Students tend to think of themselves as a catalyzing force in society, bastions of freedom and righteousness in an unjust world. But they're not treated that way, says Thor Halvorssen, whose experiences as a student at Penn led him to devote his career to defending human and free-speech rights, particularly on college campuses.

The panelists were unanimous: The field of earth science offers a variety of career opportunities, but it could interfere with a woman's plans to have a family. Catherine Forster, Susan Gill, Amishi Joshi and Lisa Rodrigues were the guest speakers at Saturday's Women in Earth Science panel discussion held at Carolyn Hoff Lynch Auditorium.

One has to wonder why a Serbian rower who barely knew the rules of football would want to join the Columbia squad, or why the Lions would want him on their team. Well, it helps when he's 6-foot-7 and over 300 pounds. A disgruntled member of the Columbia crew team, Stefan Savic wanted out, but he also wanted to remain a Lion.

Entrepreneur Magazine and The Princeton Review released its fifth annual ranking of the top 50 graduate and undergraduate entrepreneurship programs in the nation with one school conspicuously missing from both: Wharton. Babson College ranked number one among the undergraduate programs and the University of Southern California was lauded as the number one graduate program.

It was sort of an urban safari. They were young professionals, clad in business casual, intrepid explorers of Philadelphia's concrete jungle. They sipped champagne as they boarded the bus, ready for an adventure into uncharted territory. "With drinks in their hands," the driver chuckled, "I gotta be careful with the brakes.

The search process to find a permanent replacement for former Dean of Admissions Lee Stetson, who abruptly resigned at the end of August, has taken its first steps.

It may seem like all Wharton students are starting their own companies before they graduate, but it turns out their community is not as large as it appears.

Wet and wild - and for the Penn men's soccer team, a win as good as any other. Despite a sloppy first-half, an early deficit and pouring rain, the Quakers topped American 2-1 last night at Rhodes Field.

Anita Berrizbeitia, a professor at the Penn School of Design, won the Foundation for Landscape Studies 2007 J. B. Jackson Book Prize for her work, Roberto Burle Marx in Caracas: Parque del Este,1956-1961. The 120-page book, published by the University, looks at the garden designs of Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx.

After starting the first three games of the season, it became clear that Robert Irvin's right shoulder had never fully recovered from offseason surgery, and now it looks like Irvin could be shelved for the remainder of the season.

One male student was written about for allegedly taping a video of himself having sex. In another university, a female keeps a public diary of her sexual escapades. And then there are the groups of students who find themselves in all sorts of trouble after plagiarizing or burning flags.

Weekly crime log with interactive map

Avoiding weirdos is often easy, even though they crowd this world. But at Penn, you can get stuck with blossoming freaks as roommates every semester. School acts like a greenhouse for oddities, which thrive once removed from parental shadows. How can you deal with your roommates' peculiar ways and odd beliefs? For example, many weirdos believe that were they not to leave thickets of pubic hair in the shower, others would die from frustrated curiosity about its length, color and curliness.

Nutter's proposed stop-and-frisk policy may get a little pat-down search of its own. Philadelphia's City Council passed a resolution last week announcing its intent to look into the potential implementation of the controversial stop-and-frisk policing strategy.

WILMINGTON, Del. - The murder trial of Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya has been postponed until at least Monday due to an emergency in Judge James Vaughn's family. The cause of the emergency was not known, but Vaughn called a recess yesterday morning in the middle of the testimony of Sergey Dedov, Malinovskaya's boyfriend at the time of the death of Irina Zlotnikov, the then-girlfriend of Malinovskaya's ex-boyfriend, Robert Bondar.

The last time the Penn field hockey team faced off against Delaware was in 2004. On its way to an Ivy League Championship, the Quakers pulled off a 2-1 thriller against the then 14th-ranked Blue Hens. Three years after Penn's historic season, it once again has its sights set on an upset.