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.

Penn coach Karin Brower and the women's lacrosse team have employed a simple formula: play at home and win. So when Cornell comes to town on Saturday, the red-hot Quakers - who have yet to lose in Philadelphia this season - will try to take full advantage of Franklin Field's comforts while they still can.

At a Philadelphia Zoning Board meeting yesterday, it was the prospect of alcohol that caused emotions to run high. About 80 West Philadelphia residents, mainly local Muslims affiliated with the Masjid Al-Jamia mosque, filled the zoning hearing to capacity, standing in firm opposition to the relocation of the liquor store on 41st and Market streets to 4237 Walnut St.

The Penn softball team is ready to resume play after being idle for over a week - and, as a surprising treat, will do so in its own backyard. Following a weekend full of snow, sleet and several cancelled games, including one against St. Joseph's, the players will get to stretch their legs today against Lafayette (5-5), a team whose number they've regularly had in the past.

To fully appreciate Baker's speech, graduating seniors have a responsibility to research the facts and tune out the spin.

Another fencing season is drawing to a close. For Michael Galligan, it will be his final one at Penn. Although the team's qualifiers were having fun and joking during the car ride over to Madison, N.J., to participate in the four-day NCAA Championships starting today, the Quakers still had mixed emotions about the seniors' final hurrah.

Key points from the Undergraduate Assembly's meeting on Monday night: n The UA passed a proposal to work with Housing and Conference Services and Facilities and Real Estate Services to implement a number of short-term renovations to all college houses excluding the Quadrangle and the three high rises.

According to a study released by the Lumina Foundation for Education, your dream job could be in danger of being outsourced. The foundation's Making Opportunity Affordable: Reinvesting in College Access and Success initiative released a report earlier this month entitled "Hitting Home" that suggests that the United States is falling behind other countries in the amount of degrees that are being produced within its borders - a troubling trend for Americans as globalization continues to spread.

The campus Papa John's Pizza, located at 104 S. 40th St, was robbed at gunpoint early Monday morning, Philadelphia and Penn Police officials said. A male Papa John's employee, 22 and unaffiliated with the University, reported that two males entered the establishment through the side door at about 12:50 a.

Doing well on Advanced Placement tests is paying off - literally. The Advanced Placement Training and Incentive Programs is rewarding students at participating high schools with $250 for receiving a three or higher on AP exams in math, science and English.

Have members of a generation taught to believe that anything is possible turned into narcissistic egomaniacs? According to a recently published report, maybe. The study, initiated by a professor at San Diego State University, analyzed surveys taken by 16,000 college students over the last 25 years and found that key indicators of narcissistic personalty have increased slowly but significantly.

"Who do you want?" "Dhani!" "When do you want him?" "Now!" With this chant, Nursing professor Christopher Coleman riled up a large Fagin Hall crowd yesterday as audience members eagerly awaited the arrival of the Philadelphia Eagles linebacker. Looking classy in his signature bow-tie, Jones spoke passionately about men's health and fitness and how the perception in the U.

It's been like a deal with the devil gone wrong. When the Penn pitching staff traded in its double-digit ERAs of the Florida trip for sterling sub-2.00 marks back in the Northeast, all of a sudden it found the run support missing. Now if only they could put the two phases of the game together.

As the losses continued to pile up, confidence somehow never wavered for the Penn men's tennis team, though lately it has not translated to positive results on the court. Perhaps all it needed was some home cooking, when its confidence off the court finally turned into a dominating performance.

Sponsored by some To the Editor: I am a member of the Political Science faculty. I have also been a tenured member of the Penn faculty for something like thirty years. In all the time that I have been at Penn, this is, in fact, the first time that I have ever found that academic standards and values have been so seriously violated in connection with a singularly academic matter.