Back in 1982, my mom was studying for her teaching certificate when she met my dad in an English class. He mustered the courage to talk to her one day over verb conjugations, and they began dating. It was love. In 2006, the game hasn't changed too much. A significant proportion of women still find their husbands while they're attending school.

An unusually high number of Advanced Placement exams were reported missing this summer after high school students took the exams in May. Tom Ewing, a spokesman for the Educational Testing Service, which scores the exams, said that roughly 1,500 exams or portions of exams remain missing and unscored.

U.S. News & World Report may offer the most-recognized academic rankings for universities, but another group offers a list with a twist- an evaluation of schools that is catered to the student-athlete. Penn is not commonly thought of as an athletic powerhouse, but it ranked 11th in the most recent edition.

While Benjamin Netanyahu says technology is not necessarily the key to economic growth, modern gadgetry certainly helped keep the former Israeli prime minister safe when he visited Penn yesterday.

Spending a month working in a Tanzanian hospital seems like an unlikely summer vacation for most students. College junior Rebecca Davis begs to differ. A nearly 20-hour trek to Tanzania, via Amsterdam, led Davis to a tiny village outside the city of Arusha, where she spent a month working in a local hospital.

Sometimes, child sex charges are not enough to fire a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. University policy allows for the firing of professors implicated in serious crimes, but Penn officials say charges previously brought against ex-Wharton professor Scott Ward Ward were not significant enough to dismiss him.

There are 25 freshmen on the Penn football roster. And if the last couple of years are any indication, odds are that only seven will see action in 2006. In a school where freshmen in other sports are often immediate contributors, football players have not had the same impact.

In one of the more defining moments of my Penn life under Amy Gutmann's reign, 34th Street asked the University president if she believes art has to be beautiful. "No," she answered flatly, definitively. Next question. The notion of what art truly is and what it looks like is a topic that connoisseurs and dilettantes debate with equal tenacity - what qualities make something art? What makes a Jackson Pollack "art" over, say, a larger-than-life rendering of a fictitious Philadelphia icon? The Philadelphia Museum of Art has wondered that recently, as it fought to preserve its artistic hegemony over a city proposal to set an eight-foot-six-inch bronze Rocky Balboa statue at its steps.

Going into last night's game against Saint Joseph's, the Penn field hockey team has been shut out in both of its matches.

You may soon hear "Hallelujah" all over campus: Rufus Wainwright is coming to Penn.

Students crowd the economics aisle of the bookstore on the first day of classes.

Just six months after her office brought the national media spotlight to Penn's campus - more specifically, to its dorm room windows - Office of Student Conduct Director Michele Goldfarb quietly resigned her post this summer.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Bail for former Wharton professor emeritus Scott Ward was set at $2 million yesterday, as prosecutors sought a tougher ruling and the defense called evidence into question.

With 10 returning players, eight new freshmen and two new assistant coaches, this volleyball season seems to be full of promise. But the team will have to turn things around; Penn went 10-16 (7-7 Ivy) last season, a tough follow-up to 2004, a season in which they went 15-11.

Former Duke University anthropologist John Jackson has arrived at Penn to kick off Penn Integrates Knowledge, the University's initiative to recruit faculty members who will have appointments in multiple departments. Jackson will be teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in both the Annenberg School for Communication and the School of Arts and Sciences, where he will share his research on issues of race, religion, class and the impact of the media in contemporary America.

The number of burglaries and sex offenses during New Student Orientation rose this year, while police reported a precipitous drop in the number of thefts. Overall, crime during NSO was down from the same period last year, but officials from Penn's Division of Public Safety say the drop is insignificant.