What do the Three Musketeers and a mid-life semi-crisis have to do with each other? If you're asking Penn fencers Ron Berkowsky and Abby Emerson they provide the impetus to take up fencing. "When I was eight years old, I saw the movie The Three Musketeers and just fell in love with it," said Berkowsky, a junior foilist.

A newly elected Democratic majority in Congress could spell changes for college affordability, experts say.

These Quakers are no strangers to overcoming adversity. After losing captain Katelyn Sherry to a serious foot injury, the 2005-2006 Penn fencers bounced back to finish with a 10-5 record and a ninth-place finish in the NCAA Championships. This season, the Quakers again find themselves with their backs against the wall.

Campus Copy remembers the owner of the most venerable business at Penn.

University of Delaware President David Roselle may have made close to $1 million last year, but that alone may not be enough to convince Wharton School Dean Patrick Harker to be Roselle's successor.

This weekend the Penn men and women's swimming teams will see a break from their normal Ivy League or northeast corridor rivals when they compete in the Kenyon Invitational in Gambier, Ohio, today through Saturday.

Head coach Dave Micahnik of the men's fencing team was fixing a sabre at practice this week. As he used a wrench to curve the blade, he turned and said, "It gives balance." Balance is just the word to describe this year's team. The Quakers have a mix of good young talent and with a host of experienced upperclassmen.

It's not quite the cure to breast cancer, but Penn researchers may be getting closer to a vaccine to fight the disease. A Penn research team has tested a new vaccine - which is designed for patients with early-stage breast cancer - in a pilot study, and those involved say it was unusually successful.

1Of 2,562 College graduates from the classes of 1986 and 1987 surveyed, the number of males who list themselves as "stay-at-home dads." About 300 women from the class now stay home to raise children.Source: Career Services College Alumni Survey

New program will better round out Penn's well-funded program offerings

As Penn floundered, Delaware fortified its position in the most recent women's basketball rankings last night, as the Blue Hens left the Palestra with a decisive 73-49 victory.

Tuesday night, Dartmouth was beaten senseless by Kansas, 83-32. And that humiliation was just one of 26 non-conference losses from Ivy League men's basketball teams so far this season. This complete lack of competitiveness against non-Ivy opponents is not only embarrassing, but presents a distinct challenge for the eventual champion when it comes to tournament seeding.

Avery Lawrence is a College junior from Charlottesville, Va. His e-mail address is lawrence@dailypennsylvanian.com.

This afternoon, students can put their names down to potentially save lives. The National Marrow Donor Program will hold the second of two on-campus drives from 1 to 4 p.m. in Biomedical Research Building I. The program is an effort to get community members to volunteer their information for the national registry, which links donors to cancer patients in need of bone marrow transplants.

Brennan Votel's play in his first few games this year raised a question for coach Glen Miller: What if Votel was not the big man of the future for Penn?

These Quakers are no strangers to overcoming adversity. After losing captain Katelyn Sherry to a serious foot injury, the 2005-2006 Penn fencers bounced back to finish with a 10-5 record and a ninth-place finish in the NCAA Championships. This season, the Quakers again find themselves with their backs against the wall.

A string of child-abuse cases have come to light in Philadelphia over the past few weeks, and Carol Spigner has a chance do something about the problem. Spigner, a professor at Penn's School of Social Policy and Practice, was appointed co-chair of Mayor John Street's recently announced Child Welfare Advisory Panel for Philadelphia.