Penn students can't keep their drunken belligerence under control these days.

When Rocky Balboa is taking sides, you know this week's casino hearings are going to be a battle of heavyweights. On Monday, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board started hearing final proposals from the 13 groups vying for five licenses to operate slots parlors in the state.

Americans can't count on the profit-driven food industry to address the U.S. obesity epidemic, Michele Simon, a public-health lawyer, said last night. Major food companies are pretending to be "part of the solution," when they actually lobby against sound nutrition policies, she said.

The InterFraternity Council elected Wharton junior Austin Pena as its next president last night. Pena, who serves as the president of Tau Epsilon Phi, spoke with The Daily Pennsylvanian about his plans for the IFC, which is the governing body for the majority of Penn's fraternities.

And then there were two. The Lehigh women's basketball team was in a good position at the beginning of preseason, returning four from its starting lineup. But after two of those players went down with anterior cruciate ligament injuries, there was a gap to fill in the starting five.

The road that senior running back Joe Sandberg has traveled started at Penn and will end at Penn, but it won't end this year. While he is a senior by name, Sandberg has only used three years of his NCAA eligibility, and will most likely be back for another year in the Quakers' backfield.

Some students got a taste of poverty yesterday at a "hunger banquet" held in Houston Hall. As attendees walked into the room, they were handed a card that placed them into one of three socioeconomic groups for the night: high income, middle income or low income.

Penn researchers have completed research on a vaccine that may lead to the prevention of certain types of tumors, specifically breast tumors, according to Reuters. The research was presented this weekend at a meeting hosted by the American Association for Cancer Research.

Student-driven assault cases are on the rise, but the Division of Public Safety is - for the most part - sticking to its current crime-fighting tactics.

As it ends its 2006 season, the Penn volleyball team will try to finish on a high note when it travels to play Princeton tonight. The Quakers (11-13, 6-7 Ivy) will try to reverse their earlier 3-1 loss to the Tigers (20-3, 10-3). When these two teams first met on Sept.

Even if ex-Wharton professor Scott Ward is found innocent in his upcoming Virginia trial, an additional arrest warrant awaits him in Pennsylvania. Ward will head to court Feb. 26 in Alexandria, Va., on charges of importing, producing and possessing child pornography, but any charges he faces due to child pornography allegedly found in his Huntsman Hall office have yet to be addressed.

The number of students taking college courses online is on the rise, according to a new study from a group that promotes online education. The study by the Sloan Consortium found that 3.2 million students took at least one course online in the fall of 2005, up 35 percent from the previous year, said Elaine Allen, a co-author of the report and a professor at Babson College.

Just when we thought we were safe, our friendly neighbor to the north revealed it has more on its mind than Mounties and maple syrup. Canadian universities are increasingly courting American students - and a growing number of them are zipping up their snowsuits at top Canadian schools.

Affirmative-action policies should undeniably help those in need, but that takes more than just a look at someone's skin color.

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n Women's Water Polo. The squad hosted a five-team tournament at Sheerr Pool last Saturday and Sunday. They dominated all of their opponents, finishing the weekend with a perfect 4-0 record. After easily defeating Penn State and West Chester, Penn had tougher match-ups against Washington and Jefferson - a varsity squad - and the Greenwich Club team.

Penn really wasted an opportunity for a quality win when it could not put away Texas-El Paso in its season opener. Those are victories that really impress the NCAA Tournament committee come Selection Sunday and help a team get a better seed. And over the course of the season, how many of these chances does Penn really have? The answer is realistically two, or at the absolute most, four.