Even among unplanned departures, Stetson's case is a strange one for a university that has seen its fair share of faculty and staff scandal.

Members of the 1,200-strong Taxi Workers Alliance of Pennsylvania went on a brief strike yesterday, protesting problems with mandated GPS and credit card systems in their cabs. Originally planned for 48 hours, the strike was scheduled to end today at 6 a.

The arson investigation of a fire that gutted a house on South 41st Street in January has been declared inactive due to a lack of evidence.

A large number of Wharton students came under investigation over the summer for suspicion of cheating on last semester's Operations and Information Management 101 final project.

Wharton and College sophomore Julia Luscombe spent the summer jumping from coast to coast before jetting off to spend two weeks in Japan and South Korea. The best part? It was free, courtesy of Penn. But here's the catch: As a member of the Provost's Undergraduate Research Mentorship Program, Luscombe had to research alternative systems of currency around the world.

A female Penn undergraduate has been brought back to safety after threatening to jump from the roof of the Fresh Grocer parking garage. Penn Police, the Philadelphia Police and Fire Departments and University and city counselors negotiated with her for about two hours until she eventually climbed back down at about 5:20 p.m.

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America may be ready again to open its gates to huddled masses yearning to learn. According to a report published in late August by the Washington D.C.-based Council of Graduate Students, offers of admission to international applicants by U.S. graduate programs is up by 8 percent over last year.

First impressions are everything. And the crumbly, paint-chipped, 15-year-old signs that once stood above Spruce, Walnut and Chestnut streets were not very impressive. The signs, looming over a few of the main gateways to Penn's campus and University City, were an unattractive welcome for freshmen coming to the University for the first time.

A legal battle brewing in Pennsylvania's Supreme Court could leave state beer distributors with a massive hangover. The case, recently accepted by the state's high court, could open the door for six-pack sales in supermarkets and convenience stores. Sheetz, a gas station and convenience store chain located mostly in central Pennsylvania, is appealing a lower court's decision that would stop it from selling beer.

Avery Lawrence is a College senior from Charlottesville, Va. His e-mail address is lawrence@dailypennsylvanian.com

As the fourth season of the hit show about a movie star and his friends living in Los Angeles drew to a close, guys all over campus watched together - and perhaps even bonded.

Two years after Hurricane Katrina, members of the Penn community are responding to residual issues plaguing the New Orleans and Mississippi communities. Connie Hoe and Namhee Yun, two recent graduates of Penn's School of Social Policy and Practice, and first-year SP2 graduate student Crystal Lucas spent last July in Pearlington - a small town located on the western border of Mississippi - addressing the mental-health needs of local residents.

Over a dozen American universities received bomb threats within the past ten days, though no explosives were found at any of the threatened sites. The Federal Bureau of Investigations is still examining the apparent hoaxes. "We're working with the college and university police and the local police to investigate these matters," FBI Special Agent Richard Kolko said.

Ellen Robb's death was a personal attack made by someone who wanted her face bludgeoned so badly that she became "hardly recognizable as a human being," according to two mental-health professionals. But the lawyer for Rafael Robb, the Economics professor who will face trial this fall in connection with the death of Ellen, his wife, wants to bar that expert testimony from court.

After two mistrials, the stage is set for the third act of the Irina Malinovskaya murder-trial saga. Jury selection began yesterday for the next trial of Malinovskaya, a Wharton undergraduate accused of murder, Delaware state prosecution spokesman Jason Miller said.

Fear of the Freshman 15 is not the only reason new students are thinking about food. The University chose Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma for this year's Penn Reading Project, for which freshmen are assigned a book to read over the summer. The book tracks different meals from their start on the farm to their finale on the dinner table - everything from a hunter's catch to a McDonald's meal.