Walnut Street's '4021 Club' offers recovering alcoholics a place to find support - and friends.

Over 60 SAC groups are currently in the red.

Quakers women's basketball coach Pat Knapp knew that, aside from Penn or La Salle's usual offensive standouts, either squad would need another player to step up to ensure a victory. And he was exactly right - La Salle sophomore Tara Lapetina scored a career-high 20 points to help lift the Explorers to victory.

It was the last thing Dominick Mejia was expecting to hear. Just three minutes into Drexel's matchup with Penn last night, Dragons coach Bruiser Flint got in the face of his star player. "Get the ball!" he said after the 6-foot-5 swingman coughed it up on Drexel's first possession.

Affiliates of the University gave more money than all but four other groups within the education industry during the 2006 election cycle at $196,395, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Ninety-four percent of donations were to Democrats. The University of California, Harvard University and the Apollo Group were the only organizations whose members and employees gave more than Penn.

Gabe Oppenheim quizzes students to see who has the knowledge to discern Penn celebrities from national celebrities.

As wrestling coach Zeke Jones put it, the Quakers will be spending Thanksgiving "training and eating turkey" as they prepare to take on some of the nation's top teams this weekend. Coming off of a second-place finish at the Keystone Classic last Sunday, No.

Penn women's basketball coach Pat Knapp knew that defense was the key to stopping La Salle's Crista Ricketts. As it turned out, merely good defense wasn't enough, as the Explorers came away with a deserved 73-63 win over the Quakers at the Palestra. "She gets too many calls," Knapp said of the Explorers' star forward, adding that defenders need only to "breathe on her" to be called for a foul.

Professors cancel today's classes because of absences, but that's not their choice to make - we're footing the bill.

As holiday mascots go, Christmas has Santa Claus, Valentine's Day has Cupid and New Student Orientation has Troy Majnerick.

Philadelphia deserves a full-time congressman.

Nelson Pavlovsky says culture should come from the bottom up - and that intellectual property rights keep it from happening. Pavlovsky, a Swarthmore College undergraduate and founder of FreeCulture.org, gave a talk before a small number of students and faculty in the Class of 1938 Lounge in Kings Court/English House yesterday.

Glen Miller may be a newcomer to the Big 5, but the "other" bastion of Philadelphia college hoops is giving him plenty to worry about. With a 97-74 whooping of Division II Florida Gulf Coast still fresh in their minds, Miller's Quakers (2-2) tip off tonight against Drexel (2-0), a team now on the rise after showing only intermittent brilliance last year.

When you enter the Palestra and look above the east basket, you see flags representing the Big 5 schools. While Penn has created great rivalries with Villanova, Saint Joseph's, Temple and La Salle, it is the Philadelphia school without a flag that Penn should have its greatest rivalry with.

W. E. B. Du Bois, a co-founder of the NAACP, once taught classes at Penn. But until now, the University never had a chapter of its own. Having elected a board and amassed more than the 25 dues-paying members required to form a chapter, Penn's branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a civil-rights group, recently held its first public meeting.

The Quakers men's basketball team posted a solid 68-49 win over Drexel tonight at the Palestra. Strong defense on both sides led to a multutude of turnovers for each team, but the Quakers were able to pull away early in the second half, and never trailed in the game.

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