A hypothetical high school senior has a 3.9 GPA and an SAT score of 2230. She is the captain of the volleyball team, a clarinetist and an active participant in both her school yearbook and the debate team.

College media should push boundaries, but after the 'Pig Penn' incident, UTV has shown little willingness to do so.

When Bucknell's A.J. Kizekai rushed into the end zone nine minutes into the first quarter on Saturday, the Bison looked ready and able to notch their first win over Penn since 1999.

Though graduate students can join three different representative organizations, not all of them are created equal - at least in the eyes of Penn administrators.

Injury and little familiarity with college-level tennis did not stop Maria Anisimova last weekend at the National Tennis Invitational in New York, where she advanced to the finals in singles and doubles, both to be played today.

Holding classes that last for three hours degrades students' learning for the sake of convenience.

Researchers at Penn's School of Medicine have discovered a major protein related to Lou Gehrig's disease and a type of dementia.

All it took was one misplay. One loose ball near the Penn goal, one touch past diving goalkeeper Cailly Carroll and one more notch in the loss column for the women's soccer team.

The following is an excerpt of the one and only episode of 'Pig Penn,' which aired Oct. 5, 1990.

Alicia Puglionesi is a College sophomore from Havertown, Pa. Her e-mail address is puglionesi@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Some are graduate students. Some are middle-aged and balding, their college days long behind them. Others are running for political office, but their T-shirts and moptop hair appear more fit for a Grateful Dead concert than the campaign trail.

Text-messaging may have taken impersonality to the next level in America, but it is literally changing language in China, according to one scholar. Victor Mair, a professor in Penn's East Asian Languages and Civilizations program, along with his colleagues Brian Spooner and Aslam Syed, spoke yesterday afternoon to an audience of about 20 at the Penn Museum on the evolution of language, in both written and spoken forms.

The Lock Haven Lady Eagles came into Sunday soaring on a nine-game winning streak, but left Franklin Field with clipped wings. Their vaunted offense was held to just one goal on four attempts as the Penn field hockey team downed the Eagles, 2-1. Before their game against Penn (4-7, 1-2 Ivy), they had outscored their last nine opponents by a ludicrous 45-5 margin.

Voters "have to drain the swamp that is Washington, D.C.," Nancy Pelosi told a crowd in Logan Hall's Terrace Room. The Republican Congress has made a mess of everything from Iraq to education, but the Democrats can clean it up, Pelosi (D-Calif.), the U.S. House of Representatives Minority Leader, announced to students Friday morning at a rally on Penn's campus.

A price too high To the Editor: I have been attending Penn Hillel High Holiday Services for 30 years. They have been my Jewish place of worship, my linkage to organized Jewish life, through school at Penn, family religious events and many a soulful search.

There are a number of simple changes that could vastly improve quality of life for international students at Penn.

LEWISBURG, Pa. It was only the first quarter, but the Quakers already knew that a win was on the way. That's when sophomore quarterback Robert Irvin connected with wide receiver Braden Lepisto on a play-action pass for a 72-yard touchdown on the fourth drive of the game.