Jury deliberations in the murder trial of Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya came to a halt Friday morning after officials realized a serious court error had occurred. Proceedings were delayed for four and a half hours early Friday morning when it was discovered that jurors had been erroneously given court clerk's files from the past two trials, both of which ended in mistrials.

Van Pelt Library: A resource for studying, researching -and theft? The Division of Public Safety revealed last week that it is currently conducting an investigation into a rising tide of unattended theft, with a focus on crimes occurring in Van Pelt, the main library on campus.

Halfway through a Friday, the most definitive sounds along Locust Walk are those of shuffling feet and immutable construction. But for dozens of Penn's Muslim students, faculty and staff, there is a different sound ringing in their ears: the Islamic Call to Prayer.

The number of thin, white laptops around campus is about to jump - again. With today's release of Apple's newest operating system, called Mac OS X Leopard, officials expect campus orders of Apple products to increase. But overall, a potential rise is par for the course.

A West Philadelphia man was killed and two people, including one police officer, were wounded early this morning in a gunfight outside of Koko Bongo nightclub, located just off the edge of campus. Lamar Bembry, a 21-year-old resident of the 5400 block of Race Street, was shot and killed by police during the gun battle.

Facebook. Or "le livre de visage." Or maybe "das Angesichtbuch." Once the social-networking toy of American collegians, Facebook has since expanded globally. And with membership recently growing at astronomical rates in Europe and other parts of the world, users say the site has started to bridge a gap of oceanic proportions.

Are National Basketball Association referees racially biased? Business and Public Policy professor Justin Wolfers tried to answer this question in a lecture last night in Logan Hall.

The typical criteria for a business-school ranking include job placement, graduates' salaries and academic quality. But the Aspen Institute Center for Business Education set out to judge schools on a less conventional set of standards. The organization, which aims to create future business leaders who embrace social responsibilities, recently released its biannual "Beyond Grey Pinstripes" report.

While most use text-messaging for practical purposes, one man is putting the medium to a newer and more creative use. Paul Notzold, a graduate of Parsons School of Design and Technology in New York, spoke about the potential of mobile media yesterday at a packed Kelly Writers House.

The future of Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya still hangs in the balance as the jury failed to reach a verdict yesterday. Malinovskaya is charged with the murder of Temple University graduate student Irina Zlotnikov, the girlfriend of the accused's former boyfriend, Robert Bondar.

City officials seem to be giving the yellow light to development along the Schuylkill. Traffic congestion along and near the expressway is a major concern for the city, the Philadelphia Planning Commission said in a meeting last Tuesday in discussing the planned $400 million Cira Centre South development.

While students gain knowledge and skills from their professors in the classroom, they rarely have the opportunity to interact with them in a social setting. Last night, campus Greek organizations provided one such opportunity, hosting the second biannual Faculty Tea as part of Greek Week.

Nearly half of the attendees of last evening's Werner Herzog forum were turned away due to safety concerns. Packing the aisles, the back and the outside, 800 people from the University community and Philadelphia tried to cram into Meyerson Hall's auditorium 40 minutes before the event, entitled "Was the 20th Century a Mistake?" They missed work, visited Philadelphia for the day - anything for a chance see the popular German filmmaker.

WILMINGTON, Del. - During closing arguments yesterday, lawyers focused as much on Robert Bondar's integrity as on that of murder suspect Irina Malinovskaya. The Wharton undergraduate's defense lashed out at Bondar in its summary, saying he has become "a master of manipulating" the facts of the case and implying that his testimony about Malinovskaya's obsession with him was unreliable.

Last fall, College senior Jesse Benton was searching for housing. He realized he had two options: save money by living further away from campus, or splurge for a spacious apartment closer to school. Benton, like many other Penn students, decided the possible dent in his wallet was more important than added luxury, and he chose to live in an apartment near 42nd and Chestnut streets.

Greeted with both cheers and sneers, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) addressed a divided audience at Steinhardt Hall yesterday afternoon, warning the crowd about the threat of radical Islam and opining on liberal professors.

She dreamed the dream as a Princeton undergraduate and drafted the plan during her senior year. A year later in 1989, Wendy Kopp was looking out at an audience of the first 489 recent college graduates who had signed up to be members of Teach for America, the national corps that would grow to pioneer the movement against educational inequity in the United States.