What does a team do against a severely overmatched opponent? If that team is Penn men's squash, it pushes down on the gas pedal just as hard as ever. This Saturday, the No. 4 Quakers (6-0) will head to nearby Lancaster, Pa. to face No. 17 Franklin & Marshall (6-6).

By Molin Zhong Staff Writer molin@sas.upenn.edu Bend, but don't break. It's a regularly used cliche, but in this case it also describes the men's and women's fencing teams. Coming into the Philadelphia Invitational Multi-Meet against Rutgers, Johns Hopkins, and Vassar, tomorrow at Haverford, Pa.

The end of last semester left the United Minorities Council - the umbrella organization for dozens of Penn's minority groups - without a leader. On Wednesday night, however, after a two-hour election, the group finally found the person it was looking for: College sophomore Efe Johnson.

By Samuel Mondry-Cohen Staff Writer smondryc@sas.upenn.edu Men's track heads to New York on Friday for the Great Dane classic, and they could care less about winning. Because track's season rests solely on their final meet, the team is free to concentrate on other goals for the remainder of the season.

Defending clubs To the Editor: Regarding Alex Weinstein's column about Penn club sports ("No experience necessary," 1/11/07) doing a disservice to the Penn community: As the coach of club baseball when Weinstein tried out, I do not understand what he is complaining about.

37.3Million people who tuned in for the season premiere of American Idol on Tuesday.Source: The Associated Press

Good things are worth waiting for, as the expression goes. And West Philadelphia High School has been waiting for a long time. But the school finally got its wish last week, when the city's School Reform Commission declared that ground would be broken this fall on a new West Philadelphia High School campus, to be completed by the first day of school in 2009; the school has gone a century without a new building.

Gov. Edward Rendell has a new "Prescription for Pennsylvania." Before a packed audience in the School of Nursing's Fagin Hall yesterday afternoon, Rendell introduced a new health care reform program, which promises to redefine how the state addresses public health.

In the Quakers' 93-92 win over La Salle at the Tom Gola Arena last night, junior guard Darnell Harris gave Jaaber one more challenge and struck some serious fear into the healthy Penn student section.

Penn's rise to national prominence has been long and steady - but not always pretty. As the University climbed toward the top of the U.S. News and World Report's rankings in the late 1990s, a recent string of faculty misconduct cases has thrust Penn into the national spotlight in a less desirable context, the latest being the arrest of Economics professor Rafael Robb last week in connection with the death of his wife.

Coming into the season, the Penn women's swimming team had a goal: third place or bust. Having only lost to heavy favorites Harvard and Princeton and after beating another third-place challenger, Brown, the Quakers (8-3, 3-2 Ivy) have not disappointed thus far.

A convicted sex felon has been enrolled at Penn as a full-time graduate student since September, while still serving his sentence at a Bucks County prison.

M. Soccer's Cepero drafted by pro team Penn senior goalkeeper Dan Cepero was selected in the fourth round of the MLS Supplemental Draft by the New York Red Bulls. Cepero was a unanimous first-team All-Ivy selection this year, He started every game during his junior and senior years, accruing a school record 23 shutouts for his career.

Last year, Director of International Admissions Elisabeth O'Connell walked into a high school and gave her typical admissions spiel. Boasting about Penn's interdisciplinary programs and answering students' questions, it was the same information session she had done thousands of time - just this time, it was in Africa.

Coming off a third-place finish against Towson and Maryland, the Penn gymnastics team has a chance to rebound in its first Ivy League meet against Yale on Saturday. Yale senior Miki Seltzer leads the Bulldogs into Hutchinson Gym this weekend. Her team came in fourth in its last meet at Rhode Island, where she won the floor competition with a score of 9.

Lack of communication is to blame for Pottruck's unnecessarily early Saturday night hours.

Mark Zoller, Ibrahim Jaaber and Stephen Danley, Penn's senior captains, have played a combined 38 Big 5 games. The 11 players on La Salle's roster have played 48 combined - and only five players had any Big 5 experience coming into this season.