The Panhellenic Council has elected College junior Drew Tye as president for the upcoming year. Tye, who is currently the Panhellenic delegate for Sigma Delta Tau, ran against two current board members for the position. The Panhellenic president serves as the representative of the female Greek community for the University administration.

Bio prof. sheds light on Lyme disease Recent research by Penn biology professor Dustin Brisson suggests that chipmunks and two shrew species account for nearly three-quarters of carriers of ticks infected with Lyme disease. The widely held belief was that mice were the main animal carriers of the disease.

Alex Buder Shapiro is approaching graduation - but her days of playtime, recess and cafeteria food are far from over. The College senior is taking a job in human resources at Google. There, her playtime will be a game of pool with colleagues, recess will be climbing up an indoor rock wall and cafeteria food will be tapas at Cafe Pintxo.

Sometimes, it pays to try something different. Since 2002, Arabic, Chinese and American Sign Language have become more popular than ever before as students have come to recognize their value in the job market. Meanwhile, student enrollment in traditional language programs such as French and Spanish has remained steady.

A new Web site is giving students an educational and charitable way to procrastinate. By playing vocabulary games on a new, non-profit Web site called Freerice.com, students can do community service from their computer. For every correct word in the game, twenty grains of rice are donated to help end world hunger through the site's partnership with the United Nations World Food Program.

It took some practice, but 2006 Penn alumnus Pierre Gooding has the essentials of being a teacher down pat. He's learned how to take attendance, field requests to go to the bathroom, write on the chalkboard like a pro, check-up on nightly homework assignments and, most importantly, teach his students the English skills they will need for life.

Three students have been arrested or indicted in the past week. The north side of campus has seen two shootings in a month. A female student was sexually assaulted in her off-campus apartment, and suspects have flashed students in two separate incidents.

It's not often that Penn is called a "real underdog" at anything. But those are the words members of the Penn Environmental Group use to talk about the University in next semester's RecycleMania, a 10-week contest sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency, designed to promote waste reduction.

At the last Undergraduate Assembly meeting of the semester, members tied up loose ends on housing, course offerings and free newspapers before winter break. Major topics from yesterday night's meeting include: n Engineering sophomore Charles Slominski and Wharton senior Azim Munivar gave an update on the returning students housing application process.

German professor Liliane Weissberg's class on Sigmund Freud is listed under the German department. It's also listed under the History and Sociology of Science department. It's in the English, Women's Studies and Comparative Literature departments, too.

Wharton junior Jason Myers was arrested Thursday for 10 burglaries committed inside Harnwell College House over Thanksgiving break. Between Nov. 21 and Nov. 26, Myers, then a Harnwell resident, allegedly stole items from 10 different dorm rooms on various floors of the college house.

Would you like some caviar on your latkes? How about chipotle mayonnaise? Those are just a few examples of the twists local restaurants put on the popular Hanukkah dish at the fifth-annual Latkepalooza, held yesterday afternoon at the Gershman branch of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Philadelphia.

College students are attempting to return to the past by morphing their campuses into hotbeds of political activity. At yesterday's Students for Human Rights and Democratic Education Conference, students from 8 different colleges and universities gathered in Logan Hall to hear Former U.

Troy Brown, the man charged with committing 10 robberies last November by threatening his victims with a screwdriver, heads to court today for trial. Jury selection for Brown's trial in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas begins this morning, and opening arguments will take place in the afternoon.

The number of early-decision applications to Penn dropped slightly for the second year in a row, admissions officials announced yesterday. Penn received 3,929 early-decision applications this year, a 1.8 percent fall from last year's 4,001 applications. Interim Dean of Admissions Eric Kaplan said he expects early-decision applicants to make up 45 to 48 percent of the class of 2012, which translates to an acceptance rate of about 30 percent.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced the indictment of Engineering junior Ryan Goldstein yesterday for his alleged involvement in a global computer-hacking conspiracy. Goldstein was arrested Nov. 1 and charged with computer-fraud conspiracy, to which he pled not guilty.

Grateful students and proud donors gathered last night in Wynn Commons, with financial-aid recipients interacting with the people who have made their education possible. The event also served as an opportunity for Penn President Amy Gutmann and other administration officials to call attention to Penn's ongoing capital campaign and encourage donations to Penn's financial aid programs.