., her wallet was removed from her unsecured backpack at about 8:40 p.

Jason Karsh has the experience, energy and vision to lead the Undergraduate Assembly.

Despite Ben Franklin's best intentions, Penn's current curriculum doesn't do enough to produce 'good' citizens.

Daily Pennsylvanian: Let's jump right in. Is your office always this messy? Charlie Powell: No, it's clean! The spring gets crazy. You get everything from home meets, Penn Relays stuff, expense reports, budget stuff. It gets really messy in the spring; it cleans back up in the summer.

The Division of Public Safety released yesterday the final report of its investigation of last month's alleged racial profiling incident, concluding that the officers involved acted properly and according to procedure and that no racial profiling occurred.

Believers in momentum, that mysterious intangible that athletes and coaches love to harp on, could claim that the Penn baseball team is nearly guaranteed a win today after a clutch sweep of Cornell this weekend. But if the Quakers' tendencies this season are any indicator, today's contest against Lehigh (11-22-1, 1-11 Patriot) will not be a cakewalk, even with Penn riding the boost of two division wins.

When Virginia Tech sophomore Ashley Roe left school yesterday, the campus, normally bustling with 26,000 students, was "a ghost town." "There was a line of police cars, and they were talking to people trying to enter the campus," she said. Yesterday morning, in the deadliest gun massacre in U.

In the wake of shootings on the Virginia Tech campus, Vice President of Public Safety Maureen Rush called for better communication and improved student preparedness as the best way to ensure safety if a similar incident were to occur on campus. Thirty-two people were killed before an unidentified gunman took his own life yesterday at the rural Virginia campus in the worst mass shooting in United States history.