Instead of stressing over a few extra holiday pounds, grab your sweats and head over to the blistering Pottruck wrestling room, where wrestlers can drop 10 pounds in a single two-hour practice.

University should finally cancel classes on the day before Thanksgiving.

Sure, you might down shots on New Year's Eve - but Thanksgiving? Strange, but true: For bars and clubs across Philadelphia, Thanksgiving Eve is one of the most hopping partying opportunities of the year, with people reuniting with old friends and family in their hometowns.

Even though it is not a member of the Philadelphia Big 5, Drexel and Penn played a classic Big 5-style game last night at the Palestra.

The Division of Public Safety - which is charged with protecting Penn students, staff and the local community - is making you less safe. Officers are making the same patrols and staff levels are not being reduced, but the department has suddenly decided it will withhold certain crime information.

No Penn student won a Rhodes scholarship this year, and the loss may be part of a larger decline of the Ivy League monopoly on major international awards. While Penn succeeded in sending 4 students -- out of a total of 32 Penn applicants - to the finals of the U.

Much of the focus during Penn's meet against La Salle last night was on one race, a showdown between each team's top swimmer - and former club teammates, to boot - in the 200-yard freestyle. La Salle's Sean Connors-McBride edged out Penn junior Pat Gallagher by .

University President Amy Gutmann's $150,000 gift for financial aid may seem modest compared to the millions trustees donate, but seasoned fundraisers say it will likely inspire others to give - just like Gutmann wanted.

Four college-age women have been robbed at the point of a screwdriver near campus in the past two weeks, prompting public safety officials to issue a warning to students. The first such robbery occurred Nov. 9, officials say. DPS issued a crime alert about the cases yesterday, asking students to come forward with any information they have.

Study-abroad participation at Penn was the seventh highest among American colleges last year, according to a report released last week. The University jumped five spots - from No. 12 to No. 7 - in the annual study-abroad participation ranking by the Institute for International Education, which promotes educational ties between the United States and foreign countries.

Penn researchers have established that while men are subjected to more traumatic events, women are more likely to be diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. David Tolin of the Institute of Living and Psychiatry professor Edna Foa reviewed 290 studies conducted between 1980 and 2005 to determine whether men or women were more likely to experience potentially traumatic events and post-traumatic stress disorder.

When asked if he had heard that some had picked his team as the underdog, Ibrahim Jaaber chuckled, saying, "We were what? That's the first time I've heard about it." And, after seeing what playing in the Palestra does to the Dragons year after year, he had no reason to listen to the critics this time.

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.