Amira Fawcett is an Engineering sophomore from Houston, Texas. Her e-mail address is fawcett@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Competitive eating is not for those with light appetites. But the appetites were not light last night for the four students, who decided to challenge their stomachs - and each other - in the First Annual "Penn Wing Off" held at Hill College House. The contest, which began at 9 p.

When a business book published by Wharton hits the shelves next year, one of the authors may be Donald Trump. And another author may be your little brother. Partly devised by two Wharton staff members, the book is titled We Are Smarter Than Me and will be a collaborative effort written using a wiki style - meaning anyone can edit or contribute to it.

As Fortune 500 companies continue to diversify their offices with different types of top-tier students, candidates with disabilities may prove to be the next target audience. Last week, PepsiCo - the parent company of Pepsi, Frito-Lay and Tropicana - visited the University specifically to recruit students with disabilities, both physical and mental, for employment positions.

After an eight-month fight for his life, Barbaro's race is over. The Kentucky Derby-winning thoroughbred was euthanized yesterday morning after the onset of complications relating to his most recent procedure. Over the weekend, Barbaro's right hind foot was placed in an "external skeletal fixation device in order to provide the foot a chance to heal," Dean Richardson, Chief of Surgery at the Penn School of Veterinary Medicine's New Bolton Center, said in a press release.

At Penn, the disciplinary process isn't always straightforward with multiple steps, varying degrees of sanctions and numerous opportunities for appeals.

With Penn students in the thick of job hunting, many wonder how to explain one bad semester's GPA or incriminating Facebook.com photos. Career Services counselor Peggy Curchack held an informational workshop - with the fitting title, "When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade" - yesterday to discuss issues students wish they could avoid during job interviews.

Although it took nearly 20 minutes of basketball for Saint Joseph's to suck the drama out of its 84-74 win over Penn on Saturday, three momentum-changing plays can really tell the whole story. The Quakers had closed to within five at 54-49 around the midway point of the half, and Ahmad Nivins threw up one of just three misses of the day.

It's a Thursday night, and Engineering sophomore Peter Na is planning to hang out with his friends. But Na isn't putting on a Lacoste shirt and heading to MarBar or Smoke's - he's starting up a voice-chat program and entering the world of Azeroth. This scenario was plausible until last August, when Na would log over 40 hours a week playing World of Warcraft, a massively multi-player online role-playing game (MMORPG), created by Blizzard Entertainment and set in a fantasy world.

Aside from the odd Ivy Leaguer drafted into the NFL, the Ancient Eight usually garners little national attention when it comes to big-market athletics. It is, after all, a conference ineligible for postseason play in football (even in Division I-AA), and one that never sends more than its single guaranteed team to the NCAA Tournament in basketball.

Women earn well over half of all bachelor's degrees every year, and one researcher is attempting to find out why. Yesterday afternoon, before an audience of 40 people in the McNeil building, Claudia Buchmann discussed her recent paper - published in the American Sociological Review - in which she analyzes the resources and incentives that have put women in a favorable educational position.

Ivy League basketball players ought to relax over the next few days, because this upcoming weekend marks the beginning of the trademark back-to-backs that run until season's end. But this past weekend the Ancient Eight was fairly busy, with seven of eight squads in action on Saturday alone.

Soon, the Spanish flavor of downtown Philadelphia may be heading west. A new restaurant headed by Jose Garces - executive chef of Center City's Amada and El Vez - will be coming to the Hub at 40th and Chestnut streets. The restaurant, with 8,400 square feet on the Hub's first and second floors, will be the largest of Garces's three restaurants, though all other details of the project - including its planned opening date, name, theme and menu - will not be determined until the summer.

Despite finishing 18-6 overall and capturing a share of the Ivy League title in 2006, this squad remains hungry for more.

As one of only two states to provide legislators with cars, Pa.'s current gas-guzzling fleet sets a bad example.

Daniel Schwartz is a College freshman from Decatur, Ga. His e-mail address is schwarm@sas.upenn.edu.

The Undergraduate Assembly passed a proposal last night urging the advising office to improve the quality of academic advising. The proposal recommended several measures, including more interaction between students and their advisors and the implementation of a feedback mechanism in the form of a mid-year and end-of-year survey for first-year students to fill out about their advisors.