Last night, the students in Accounting professor Victor Defeo's Managerial Accounting class were the victims of an April Fool's Day prank. At 9:22 p.m., an e-mail was sent to the course's listserv from what appeared to be Defeo's Wharton e-mail address saying that, because a number of students were discovered to have cheated on the last exam, all students enrolled would be required to take a make-up exam this Saturday at 10 a.

Huntsman Hall was host last night to "Mental Health Camp," a program designed to "show that everyone could use a little help," according to College junior and Reach-A-Peer Line President Jordan Coello. The event, now in its second-annual installation, was the result of collaboration between a variety of mental-health and minority groups on campus.

The Undergraduate Assembly is beginning work on an initiative to add American Sign Language to the list of courses that can fulfill Wharton's foreign-language requirement. The initiative - headed by Wharton and Nursing sophomore and Undergraduate Assembly volunteer member G.

While other groups on campus have seen recent pullbacks in spending and drops in funding, Penn's Big Brothers Big Sisters program is growing more robustly than ever. The five-year-old organization received its largest number of applicants this semester, bringing up its "matches" between Bigs and Littles to 300 so far this spring, according to Penn student director and College senior Eileen McKeown.

The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly passed a resolution March 25 to raise awareness among students and faculty about the Grassley-Sanders Amendment to the federal stimulus bill. The amendment, passed by the Senate unanimously in February, places restrictions on the hiring of foreign workers holding H-1B visas by companies receiving Troubled Asset Relief Program funding.

Domenique Wilson, the suspect in the home invasion and sexual assault at 44th and Spruce streets last December, allegedly attempted to break out of prison in Feb. On Feb. 20, the 23-year-old tried to escape from his segregation cell at the Clinton County Correctional Facility, according to Warden Tom Duran.

For the most of the class of 2013, gaining the coveted Ivy League acceptance was tougher than ever. But for two Ivy League schools, Penn included, the acceptance rate increased -- Penn's rate went from 16.4 percent last April to 17.1 percent this year. Princeton's rate also rose slightly, from 9.

2008 college alumnus Alexander McCobin has been sued by Perspectives Debate Inc. for breaching his fiduciary duty to Perspectives and misappropriating its funds, including allegedly withdrawing more than $37,000 from its bank account.

South Street Bridge tower designs proposed Due to safety concerns, four design alternatives to the towers above the road deck of the South Street Bridge were introduced to community members on Monday. The design of these glass-and-steel towers - which will take the place of the four watch towers that have been demolished - is the last step of the redesign, 30th Ward Democratic leader Marcia Wilkof said.

Beginning next fall, the School of Engineering and Applied Science will offer a master's degree in embedded systems. In the current academic year, the school also created a master's in integrated product design. The IPD program also includes classes taught in Wharton and the School of Design, since engineering, business and aesthetics are the three aspects of product design, according to IPD director and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics professor Mark Yim.

"Full equality for gay Americans will be achieved, 100-percent guaranteed ... It's not a question of if, it's only a question of when." These were the words of Cheryl Jacques at a lecture she gave on the gay rights movement last night at the Law School.

Originally scheduled to open in early April, Capogiro Gelato is now slated for opening in the latter part of the month, according to owner John Reitano. The reason, he wrote in an e-mail, is that it is tough for a "family-owned small business . to grow in a challenging economic environment.

FlingSafe application deadline Friday Applications to volunteer for the Social Planning and Events Committee's FlingSafe are due April 3 at 12 a.m. Created four years ago, FlingSafe is a student-run program that encourages safe decisions throughout the weekend of SPEC's Spring Fling.

Students on campus may have noticed the river of Greek-lettered hats meandering between classes. Under the hats are fraternity brothers and sorority sisters celebrating Day One of the five-day fiesta known as Greek Weekend. The Weekend, now in its 11th year at Penn, marks an extended celebration of Greek unity and community service and features six events over the course of the weekend.

Black emergency-room patients are likely to wait about an hour longer than other patients to be transferred to a regular hospital bed, according to a recent study by researchers in the School of Medicine. The study, which drew from data from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey - a nationwide sample of emergency-room visits across the country - also found that critically ill black patients waited approximately an hour longer than other patients to be transferred out of intensive-care units.

Wharton Dean Tom Robertson announced the appointments of three key positions to Wharton's Executive Boards on March 25: Scott Wieler, '87 Wharton Graduate alumnus, William Lawrence, '83 Wharton alumnus and Sebastian Escarrer Jaume, '93 Wharton Graduate alumnus.

In Geoffrey Chaucer's The Wife of Bath's Tale, a knight has to atone for his crime by traveling across medieval England to discover what it is that women want most. But what answers will he get when he encounters a host of modern characters, from Virginia Woolf to Sigmund Freud? Their responses will be revealed in the comic opera The Loathly Lady, premiering at 7:30 p.