Over the past three years, the Psychiatry department received nearly $217 million to study disorders from substance abuse to schizophrenia. Ironically, many of the employees doing the legwork have limited access to quality mental-health care themselves. To better serve the mental health demands of the student population, the University recently increased staffing at its Counseling and Psychological Services office by 25 percent.

Real violations To the Editor: I was walking to campus and I happened to see one of those sticky mouse traps that a Penn kid had let lay by his trashcan. I wouldn't have thought twice about it, but the mouse was moving. It had its face ripped off and was in extreme pain, and some Penn student had left it there to die a very slow death (it takes them days to starve, and they're known to chew through their feet to try to escape).

Homecoming games are usually scheduled to set the home team up for an easy win. The matchup is picked months in advance to ensure that the larger-than-average crowd leaves the game satisfied. But the men's soccer team will not be facing any pushovers tomorrow.

Residents of a new building just off-campus waited weeks to get in - and now some say the rooms still aren't ready for them. Certain floors in the retail and residential building at 40th and Chestnut Streets were scheduled to open for residents two months ago, but construction was delayed due to shipping problems with materials.

Yesterday, we commended the University for setting up an office - in Washington - to lobby the federal government for funds. However, we missed one additional part of the story: Penn is also setting up an office in Harrisburg, the state capital, to lobby the commonwealth for funding and attention to higher-education issues.

Two students charged with aggravated assault against another student will soon face hearings in Philadelphia's lower courts.

If you want to save money, you're going to have to give up your personal information to companies, according to one Penn professor. Joseph Turow, a Communication professor and author of Niche Envy: Marketing Discrimination in the Digital Age, spoke to an audience of about 20 at the Penn Bookstore on Wednesday.

E-mails that clutter your inbox from the dozens of listservs you're on may be a thing of the past. Clubs may soon be able to send you their announcements straight to your cell phone. The Undergraduate Assembly unveiled a plan earlier this month to introduce a service called Mobile Campus to Penn by the end of next semester.

Comparative literature students may find themselves in familiar territory if they take the LSAT in June. Effective June 2007, the LSAT - an exam students take prior to applying to law school - will add a comparative reading section as one of the four sets of reading comprehension on the test.

Dave Anderson is a College senior from Denver. His e-mail address is anderson@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Over the weekend, the Penn volleyball team got a reality check at the hands of Yale and Brown and limped home with two disappointing road losses. Eager to prove themselves in the strong Ivy League, the young Quakers lost 3-0 to the Elis and 3-2 to the Bears.

By utilizing professional writing and editing services, students are just furthering their need to develop basic writing skills.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Junior Keith Vereb played an hour and a half of soccer on Saturday, but he really only needed three minutes. They came at the opening of Penn's must-win match at Yale, when the Quakers came out firing and earned a free kick from upwards of 30 yards out.

Hundreds of Penn basketball fans gather at World Cafe Live last night after word went out around 9:15 p.m. that the venue would be hosting this year's Line. The tradition will culminate next Saturday with a collective trip to the Penn-Princeton football game.

The big play eluded the Quakers in the second half; and so did the win. "There were plays to be made, [plays] that were there," Walker said.

Last weekend, the Penn women's rowing team proved it could compete against the best in the world. The Quakers placed 10th out of 57 teams at the collegiate eight event at the Head of the Charles in Boston, Mass., the largest head race in the world. The team also finished 17th out of 45 in the championship eights competition.

There's a call in every election to extract the money from politics. Soft money contributions have been curbed, but it's hard to stop a billionaire from donating his personal fortune to a cause.