The last time Penn visited Cambridge, Katarina Lackner didn't need to read the scouting reports to understand her defensive assignment. She was told to match up against Harvard senior Christiana Lackner, her older sister who is also a forward on the basketball team.

Last night, North Carolina and Duke started a new chapter in their age-old rivalry, with the visiting Tar Heels edging the Blue Devils at Cameron Indoor Stadium 79-73.

"A great American city is literally fighting for survival." And Marc Morial, the former Mayor of New Orleans, is urging Penn students to help rebuild the city in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The 1980 College alumna asked students how they "wanted to be counted," challenging their participation in community outreach.

Federal cuts in medical research funds will hurt Penn faculty engaged in potentially life-saving work.

He calls it Campusdock, but potential users might begin to refer to it as "Greg's List." Last month, Wharton junior Greg Morillo started Campusdock.com, a site that students can use to do everything from selling books and furniture to finding job and house listings.

VILLANOVA, Pa. After his team's clinic on how not to play basketball in Tuesday's loss to Villanova, Saint Joseph's coach Phil Martelli took the stand and entered his plea for the most severe charges. For the murder of the 116-year-old game of basketball: guilty as charged.

The preliminary hearing for the Troy Brown, the "screwdriver bandit," was postponed yesterday following the arrest of his attorney. Larry Charles, Brown's lawyer, was found naked with his 14-year-old goddaughter on Jan. 15 in the Philadelphia Criminal Justice Center in Center City and charged with statutory sexual assault, Philadelphia Police Department officials said.

As the replacement for Brian Cusworth, Harvard junior Brad Unger has a large role to fill. Literally. When the 7-foot Cusworth left the team a week and a half ago when his eligibility expired, he was leading the team in points and rebounds with 17.4 and 9.

For 800 unlucky students on Jan. 27, the Medical College Admissions Test proved a test of nerves rather than a test of knowledge. A testing error in the most recent MCAT examination - which was also the first computerized version of the exam - left test-takers confused and has students now concerned about the validity of the new system.

Sometimes, being number one isn't all it's cracked up to be. Wharton Business School's MBA program was ranked best in the world for the seventh year in a row by the London-based Financial Times. But despite retaining the premiere spot, Wharton students, alumni and faculty say that they are unconcerned with the school's rank in this, or any, publication.

Penn's overall "B" grade on its environmental report card downplays its low scores in a variety of other categories.

7New Pennsylvania sales-tax percent proposed by Governor Ed Rendell; it is currently 6 percent. Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer

Ask any collegiate wrestler what the toughest thing about his sport is, and he'll probably tell you it's making weight. Between crash dieting, workouts and time on the scale, staying under that golden number is enough to keep the most dedicated grappler up at night.

Chemistry professor Alan MacDiarmid, one of three recipients of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, died yesterday afternoon. He was 79. MacDiarmid had been suffering from Myelodysplastic Syndrome, a disease that affects the bone marrow and blood, for the past four years.

From Rosie the Maid to the Terminator, general interest in robots is nothing new. Studying them, however, has been less common - until now. Come fall semester, the School of Engineering and Applied Science will begin offering a master's program in robotics - the study of building, instrumenting and programming robots.

Penn failed to meet its goal of announcing an e-mail provider the end of Jan.

What could make a man like Simon Kirke - the famous drummer for the bands Free and Bad Company - stop a tour of the Northeast to pay Penn basketball a visit? None other than one of the Palestra's institutions - the Penn Band. The drummer-turned-music-insructor will perform Free's 1970 hit "All Right Now" along with the Penn Band when the Quakers takee on Harvard this Saturday, the Athletic Department announced this week.