An estimated 10 million Americans under the age of 30 cast their votes in Tuesday's mid-term elections, 2 million more than in 2002. High voting rates on Penn's campus reflected this trend. According to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, which studies voting among the young and reported these preliminary data, youth voting increased by 4 percentage points from the previous mid-term election.

Few students would want to go back to eating lunch at their elementary-school cafeterias. But that is exactly what Jan Poppendieck does. A professor of sociology at Hunter College, a part of the City University of New York, Poppendieck studies poverty, hunger and food assistance in the United States.

On Nov. 24, 2002, Penn beat Iowa State, 84-77 in the Midwest-dominated Las Vegas Invitational (the other two teams were Illinois and Eastern Illinois). That was the last time the Quakers played three games in three days - winning two - until this weekend, when the Quakers will take on Texas-El-Paso, Saint Francis (N.

After struggling against the zone last year, Penn faces a coach who has made a living with the 2-3

Some semblance of sanity finally returned to the Tracy McIntosh trial this week. The former Neurology professor and convicted sex offender had - up until this point - gotten away with his crimes with little more than a slap on the wrist. After promising to show the niece of his friend around the Penn area, McIntosh took the 23-year-old to various local bars and then back to his office, where he allegedly raped her.

Lack of cash will no longer be a problem for students looking to hail a cab.

High-profile basketball recruiting prospect Josh Owens has chosen to play his college ball at Stanford, rather than at Penn or Vanderbilt, the other two teams on his list. According to a source close to the situation, the Austell, Ga., native is expected to sign a national letter of intent to play for the Cardinal.

Former Penn football coach John Stiegman died of cancer in his home in Lawrenceville, N.J., on Oct. 31, at the age of 83. The Buffalo, N.Y., native spent time as a head coach at Rutgers and at Iowa Wesleyan, as well as Penn, during a coaching career that spanned three decades between the 1940s and the 1970s.

After a video showed horrific animal-testing experiments 20 years ago, Penn and others have cleaned up their acts.

Tenure-track professorships are among the most coveted jobs in academia, but that's not stopping a growing number of women from turning them down. At Harvard University, the percentage of women who accepted tenure-track positions during the 2005-06 academic year dropped drastically, according to a recently released Harvard report.

A documentary alleging that the American media is biased in favor of Israel sparked debate in Logan Hall last night. A discussion panel on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was held before an audience of about 10 by the Muslim Students Association. Moderator Arsalan Iftikhar, the legal director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, has appeared on talk shows on numerous news channels, including CNN, the BBC and Fox News.

Ex-Wharton professor Scott Ward was formally indicted on child-pornography charges in an Alexandria, Va., federal court yesterday. The indictment alleged that Ward "produced, imported and possessed visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct

During New Student Orientation, Kunal Kandimalla wanted to party. But he said he didn't know his way around the frat scene, and nobody bothered advertising their parties in his dorm, Kings Couty/English House. So Kandimalla made friends in the Quadrangle, and made them fast.

n Women's Rugby. The team emerged victorious during the Eastern Pennsylvania Rugby Union championship weekend. Defeating Bloomsburg University, Penn finished on top in the White Division and undefeated for the season. At the semifinal game on Saturday, Penn dominated Saint Joseph's for a final score of 29-5.

The mood among the Penn Democrats only improved last night as time passed. The Penn College Republicans were somewhat more sour. The Democrats met last night at Huntsman Hall to watch the election returns roll in. The mood the was initially cautious and subdued, but people became more jubilant as reports of wins started to arrive.

Former Penn professor Tracy McIntosh may be headed to prison after all. The Pennsylvania Superior Court ordered on Monday that McIntosh be resentenced for his sexual-assault conviction.. The decision to resentence was in response to an appeal by the district attorney's office that McIntosh's sentence had been excessively lenient.

Penn's ZBT fraternity has long had a history of good and bad; the two have finally split up permanently.