The story for the Penn men's tennis team has become quite familiar: The squad has challenged itself with tough road matches against top-tier teams and repeatedly come up short. The 68th-ranked Quakers experienced a similar result this weekend when they fell at No.

Recently, Norman Finkelstein was invited to Penn. Among the "sponsors" are the Political Science department as well as other groups. Some of those extending the invitations are unaware of Finkelstein's willing collaboration with neo-Nazis, Holocaust deniers and anti-Semites.

200Years, prior to Feb. 27, since a bald eagle was spotted in Philadelphia. Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer

LEXINGTON, Ky., March 15 - Virginia Commonwealth did it, and the Rams moved on. Penn didn't do it, and the Quakers went home. Penn, in its loss to third-seeded Texas A&M; Thursday, failed to do what so many underdogs fail to do in chalky first rounds. They couldn't capitalize at the tipping point of the upset.

The commercials recently developed by the University were not shown during Penn's NCAA Tournament game last Thursday because CBS decided not to broadcast any university advertisements during this year's tournament, Vice President of University Communications Lori Doyle said Friday.

Get it while it's hot: Starting today, 665 copies of The New York Times will be available for free around campus. The distribution is part of an Undergraduate Assembly initiative to bring the newspaper to University students, free of charge. The Times approached the UA in January to see if it was interested in implementing the Pilot Readership Program, said College junior Jason Karsh, the UA's vice chairman of external affairs.

More and more, universities are putting materials from their courses online for public access.

Most gay students would probably agree that coming out is hard. But at Penn, LGBT officials hope to make it a bit easier. This evening, the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center will kick off Qspace, an online chat room open twice a week to the entire Penn community.

For fifteen and a half innings, Penn's doubleheader at Georgetown went exactly as baseball coach John Cole scripted. The Quakers won the seven-inning opener 8-0 behind the arm of freshman stud Todd Roth, and, up 2-1 in the ninth inning of game two, Cole signaled for ace reliever Doug Brown.

Don't even ask David Cornbrooks what he thinks of Yale. "This is our first Saturday home game, our Ivy opener, and we don't really like Yale, so everyone is excited," said the senior captain Cornbrooks. No one is arguing that the men's lacrosse team is excited about getting the Ivy League season underway.

As a slow, synchronized clap transformed into a raucous chorus of hoots and hollers in the moments before tip-off, Cavanaugh's morphed from a sports bar into section 115 of the Palestra.

Most people rely on nurses to draw blood, give shots and take temperatures at the doctor's office. But for how much longer? In his fiscal year 2008 budget, released last month, President George W. Bush called for a $44 million decrease in funding for Nursing Workforce Development Programs, which provide financial support for nursing schools nationwide- including Penn's.

Administrators wrongly assume that fewer requirements for freshmen mean less interesting classes should be offered.

Admissions officers nationwide have officially entered the blogosphere -but don't expect to read posts from Dean of Admissions Lee Stetson anytime soon . Schools like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Virginia and the University of Chicago have all recently started blogs aimed at assisting prospective students in the admissions process.

It was a game Texas A&M; was supposed to win easily. Thirteen-and-a-half point underdogs, the Quakers were so outmatched that some probably thought they shouldn't have even made the trip. So why should Penn fans who are unaffiliated with the basketball team make the trek all the way down to Lexington, Ky.

LEXINGTON, Ky., March 15 - Penn was shooting itself in the foot offensively, but the 14-seed took a 39-37 lead by scoring 21 points in the first seven minutes of the second half. From there, the Aggies decided to take things into their own hands. In the first half the Quakers were bricking open threes, throwing ill-advised passes along the perimeter and missing more than their share of open layups.

Matt Valenti was once again crowned champion at 133 pounds last night at the NCAA Championships held at the Palace in Auburn Hills, Mich. Valenti defeated Coleman Scott of Oklahoma State, 4-2, to take home his second title in four tournament appearances. The first points of the match went to Scott, as he rode Valenti for a takedown in the middle of the first.