The long road to a university presidency has been getting longer. According to a recent survey, the amount of time it takes to progress through the ranks of academia is increasing, resulting in older presidents, said Jacqueline King, the assistant vice president of the Center for Policy Analysis of the American Council on Education.

Penn graduates make a hefty salary - but not as much as their counterparts at Harvard and Princeton universities, according to a recent study. The online global compensation firm PayScale conducted a study earlier this summer that compared the incomes of graduates from the Ivy League schools.

While visiting Pottruck seven days a week will burn calories, people often forget that a large part of staying healthy has to do with consuming nutritious food - not just eliminating carbs or candy. Finding fresh produce might at first seem difficult in West Philadelphia, but in fact it's possible at Clark Park, located on 43rd and Baltimore streets.

Though hundreds of companies come to campus to recruit interns and employees each year, many are narrowing their search to reach a more diverse group of students. Four of these companies - Google, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and PepsiCo. - did just that with a recruiting event in Irvine Auditorium hosted by Lime Connect, a company that helps companies recruit students with disabilities.

As more students turn to energy drinks to help pull all-nighters, health concerns about the beverages are also on the rise. The energy drink industry raked in $477 million in 2006-07, a 34-percent leap from the previous year, according to an Information Resources report.

From the sexing of fossils to horses' harems, Stanford history of science professor Londa Schiebinger spoke on gender in science and engineering in College Hall. The largely female audience heard Schiebinger's manifesto for the sciences. She began with the relative lack of women in science - "the woman problem" - by noting that past solutions focused on teaching women to act more like men and "left the man's world unchanged.

Penn Medicine's newest facility, the $302 million Raymond and Ruth Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, formally opened its doors yesterday evening. The building's lofty atrium was host to the opening festivities, where food, drink and a live band kept guests content.

For the Divine Nine, it's till death do us part. Membership within the Greek world is for life: once a member, always a member. But membership within the nine historically African American sororities and fraternities, known collectively as The Divine Nine, is for life - and then some.

Though the government is likely to simplify the federal financial-aid program, next year's political turnover makes it hard to predict the possible changes. As of now, shortening the Free Application for Federal Student Aid appears to be the change most likely to occur.

Some environmentalists are at a fork in the road concerning whether urban or rural areas are tops at producing harmful pollutants in the atmosphere. A recent report from the Energy Information Administration - which provides governmental energy statistics - shows that, since 1980, industrialized areas in some states have significantly reduced their carbon footprints, and in many cases, produced fewer carbon emissions than their residential neighbors.

Thinking wings or pizza for dinner? How about wasabi-crusted filet mignon from Pod or El Vez's signature guacamole? A newly struck partnership between campusfood.com and diningin.com - two Web sites that let students order food from a variety of restaurants - will give students more options for food delivery.

By KRISTEN ROCHA Contributing Writer gamail@dailypennsylvanian.com Has the giant mosquito on Locust Walk been bugging you this week? Don't be alarmed - this costumed insect isn't here to bite, but rather to promote the saving of lives in Africa through the malaria-fighting program Nothing But Nets.

In the past week, 11 Penn faculty members joined hundreds of economics professors from around the country in writing to Congress to express their opinions on the $700 billion bailout bill the Senate passed last night. This package -- a revision of which was defeated in the House of Representatives on Sunday - proposed a rescue plan in which the government would buy the bad assets of several financial institutions in order to stem the recent financial turmoil.

Five Wharton students are proving that not even a failing financial market can curb the desire to donate. Givology.org, a new nonprofit Web site developed by a group of 2008 Wharton alumni, gives users a more participatory role in making donations to improve worldwide education.

The Student Activities Council is looking for ways to support student performing arts groups that have been shut out of funding due to shortage of rehearsal and performance space in recent years. Groups that wished to be recognized by SAC - which provides funding and other support for groups on campus - traditionally needed to recognized by the Performing Arts Council first.

Citywide, assaults on officers for the first half of 2008 are up 19 percent compared to last year. The death of Philadelphia Police Sgt. Patrick McDonald - who was killed in the line of duty on Sept. 23 and whose funeral was held Tuesday - is the most recent incident of the overall trend of violence against police in the city.

Everybody loves a freebie, especially these days. For Penn's Institute of Contemporary Art, offering free admission has more than doubled its number of visitors. The museum, located on 36th and Sansom streets, has always been free for the Penn community but charged $6 for outside visitors.