Nursing sophomore Shannon Hemschoot went for a run this weekend, but it had more meaning for her than the average jog. Hemschoot, whose mother died of breast cancer, participated yesterday in the sixth annual Rena Rowan Ribbon 5K Run to benefit those suffering from the disease.

Lawyers had two chances to convict Irina Malinovskaya of murder - it's time to give up the case.

Laura Rugarber is a College of General Studies graduate student. Her e-mail address is rugarber@dailypennsylvanian.com.

It wasn't the offensive futility that defined the Penn women's soccer team's loss to Dartmouth yesterday. And it wasn't the injuries to the Quakers' frontline or their severely altered rotation. According to coach Darren Ambrose, Penn's 1-0 loss could be described in four simple words: "One mistake, one goal.

Not too long ago, I thought economics was about making money and getting rich. Now I know it's about using weird mathematical models to understand human behavior and perhaps try and predict what will happen, and then - says the joke- use some more of that math to explain why those predictions were wrong.

Over the weekend at the Palestra, the Penn volleyball team faced two Ivy rivals in Columbia and Cornell, but it seemed like two separate Quakers teams that came away with a dominating win and a disappointing loss. On Friday night, a bigger, stronger and more athletic Quakers team controlled the tempo against Columbia from start to finish en route to a 3-0 victory.

Before last weekend's sprint football game, senior quarterback Mike Loguidice told his team in the tunnel, "We're not letting them think they can run all over us." But the Quakers might not have been able to do too much about it. Army wore down Penn's defense, and the Quakers were unable to build up any offensive strength, as the Black Knights won 16-7.

Dan Spitzer, a mild-mannered second-year Law student, takes time to contemplate every word before he speaks. He is soft-spoken and polite.

The rules for Friday's televised debate between Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and his challenger in November's midterm election, Bob Casey, were very clear. The two candidates, however, were bent on breaking them. Ignoring moderator Ken Rice's pleas to conform to the allocated response times, Santorum and Casey repeatedly talked over one another, pointing their fingers in each other's faces as they sparred in Pittsburgh.

Iran's greatest threat to the world may be an attack straight out of a James Bond movie - electromagnetic pulses. "EMP is the threat of the future," Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) said in a campus appearance yesterday. Before a crowd of roughly 20 in Huntsman Hall, Weldon presented his thoughts on the security of Israel in a talk jointly sponsored by the Penn Israel Coalition and the College Republicans.

Newer ways of rating professors and classes are infiltrating the Ivy League, but Penn has no plans to join the world of online academic evaluation, officials say. Brown University registered earlier this month for Pickaprof.

With over a dozen signs hanging from trees on College Green and a six-foot cardboard ear of corn, 20/20 Vision's first event as a Penn organization was hard to miss. The College Green Energy Fair, sponsored by 20/20 Vision, was held to mark Earth Day's half-birthday, which falls on a week from today, on Friday.

Twin sisters Stacy and Claire Kim have been standout performers for the Penn women's cross country team all season. It was no different on Saturday, when they took two of the top three places, propelling the Quakers to a win at the Lafayette Leopard Invitational.

Ex-Wharton professor Scott Ward still has no trial date, according to the Clerk's Office at the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va. Ward, who was arrested in August for importing child pornography, has remained in custody in Virginia while awaiting a formal indictment.

Many people are unable to stop their own obesity; allowing for the release of obesity pills could keep millions healthy.

Two Penn students charged with assaulting a University senior with a beer bottle could face years in jail and hefty fines if convicted, according to state sentencing guidelines. College senior Bryce LeFort and Wharton senior Stephen Lande are facing charges of aggravated assault over an incident in which LeFort allegedly broke a glass beer bottle over the head of College senior Andrew Scharf, ripping off a portion of his ear.

It was mid-summer, the church looked gorgeous, and family and friends dotted the premises. But as Shannon Barbour stood at the altar next to her husband-to-be, she started "zoning out." While the priest spoke, Barbour turned her attention to the pretty murals adorning the church walls.