Penn Student Agencies has added a host of new services for Penn students to utilize. PSA general manager Aviva Hirschfeld will now offer a notary service from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays or by appointment. Notarized signatures are often required for legal documents like drivers' licenses and house deeds.

Strobe lights, music, karaoke and chocolate fondue - sounds like a party! Add Penn President Amy Gutmann and a student dressed as a cardboard dreidel and you have last night's Hanukkah candle lighting at Hillel. Penn Hillel celebrated the first night of the Festival of Lights with a party for the University community.

Video games and homework aren't always mutually exclusive. One-hundred-fifty students at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering took an innovative new class on video games this semester, playing them on various consoles designed to provide students with a technical and historical foundation for games.

One Psychology class has students peering deep into their minds. No, it's not divination. It's Psychology assistant professor Amishi Jha's study about how the brain perceives reality. It's not your average science class, though. Instead of reading about psychological studies in textbooks, students design experiments on their own and head to the functional magnetic resonance imaging lab to conduct them.

Amidst all the media attention regarding the war in Iraq, there exists a myriad of differing opinions on how to bring stability to the nation. Chris Coyne, author of After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy, provided a fresh perspective on the United States' foreign policy at the Penn Bookstore yesterday evening.

Theft Nov. 25 - A male student reported that at about 1 p.m., an unknown suspect removed a painting from the a building on the 3600 block of Locust Walk. Nov. 25 - A female student reported that at about 5:05 p.m., an unknown suspect removed a computer from a secured room within the Clinical Research Building, located at 415 Curie Blvd.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has cleared the way for casino construction to begin in Philadelphia. In a ruling Monday, the court found "deliberate inaction" in City Council's failure to vote on zoning and land-use requests from the SugarHouse casino, set to be built in Fishtown and Northern Liberties, and issued the go-ahead itself.

The past couple of months have been busy for 2005 College alumnus Edward Anderton and his girlfriend Jocelyn Kirsch. To support their lavish lifestyle, the two committed fraud on a massive scale, taking in thousands of dollars in forged credit- card transactions, according to Philadelphia Police.

Edward Anderton, a 2005 Penn alumnus, was arrested on Friday for allegedly stealing his neighbors' identities and establishing lines of credit in his neighbors' names, Division of Public Safety officials said. Anderton, 25, and Drexel University student Jocelyn Kirsch, 22, burglarized at least two of their neighbors' apartments and created fake Georgia driver's licenses in order to open credit card accounts, the Philadelphia Daily News, reported yesterday.

A Penn Law student was accosted by two would-be robbers on Sunday near the corner of 36th and Lancaster streets, Philadelphia Police Lt. John Walker said. Eugenia Birman, 22, was walking on the street at about 11:25 a.m. when she was approached by two women.

Although the University improved computer security after a Penn student allegedly caused a server crash in February 2006, a similar type of attack could still cause problems for even the largest Web servers.

Philadelphia may be best known for its cheesesteaks, but Penn researchers have given chocolate a home here as well. No, not M&Ms; and hot cocoa. Their research has uncovered a much more primitive form of chocolate - one that has earned widespread acclaim as the earliest known use of the cacao plant.

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.