For five years, several gold teeth lay in a Penn vault. A lock of Napoleon III's hair remains in a University safe-deposit box. And a mink coat, a pipe organ and a gas station in New York have all passed through the school's possession.

Joanne Tong is a Wharton senior from Manila, Philippines. Her e-mail address is tong@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Every day we dodge and weave past the flyer-laden students on Locust Walk. We turn down offers of cookies, parties, executive-board positions and concerts by unknown artists. Sympathy for the Locust loiterers might impel us to grab a few leaflets before dropping them into the next trash can along the way.

Three professors from the Penn School of Medicine were elected this week as members of the Institute of Medicine. Membership at the IOM, a Washington, D.C.-based organization that provides advice to policymakers and health professionals, is one of the nation's highest honors in biomedicine this week.

Food, music, feminist literature - the Penn Women's Center was the place to be on Friday during its annual open house. Copies of the most recent edition of The F-word, the Women's Center-sponsored feminist magazine, were distributed, and Penn's all-female a capella group, the Quaker Notes, performed a spirited rendition of "Hotel Song" and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.

Having worked as comedic actress, singer or manicurist, Sandra Bernhard has no regret. Except, perhaps, turning down the role of Miranda on Sex and the City. "I don't think I would have lasted," Bernhard said yesterday at a public interview with University of the Arts professor Camilla Paglia on the University of the Arts campus.

Though attorney Thomas Kline is investigating whether the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania could have prevented the death of College sophomore Anne Ryan, legal experts say it is unlikely the case - if there is one- will go to court.

From the dean of the School of Arts and Sciences to the dean of the Law School, job security is virtually guaranteed. The same could be said for any of the deans of Penn's 12 schools, as well as the four undergraduate deans. Former Dean of Admissions Lee Stetson didn't have that same luxury.

Students tend to think of themselves as a catalyzing force in society, bastions of freedom and righteousness in an unjust world. But they're not treated that way, says Thor Halvorssen, whose experiences as a student at Penn led him to devote his career to defending human and free-speech rights, particularly on college campuses.

The panelists were unanimous: The field of earth science offers a variety of career opportunities, but it could interfere with a woman's plans to have a family. Catherine Forster, Susan Gill, Amishi Joshi and Lisa Rodrigues were the guest speakers at Saturday's Women in Earth Science panel discussion held at Carolyn Hoff Lynch Auditorium.

One has to wonder why a Serbian rower who barely knew the rules of football would want to join the Columbia squad, or why the Lions would want him on their team. Well, it helps when he's 6-foot-7 and over 300 pounds. A disgruntled member of the Columbia crew team, Stefan Savic wanted out, but he also wanted to remain a Lion.

Entrepreneur Magazine and The Princeton Review released its fifth annual ranking of the top 50 graduate and undergraduate entrepreneurship programs in the nation with one school conspicuously missing from both: Wharton. Babson College ranked number one among the undergraduate programs and the University of Southern California was lauded as the number one graduate program.

It was sort of an urban safari. They were young professionals, clad in business casual, intrepid explorers of Philadelphia's concrete jungle. They sipped champagne as they boarded the bus, ready for an adventure into uncharted territory. "With drinks in their hands," the driver chuckled, "I gotta be careful with the brakes.

The search process to find a permanent replacement for former Dean of Admissions Lee Stetson, who abruptly resigned at the end of August, has taken its first steps.

It may seem like all Wharton students are starting their own companies before they graduate, but it turns out their community is not as large as it appears.

Wet and wild - and for the Penn men's soccer team, a win as good as any other. Despite a sloppy first-half, an early deficit and pouring rain, the Quakers topped American 2-1 last night at Rhodes Field.

Anita Berrizbeitia, a professor at the Penn School of Design, won the Foundation for Landscape Studies 2007 J. B. Jackson Book Prize for her work, Roberto Burle Marx in Caracas: Parque del Este,1956-1961. The 120-page book, published by the University, looks at the garden designs of Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx.