Amira Fawcett is a College sophomore from Houston. Her e-mail address is fawcett@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Because fans can't grab a bite to eat, attendance at Penn soccer and baseball games lags behind other schools.

Irene Queju was trying to make sense of the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Stan when duty called. Among the ruins of her village in Guatemala, Queju, who is a doctor, noticed a woman going into labor and was able to deliver the child. The mother "named him Moses because that means 'saved by the water,'" Queju said.

Provost Ron Daniels may have just completed his first year at Penn, but his projects reach as far away as Botswana. The initiative in the landlocked south African nation was part of what Daniels hopes will become a much larger presence for the University on the international stage.

Negative campaigning is rampant in U.S. politics, and Joe Klein blames pollsters and consultants. "The consultant class believes the essence of politics is taking a two-by-four and whacking your opponent with it," he said. Klein, a columnist for Time magazine and the formerly anonymous author of the novel Primary Colors, came to Penn yesterday to talk to professor John DiIulio's American politics class about his new book, Politics Lost, which laments the rise of the consultant-pollster complex.

Two decades ago, a Penn report showed widespread assault, but today, students still fear coming forward.

For Wangari Maathai, trees and peace go hand in hand, the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner told an audience that filled Irvine Auditorium Monday night. "Peace is not an abstract concept," Maathai said. "It is impossible to enjoy peace in a world where limited resources on our planet are not managed responsibly and shared equitably.

Smack in the middle of midterms and job recruitment season, School of Arts and Sciences Webmail crashed yesterday. Webmail went down in the late afternoon and appeared to have come back online in the early morning hours today. Officials have not yet disclosed the problem that led to the downtime.

Hold that cab fare - fine dining for the next generation of Penn students is about to move a whole lot closer to campus.

Although the field may belong to the Eagles, the Quakers today will find themselves descending into a lion's den.

As the cliche goes, football games are won and lost in the trenches. Just ask Columbia coach Norries Wilson, who attributed his team's loss in part to "not [being] strong enough physically." Wilson specifically credited junior nose tackle Naheem Harris for thwarting the Lions' running game during Penn's 16-0 win on Saturday.

With less than three weeks to go, Election Day is fast approaching, and it's not too early to get prepared. Between selecting a governor, a senator, a congressman and a state representative, there are a lot of choices to make, all of which should merit careful thought and decision.

At Saint Joseph's University, diehard basketball fans like to say that "the Hawk will never die." For one year though, the Hawk will be forced to flap its wings outside of Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse - and quite possibly in the Palestra. The 3,200-seat arena is slated to be part of a $25 million athletic facilities project that St.

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

When Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) and his Democratic challenger Bob Casey Jr. met last week, viewers saw a lot of mud slung.

Mariangela Bernardi is in her office at the David Rittenhouse Laboratory when a student enters, complaining about the scoring of a question on a test for a class not taught by Bernardi. She looks at the question and briefly sketches out an answer, explaining which variables and which equations are necessary to solve it.

The neighborhood still faces problems with vagrancy, but something good is happening in Cedar Park, according to Cedar Park Neighbors president, Carol Walker. About 45 residents of University City's Cedar Park neighborhood braved the rain to attend the meeting in the Calvary Community Center at 48th Street and Baltimore Avenue, which focused on discussing ongoing and potential improvements to the area, especially on Baltimore between 45th and 50th streets.