From Au Bon Pain to Pottruck Fitness Center, a growing number of Penn students are traveling with their e-mail accounts in tow. Few can deny it: The BlackBerry mobile device has earned its place in undergraduate culture at Penn. Au Bon Pain shift supervisor Tamika Deshazor said a majority of customers in the Huntsman Hall cafe approach the cashier with a BlackBerry in hand, and many are rudely preoccupied during their turn to pay.

Former Wharton senior Jason Myers, who was arrested on Nov. 29 for ten burglaries he allegedly committed in Harnwell College House over Thanksgiving break, was held for trial by Judge Deborah Shelton Griffin at his Jan. 25 preliminary hearing. Myers, a bodybuilder who won last year's Mr.

Injuries and illness could not stop the men's and women's tennis teams from earning victories this weekend. But they eventually took their toll on the men, who after winning against Georgetown on Saturday fell in a contested battle with Old Dominion, 4-3, one day later.

After a gutsy come-from-behind win against Princeton last Wednesday, the women's squash team showed no sign of a letdown in a doubleheader against a pair of upstart squash programs on Saturday. In its first year as a varsity program, George Washington was doomed from the start.

Daniel Schwartz is a College sophomore from Decatur, Ga. His e-mail address is schwartz@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Ahead for nearly the entire game at Harvard on Friday, Crimson guard Lindsay Hallion stole an inbounds pass to set up an Emily Tay jumper with 14 seconds left.

If the price to pay for a semester abroad in Japan is eight weeks of couch-surfing, Wharton and College sophomore Baylee Feore is more than happy to live out of her suitcase. While waiting for the academic year to begin in April at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, Feore has been living with a different friend each week while she bides her time.

With ambitious initiatives on his agenda for 2008, Wharton Dean Thomas Robertson has a busy year ahead. Last Friday at the Wharton Undergraduate Leadership Forum, Robertson laid out his core strategies for the upcoming years, which include a Wharton campus expansion plan, the fundraising campaign and faculty recruitment.

As the rain fell outside, a thoughtful crowd of 200 gathered in the transformed multipurpose room of the W.E.B. DuBois College House last Friday evening. Dimly lit and decorated in the red, black and green of the African American flag, the space invited guests to groove to notes of mellow jazz.

AlliedBarton's treatment of its security guards has always proved a thorny problem for Penn. For many years, the University passed the buck on the whole issue, arguing that any involvement with the guards' unionization efforts would be inappropriate. But since 2005 - when AlliedBarton suspended and transferred five guards because they petitioned President Gutmann for more benefits -- Penn officials have slowly become more involved in the situation.

The University of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia may soon be at the center of a revolutionary international endeavor to control the global spread of infectious diseases. Penn's Institute for Strategic Threat Analysis and Response and Harvey Rubin, the institute's director, have developed an international plan to fight infectious diseases.

In the Nursing school, summer employment opportunities extend well beyond the halls of the local ER. Nursing students engage in a wide variety of summer jobs, from study abroad programs to community service. The most common course of action is the eventual enrollment in an externship program at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania or a hometown hospital.

Engineering junior Joan Jose Martinez, a native of the Dominican Republic, can't vote in a presidential primary this spring. But that doesn't mean he's not paying attention to the election campaigns. "Of course I'm concerned with the outcome," he said. "Who becomes the president of the United States affects everyone in the world, whether they care for politics or not.

It was a nightmarish few minutes for Penn, but the ending was as good as anyone could have dreamed. The Quakers had just seen a 16-point advantage vanish in only 12 minutes. Down by two with 6.5 seconds on the clock, Dartmouth had one last opportunity to complete a miracle comeback.

One of Penn's top scientists received the Engineering School's most prestigious award last week. Thomas Cech, president of Howard Hughes Medical Institute and winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was given the Berger Award for not only his engineering expertise, but also for his ability to integrate engineering with other fields of science in some of the medical field's most innovative multidisciplinary research.

Avery Lawrence is a College senior from Charlottesville, Va. His e-mail address is lawrence@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Do you know of the Heavenly Mother? Many students do now, after recent encounters with teams of missionaries on campus. Members of the World Mission Society Church of God have been proselytizing on campus over the past few weeks, approaching students on various street corners and outside University buildings.