In recent years, the charity stripe has been anything but charitable to the Penn men's basketball team.

The nation's No. 4 women's squash team has not lost any starters from the previous season

Swans may live the first third of their lives alone, but when these birds find a partner, they stay together for life. The same is true of SWANS - Strong Women Achievers, No Spouse - Christine Whelan, author of Why Smart Men Marry Smart Women, said yesterday in a talk held for about 40 at the Penn Bookstore.

There's a new all-guys club at Penn, but it's not another frat. These guys want to talk sexual assault, and how to help its victims. Twelve students from Penn and Drexel University this semester started up the West Philadelphia chapter of 1in4, an all-male peer-education group that focuses on teaching college men about sexual violence.

Henry Kissinger, secretary of state during Vietnam, said last night that the current war in Iraq echoes the earlier conflict. "Americans want to compromise, but to our enemies, compromise equals defeat," he said.

Penn is becoming an increasingly difficult place for top students to get into. But it's also getting more and more difficult to get faculty members to stay. "The aggressiveness with which schools compete with each other has definitely increased over the years," Wharton Deputy Dean David Schmittlein said.

An everyday nuisance for Penn students turned fatal last month at Ohio State University. On Oct. 20, OSU freshman Andrew Polakowski of Erie, Pa., was killed when he tried to pile into an overcrowded elevator in a dorm on campus. The packed elevator - which had exceeded its maximum weight limit - began to move with the doors still open, and Polakowski was crushed between the elevator and the floor.

By Zachary Levine The Daily Pennsylvanian With all-Ivy swingman Lenny Collins gone, the Cornell basketball team was pinning most of its hopes on Adam Gore, last year's Ivy League Rookie of the Year. Now, the Big Red will have to find another option. Gore will miss the rest of the season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament.

Previous UA proposals a Palestra park, a massive new student center and many other ideas worth embracing.

We are just four days from tip-off for the first home basketball game. With that, here are some rules all fans should consider when attending a game at the Palestra. 1. Go to the games. None of the other rules matter if you do not follow this one. There are so many reasons to attend, and just listening on the radio isn't a substitute.

Alicia Puglionesi is a College sophomore from Havertown, Pa. Her e-mail address is puglionesi@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Incidents of racist and homophobic behavior "are not hard to find on Penn Athletic teams," according to an Undergraduate Assembly proposal passed Sunday night.

Abbie Feinberg (white shirt) and other members of the Amorphous Jugglers practice their fire- juggling techniques on College Green near Van Pelt Library on Saturday.

University President Amy Gutmann put her money where her mouth is last night.

Rising to the challenge of doing something seemingly impossible can be an unbeatable experience.

Whether it means leaving early or staying late, graduating in December comes with many advantages.

Philadelphia officials must think the city is too classy for the average Porta-Potty.