Forget standardized test scores and alumni giving rates: In a recent survey by the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, the only number that mattered to Penn's ranking was 8.8.

Slavery cartoon To the Editor: A recent cartoon, drawn by artist Abdi Farah, ("Opinion Art," DP, 11/6/06) depicts Uncle Sam and a college professor, accompanied by a chained African American slave, glaring at Amy Gutmann. Uncle Sam points and says, "We knew the always progressive Penn would eventually support terrorism!" In the forefront, Amy Gutmann stands confidently, while a benevolent Ben Franklin comes to her defense.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The departure of Fran Dunphy and the hiring of Glen Miller presented two distinct problems for Penn's bench players.

Late-night Facebook perusing may soon be more than a procrastination device - it might be a legitimate homework assignment.

In the penultimate week of play, only three teams in the Ivy League had anything to play for.

How it's done Today a parking lot; tomorrow a nanotechnology research building that could cost upwards of $80 million. That, in a nutshell, is the present and future of a space near 33rd and Walnut streets. The lot, which sits next to the Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter, is slated to hold the new facility as part of Penn's eastward expansion.

When Wharton junior Samir Sheth isn't in Finance meetings, he's performing before thousands of passionate fans in India.

Big Ten basketball fans beware - Randy Wittman is back. No, not the Randy Wittman who won a national championship with Indiana in 1981 and was the Big Ten Player of the Year two years later - his son, Randy Scott Wittman, a freshman guard at Cornell.

The stucco wall on the west side of the Kappa Sigma fraternity house is, to be blunt, ugly.

Shunning today's technology will cost you.

Before Cornell clinched its third straight Ivy League championship, it battled through a tough challenge from Penn. Following the 3-1 loss to the Big Red, the Quakers won their second match of the New York road trip on Saturday by defeating last-place Columbia, 3-0.

Many departmental Web sites can't follow simple rules of consistency or haven't been updated in years.

Students turned out to vote in very large numbers this past election.

HUP first in Phila. to adopt imaging system The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania has become the city's first hospital to use a new type of imaging technology that can provide detailed, 3-D images of patients' hearts. Because the computing tomography technology is faster, it can take a more accurate picture of the heart - which is constantly in motion.

After alleging that he was beaten and branded during fraternity hazing activities last fall, College senior E. Martyn Griffen will face the people he is accusing in court a week from today. Griffen said two brothers of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, College senior Kelechi Okereke and Education graduate student Lionel Anderson-Perez, lacerated him with a rubber band and severely beat his legs during pledging.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The Quakers opened their season in a three-game tournament at Syracuse, N.Y. this weekend, and while a win over Big East powerhouse Syracuse might have been a bit much to ask for, the Quakers were undoubtably hoping for a bit better than 1-2.

The vast majority of American adults want kids to learn about safe-sex practices - and abstinence, according to a recent report from Penn's Annenberg National Health Communication Survey. In an article in the November issue of the journal Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, researchers outlined survey results from over 1,000 people.