The long-term future of government policies on abortion, the death penalty, use of torture and a number of other issues are at stake in the 2008 presidential election. Experts believe this year's election is significant because the president's power to appoint justices to the Supreme Court has the potential to substantially alter policies in the long run.

Domus, the eight-story, $71-million luxury apartment complex located on 34th and Chestnut streets, is up for sale - barely a year after its completion in the fall of 2007. Domus was intended to be built and then put on the market shortly after, according to a spokeswoman for the building's developer.

Based on a celebrity-studded public service announcement of the same name, "Don't Vote / 5 Friends" is a viral video produced and distributed by Penn Leads the Vote - a nonpartisan organization dedicated to increasing voter turnout.

Engineering senior Ryan Goldstein's avoidance of child pornography charges was not unusual, experts say, since many people can escape some criminal charges by cooperating with authorities. Goldstein was sentenced last week on computer-hacking charges, but does not face charges for the several thousand images of child pornography found on his computer because he helped the FBI catch others involved in the hacking scheme.

The juniors who are abroad this semester might be missing out on campus election hype, but that doesn't mean they aren't voting. College junior George Donnelly, who is studying in Scotland this semester, got an absentee ballot because he "wanted to make sure Barack Obama lays the smack down in New Jersey.

The anticipation of the upcoming presidential election can be felt everywhere on campus, including Sunday night's Undergraduate Proxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 sembly meeting which featured two proposals on the topic. The UA considered a $1,400 budget request by Penn Leads the Vote to help cover the costs of "getting out the vote" on Election Day, including balloons, food for volunteers, pamphlets%2

It's no secret that college students are some of the most sleep-deprived people in the nation - but the extent to which they are may be surprising. Only 11 percent of Penn students report feeling rested seven days a week when they wake up in the morning, according to this year's Health and Wellness survey of undergraduate, graduate and professional students.

This weekend, Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity rocked for the homeless on College Green On Thursday evening, the brothers of AEPi began their annual 48-hour-long camp-out during which they assumed the role of the homeless. The brothers stayed up day and night asking passersby for change to donate to the University City Hospitality Coalition, a local soup kitchen.

Many international students may be looking to return home after graduating from Penn in the next few years. Between the economic downturn and the limited availability of H-1B visas - which allow international students to work in the U.S. after graduation - U.

Large amounts of personal property were taken from the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house early Friday morning, Division of Public Safety and Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs officials said. DPS spokeswoman Stef Cella wrote in an e-mail that they believe the theft was perpetrated by a guest of one of the fraternity brothers who stayed at the house Thursday night.

Come Nov. 4, there's another reason to exercise your right to vote. Think of it as a friendly rivalry between Penn and Dartmouth. Dartmouth has issued a challenge to Penn to get a higher voter turnout rate on campus next Tuesday - and Penn has accepted. "Earlier this summer I talked with some Ivy presidents about ways to make students get out the vote, and I was thinking of a tangible and fun way we could get students involved," said Dartmouth senior and Student Assembly president Molly Bode, who issued the challenge to Undergraduate Assembly chairman and Wharton and College senior Wilson Tong.

If Barack Obama were running against John McCain for the Undergraduate Assembly, Obama would win in a landslide. On Penn's campus, 81 percent of students said they support Obama, compared to 17 percent who said they support McCain, according to a CBS News/Chronicle of Higher Education/UWire poll released today.

A Penn education can really pay off. Just ask College seniors Brett Muhlada and Nancy Duan, who came from behind to win the first-ever Robbins Diamond Dash - and a $20,000 Hearts on Fire diamond ring. Hosted by local jeweler Robbins Diamonds, the 550-person scavenger hunt spanned more than two hours last Saturday, kicking off at Philadelphia's Thomas Paine Plaza and concluding at Love Park.

Retail value of a Coach Signature Stripe Patent Tote? $268. Through various activities including a "Price is Right" game, Wharton Women taught over 180 girls from local high schools the basic tenets of personal finance at their sixth annual DollarDiva Conference.

Transforming books into digital resources may be the latest trend in the world of academic libraries, but Penn officials say it may be a while before Penn joins in on the fun. HathiTrust - an initiative launched by the Committee on Institutional Cooperation as well as the 11 libraries of the University of California system - will grow to be a digital book repository for major research institution libraries.

For students who plan to work or study in Boston after they graduate, a new social media Web site offers a way for them to network and connect to the city even before they leave Penn. Bostonworldpartnerships.com will be primarily informational and there is no cost to join.