Miji Park and her Idea Corp co-workers have been providing free consulting to 20 distinctive New Orleans small businesses since this summer. They've been helping the stores find ways to cope with the declining number of tourists by expanding their customer base and online operations.

The rock-and-roll lifestyle of Pale Nimbus - a band of Penn graduates and students - is too wild for print. "We'd rather not have [our stories] published," said Pale Nimbus guitarist Bobby Frisch. With the juicy parts left to the imagination, the band is all about the music.

Students excited about wireless Internet access in their dorm rooms are receiving disappointing advice from hallmates and the technology experts at Penn: Don't throw out those Ethernet cords yet. University officials pledged $700,000 to provide wireless Internet access in all college houses by the time students moved in this year.

Squeezing in to a closed class is about to get easier - but at a price. A Wharton and Engineering senior has created a program called "Class Buster" that will enable Penn students to know the exact second space opens up in a full class. The site - located at hometown.

About 22,000 students attend the University of Pennsylvania, and up to half of them are graduate students.

The lack of Engineering graduates who actually go on to be engineers is having a dentrimental effect on the quality of the school.

Abdi Farah is a College sophomore from Owings Mills, Md.

The human-rights crisis in Darfur is showing no signs of letting up, and Jewish leaders both on campus and off say they are embracing the issue in an effort to prevent another Holocaust. Sunday, a group of about 25 Penn students from Hillel and campus group Students Taking Action Now: Darfur traveled to New York City to spread the word about genocide in Sudan.

Princeton University is following the leader. Administrators there said yesterday that the school will eliminate early admission beginning in 2008.

Some West Philadelphia residents remember the buzzing Baltimore Avenue commercial corridor of the 1950s and '60s. Now, changes to the area provide a glimpse of that bygone prosperity. New businesses, including a potential pizzeria and brewery in the firehouse at 50th Street and Baltimore, a wine and spirits store and a Vietnamese restaurant, are part of the movement.

EASTON, Pa. - Penn football coach Al Bagnoli is no stranger to special-teams disasters: His team fell victim to several of them last year. He must have felt an ironic satisfaction, then, to see his team force two of those miscues in key situations on Saturday.

With a 2-1 victory over Penn on Saturday, Cornell's field hockey team jumped out to 4-0 for the first time in its history. But the perfect record was broken up by Vermont yesterday in a 2-0 Big Red loss. Despite 11 shots, the Quakers were only able to convert once in Saturday's game.

Week in photos for week of September 11, 2006

With only two months remaining until critical elections take place across the country, current Penn students will not be the only ones considering whether to vote here in Philadelphia or in their home states. Recent Penn graduates who registered to vote in Pennsylvania while living in the city will also have to decide whether to cast a vote here - even though it may be illegal.

Alicia Puglionesi is a College sophomore from Havertown, Pa.

NEW ORLEANS - There's only one finished room in David Fountain's formerly flooded house in the Upper Ninth Ward, just a few blocks from the Habitat for Humanity construction site. But, oh, what a room. He's got a big color TV, Internet-connected computer, DVD player, VCR, camcorder, printer, CD player, some serious speakers and even a few old-fashioned turntables to spin records on.

Six years after the fight truly began, this city can finally bask in the glow of a victory for the people: Philadelphia has banned smoking from restaurants. On Thursday, Mayor Street announced - at the last possible moment, of course - that he had signed a ban that took City Council months to pass.