The Halloween snapshot that's been plaguing Penn President Amy Gutmann is even the talk of the White House. Well, some reporters are trying to make it that way. White House spokesman Tony Snow deflected questions about the now-infamous photograph at a press conference yesterday, a White House transcript shows.

The men's basketball team tips off its season in upstate N.Y. in 3-game tournament.

Wrongly associated To the Editor: I've followed with increasing distress your coverage of the Halloween party photographs with your president, Amy Gutmann ("Critics demand Gutmann atone," DP, 11/9/06). My distress has nothing to do with the photographs, offensive though they are, but rather with the continuing suggestion and innuendo that President Gutmann is sympathetic to terrorism or to Muslim extremism.

All-Ivy first team ? Ibrahim Jaaber, guard, PENN 2005-06: 18.2 ppg, 3.4 rpg, 3.3 spg ? Keenan Jeppesen, guard, Brown 2005-06: 11.1 ppg, 5.0 rpg, 1.89 spg ? Mark Zoller, forward, PENN 2005-06: 12.7 ppg, 7.3 rpg, .488 FG pct. ? Noah Savage, forward, Princeton 2004-2005-06: 10.

It might have seemed like early admissions was toast after the University of Virginia, a public school, followed Harvard and Princeton in abolishing the practice this fall.

When Penn alumnus Marco Lentini first thought of developing a health-conscious cafe near campus, he says people thought he was crazy. "Philadelphia had just been ranked the fattest city in the world," Lentini said. "But it takes leadership to transcend boundaries and come up with new ideas.

Coming out of Philadelphia's Simon Gratz High School last year, Malik Alvin had an important decision to make. With Temple and La Salle recruiting him, the basketball star definitely had the opportunity to play close to home. A look at some prominent alumni of the Nicetown school might have shown that it was a no-lose situation.

Dave Anderson is a College senior from Denver. His e-mail address is anderson@dailypennsylvanian.com.

By Sebastien Angel The Daily Pennsylvanian Syracuse, N.Y. -- With about four minutes to play and Penn and UTEP tied at 60, Ibrahim Jaaber collected his fifth foul. So when the Quakers needed a basket down one with under a minute to play, the burden fell to sophomore Aron Cohen.

Best-selling author Jonathan Safran Foer doesn't particularly enjoy the process of writing. "I don't love writing. I just don't," he said. "Writing is a little like pulling a tooth - out of your penis." Foer, author of Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, put in double-duty last night, attending a dinner organized by Fisher-Hassenfeld College House before making an appearance at the Penn Bookstore.

Flip through the men's basketball team's media guide or stop by a practice, and there are a few things that aren't hard to pick out.

For the first time in a month, the Quakers football team played a game that ended in regulation. And also for the first time in a month, Penn won. On Senior Day at Franklin Field, the Quakers defeated No. 17 Harvard, 22-13, ending a three-game losing streak.

Penn wrestling won't ease its way into the season - instead, it will jump in against four top-20 teams. The Quakers travel to East Lansing, Mich., this weekend for the Michigan State Open and the start of a promising season. The steep competition - including No.

Few people complain at constant Jew-bashing in 'Borat,' yet Saad Saadi's Halloween costume draws fiery criticism.

Sometimes, apologizing just doesn't seem to be enough. A vocal group of alumni and academics continues to voice outrage at Penn President Amy Gutmann for posing in a picture with a student dressed as a suicide bomber.

An anonymous donor has posed a challenge to a scholarship program for local high-school students: Raise $2 million, and receive $1 million more. Officials from the program are rising to the occasion. As the grant was announced at the Philadelphia Education Fund's second annual awards night last month, "there was a great deal of excitement . but a belief that we would raise the funds to reach the challenge," Philadelphia Scholars Director Carole Boughter said.

In 2003, a heralded Syracuse freshman led the team in scoring and rebounding and carried the Orange to a national championship. Four years later, Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim is hoping to get from Paul Harris a fraction of what he saw from Carmelo Anthony.