Revenge is a dish best served in cold pool water, as the Penn women's swim team found out Friday. The Quakers avenged last year's five-point loss to chief rival Columbia with a 187.5-112.5 victory in their home opener at Sheerr Pool. Last year's meet came down to the final event, the 200-yard freestyle relay, with Columbia winning by three-hundreths of a second.

With a Gospel choir in full force and surrounded by legions of supporters chanting his name, state Rep. Dwight Evans finally declared his mayoral candidacy last night. Evans, who had long been consided a contender in this year's Philadelphia mayoral race, officially announced his intentions to run before the largest crowd of any candidacy announcement thus far.

Most recent failure of SAS Webmail is the last straw - the University must make the switch now.

Because researchers often receive public dollars and results can affect public policy, falsifying data is a very serious crime.

Before Dirk Nowitzki took the NBA by storm, basketball was barely on Germany's radar screen. Fortunately for the Fordham hoops team, one young German with American roots wasn't content with just playing soccer.

With flailing arms and short quick jabs, avid gamers are embracing Nintendo's newest video-game console. Although the Wii, released Nov. 19, is trailing behind market-leader Sony's Playstation 3 in terms of sales, it has still been highly sought after by Penn students.

At 11:50 yesterday morning, Communication professor Joseph Turow's Mass Media and Society class broke into applause. Such claps - in this case, marking the last Mass Media and Society class of the semester - are often a way for students to show appreciation to their professors.

School of Arts and Sciences Webmail crashed again yesterday at about 6:30 p.m. The server was down for 18 hours on Wednesday and has had several related problems throughout the semester. SAS is currently in the midst of finding a replacement server - either Microsoft or Google - but officials have yet to announce which they will choose.

Week in photos for week of December 4, 2006

Monica Naltner keeps on getting better. For the third time this season, Naltner set a new scoring high. Last night, she scored 37 points - 30 in the second half - to propel the Quakers to a comeback victory over Lafayette, 78-74. The win snapped a three-game losing streak for Penn (3-3), while Lafayette (2-6) lost its fifth in a row.

24Philadelphia police facilities found in states of physical decay by the City Controller's office.Source: Philadelphia Inquirer

As students begin planning for Christmas trees and menorahs, the Penn community praised a different winter holiday celebration yesterday. "Thank you for the future," Rev. Charles Howard, of Penn's Office of the Chaplain, said. "Thank you for Kwanzaa." Makuu, Penn's Black Cultural Center, hosted its 14th annual Kwanzaa ceremony in the Bodek Lounge, attended by more than 75 students, staff and community members.

Yesterday, the DP ran an editorial about Amy Gutmann being named on Harvard's list of potential candidates for its presidency.

When 1996 Penn alumnus Peter Kuperman decided to throw financial support at Penn, he knew exactly how to gauge support for his philanthropic impulse. Facebook.com.

At a construction site, two workers are laying bricks. When asked what they were doing, one man answered, "Laying bricks," while the other optimistically remarked, "Building a cathedral." Richard Carrion used this anecdote to inspire audience members at his lecture last night to work diligently toward their goals and to inspire others with their passion.

No quiero Taco Bell - not with E. coli, at least. All 15 city Taco Bells voluntarily closed Wednesday after an E. coli breakout near Philadelphia. It is unknown when the local eateries will resume business. The closings included the Taco Bell located in Penn's Food Court at 34th and Walnut streets.