Penn researchers have completed research on a vaccine that may lead to the prevention of certain types of tumors, specifically breast tumors, according to Reuters. The research was presented this weekend at a meeting hosted by the American Association for Cancer Research.

Some students got a taste of poverty yesterday at a "hunger banquet" held in Houston Hall. As attendees walked into the room, they were handed a card that placed them into one of three socioeconomic groups for the night: high income, middle income or low income.

Swans may live the first third of their lives alone, but when these birds find a partner, they stay together for life. The same is true of SWANS - Strong Women Achievers, No Spouse - Christine Whelan, author of Why Smart Men Marry Smart Women, said yesterday in a talk held for about 40 at the Penn Bookstore.

There's a new all-guys club at Penn, but it's not another frat. These guys want to talk sexual assault, and how to help its victims. Twelve students from Penn and Drexel University this semester started up the West Philadelphia chapter of 1in4, an all-male peer-education group that focuses on teaching college men about sexual violence.

Henry Kissinger, secretary of state during Vietnam, said last night that the current war in Iraq echoes the earlier conflict. "Americans want to compromise, but to our enemies, compromise equals defeat," he said.

Penn is becoming an increasingly difficult place for top students to get into. But it's also getting more and more difficult to get faculty members to stay. "The aggressiveness with which schools compete with each other has definitely increased over the years," Wharton Deputy Dean David Schmittlein said.

An everyday nuisance for Penn students turned fatal last month at Ohio State University. On Oct. 20, OSU freshman Andrew Polakowski of Erie, Pa., was killed when he tried to pile into an overcrowded elevator in a dorm on campus. The packed elevator - which had exceeded its maximum weight limit - began to move with the doors still open, and Polakowski was crushed between the elevator and the floor.

The stucco wall on the west side of the Kappa Sigma fraternity house is, to be blunt, ugly.

When Wharton junior Samir Sheth isn't in Finance meetings, he's performing before thousands of passionate fans in India.

How it's done Today a parking lot; tomorrow a nanotechnology research building that could cost upwards of $80 million. That, in a nutshell, is the present and future of a space near 33rd and Walnut streets. The lot, which sits next to the Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter, is slated to hold the new facility as part of Penn's eastward expansion.

Late-night Facebook perusing may soon be more than a procrastination device - it might be a legitimate homework assignment.

Forget standardized test scores and alumni giving rates: In a recent survey by the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, the only number that mattered to Penn's ranking was 8.8.

Former Penn professor Tracy McIntosh may appeal a judge's decision that he be resentenced for his sexual-assault conviction.

Incidents of racist and homophobic behavior "are not hard to find on Penn Athletic teams," according to an Undergraduate Assembly proposal passed Sunday night.

Abbie Feinberg (white shirt) and other members of the Amorphous Jugglers practice their fire- juggling techniques on College Green near Van Pelt Library on Saturday.

University President Amy Gutmann put her money where her mouth is last night.

Philadelphia officials must think the city is too classy for the average Porta-Potty.