Students see a useful tool, administrators see a potential problem, and some entrepreneurs think they've found a very profitable idea.

Weekday afternoons, you'll find the Magic Carpet food truck perched on the corner of 36th and Spruce streets. The magic lamp emblazoned on its green awning tempts students with promises of cheap culinary delights and meatless Mediterranean marvels. Try the magic tofu meatballs, and you'll understand why the Magic Carpet has become the alternative street food option for Penn's vegetarian population.

The Jewish high holidays are a major fund-raising event for most synagogues and Jewish organizations. And now, Penn's Hillel is no different. Under a new policy enacted this year, Hillel will charge non-student members of the region's Jewish community $180 to attend services.

And you thought baking Pillsbury brownies was a piece of cake. According to the rabbinic definition of baking, you don't even need the mix. Last night, David Freidenreich, a fellow at Penn's Center for Advanced Jewish Studies, discussed a taboo against eating foods prepared by people who are not Jewish and how definitions have been changed over time, sometimes in counter-intuitive ways, to get around the custom.

Last night the field hockey team made it more clear than ever that Penn is indeed not Penn State. And the No. 8 Nittany Lions certainly had reason to be proud that they are not Penn. They pounded the Quakers 3-0 for Penn's second consecutive loss and its fifth defeat on the season as Penn State garnered its seventh consecutive win.

Amira Fawcett is a College sophomore from Houston.

After months of deliberation, the verdict on the Engineering School's accreditation status is in.

High-school juniors can exhale: Early decision at Penn is not going anywhere, the dean of admissions says.

Al Bagnoli's 100th career win started in style.

Wharton alumnus Robert Levy and his wife Diane Levy pledged $5 million to fellowships and social-impact initiatives, University officials announced this week.

The men's soccer team has not been kind to the Atlantic 10 this year.

College can be a bit different from sixth grade. Take student government, for example. Penn's Class Boards and Undergraduate Assembly actually matter, unlike their pre-pubescent counterparts. The UA, for one, allocates about $1.55 million in student funds.

Low-income students at Columbia University will no longer have to pay back loans when they graduate, Columbia officials announced yesterday.

WILMINGTON, Del. - Erotic bedtime stories, rooftop pot-smoking sessions and suspicious phone calls were all fair game in the defense's cross-examination of Robert Bondar yesterday morning.

As the official story runs, President Bush was re-elected in 2004. But one professor has his doubts. In a speech at the Penn Bookstore last night, professor Steven Freeman said that exit polls predicted a victory for Democratic candidate John Kerry. He added that the electoral process might be to blame for the discrepancy.

Tulane sophomore Thomas Krouse is gay, and as a temporary Penn student last fall, he let the school know about it when he publicly complained that he didn't want to leave the liberal northeast for his southern home. Fast-forward to today, though, and Krouse says he could not have been more wrong.

One candidate for freshman class president can't name his counterpart in the Class of 2007, though he knows he's "a pretty sweet dude.