Experience is a key asset for an assistant coach in any sport, and in new women's crew coach Anne Kakela, Penn's team will learn from a recognized Pacific-10 coach and a former Olympic rower. Announced as new head coach Mike Lane's assistant yesterday, Kakela comes from Oregon State, where she was an assistant from 2003-06.

Penn students may be excited to be upgrading from Webmail, but experts say the companies battling to replace it have just as much to gain.

Philadelphia just got a major wake-up call: It was ranked the most impoverished of the nation's 10 largest cities.

College senior Nicholas Miccarelli, a native of Ridley Park, Pa., recently returned to Penn after completing a tour of duty in Iraq in which he helped train and lead the new Iraqi military forces. Prior to transferring to Penn from Temple in 2003, Miccarelli had spent nine months in Kosovo conducting peacekeeping operations.

Coming off a 12th-place finish at Nationals last year with a school-record 51 points at the tournament, the wrestling team finds itself faced with a challenging slate of matches lined up for this season. The Athletic Department released the schedule for the upcoming season, and on it the Quakers will find a mix of familiar foes and notable newcomers.

Now that the field hockey team has finally scored (Saturday against Harvard in a 2-0 win), is it a little premature and a little foolish to talk about an Ivy League championship? Perhaps not. The Quakers are 1-3 and have been outscored 7-2 on the season.

For at least the second consecutive year, Penn has been the last Ivy League school to officially publish its men's basketball schedule. But thanks to the more punctual schedule-releases of the schools that we will be playing, we already know when most of Penn's games will take place, so it's not too early to take a look at the schedule.

Don't support China To the Editor: My son recently received advertising from the University of Pennsylvania Computer Connection. It promoted Dell, Apple and IBM ThinkPad laptops. IBM recently sold its IBM ThinkPad laptop product line to a company called Lenovo.

Hate Webmail crashes? Uneven bricks on Locust Walk? Student-government leaders sure do, and they've got a host of other items on their plate as well. The Undergraduate Assembly met for the first time Sunday night, outlining new projects and announcing the new committee heads.

It is 10 a.m. on a Friday, and the scene in Penn's Office of International Programs has all the trappings of business as usual. Students and staff walk briskly to and fro, telephones ring shrilly, and the hum of jovial voices pervades the air. Amid this sea of activity, a small red sign perched on a desk attracts a few glances here and there.

Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya faces her second trial for first-degree murder starting on Thursday.

The events of Sept. 11 have made many of us immigrants question our identities and sense of belonging and shocked us into the realization that we as a nation are as vulnerable as any developing country - unprepared for the attacks and the subsequent renewal.

Harvard University officials announced today that the school will end its early-admissions option beginning with the class entering in 2008.

Rev. Beverly Dale knows what her detractors might say about her. "'She's that crazy person interested in sex and God,'" she said, mimicking her critics. But Dale - director of the Christian Association and informally known as "Rev Bev" - isn't concerned with naysayers.

As soon as sophomore midfielder Natalie Capuano's feet left the ground, it was clear that this game was going to be a little bit different.

Increasing competitiveness about the college process means that more applicants these days are eschewing the traditional SAT exam in favor of another test - the ACT. Experts says the ACT has grown in popularity over the past decade, including in areas where taking the SAT used to be an unrivaled rite of college preparation.

Poet and screenwriter Cristin Aptowicz returned to her home city of Philadelphia yesterday to commemorate the emotions and events of Sept. 11th on its five-year anniversary. After the attacks, Aptowicz said, Manhattan's Lower East Side poetry community came together to serve as a haven for those affected by the terrorist attacks.