As amazing as Philly Diner is, there are times when you want a diner where you can eat eggs without getting sick . or shot. Little Pete's, located at 17th and Chancellor streets, provides the perfect daytime alternative to Penn's late-night favorite. Little Pete's looks like what a diner should look like.

When most Penn students think about getting a sandwich their top choices probably come down to Geno's, Pat's, or Koch's. That's a shame, because one of the best sandwiches in Philadelphia is the banh mi, or a Vietnamese hoagie offered at many small eateries.

Instead of ESPN or an intense game of Halo, the giant flat screen in the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity house living room last night featured complicated diagrams of advanced physics and descriptions of abstract string theory. Physics professor Mirjam Cvetic spoke to about 20 fraternity brothers in a presentation on the basis of string theory and her complex theoretical research on the subject.

Few Penn students are eager to trek into West Philadelphia past the safe haven of 40th Street, but for those willing to make a small trip, there are some pleasant culinary surprises. One such destination is Dock Street Brewery and Restaurant, a new eatery located in a converted firehouse at 50th Street and Baltimore Avenue.

The spiritual influence of Penn's Lubavitch leaders will soon translate into something tangible: a new home for over 100 students. The Perelman Center for Jewish Life will house the Lubavitch House at Penn, as well as the Steinhardt/Cayne Jewish Heritage Programs.

In the squad cars and on the streets, citizens try to help stop the bleeding of Philadelphia's rising murder rate.

School of Design Dean Gary Hack will leave the University this summer after finishing his twelve-year run as the school's top administrator. Engineering Dean Eduardo Glandt will serve as chairman for the committee responsible for replacing Hack, who will leave the school June 30, 2008.

On the north side of campus, things continue to go south. Sunday morning's gunfight at the corner of 38th and Chestnut streets only served to emphasize a growing trend, recognized as a mounting concern by both Penn and Philadelphia police.

Philadelphia Police officials are not investigating possible police misconduct in the death of Lamar Bembry because they have evidence showing that Bembry, who was shot and killed by police during a gun battle early Sunday morning at 38th and Chestnut streets, was among one of the shooters on the scene, said Lt.

For one Middle East expert, the conflict in the region could last for at least 30 to 40 more years. Addressing a conservative audience at the Union League of Philadelphia yesterday evening, Martin Kramer, a senior Middle East advisor to Rudy Giuliani's 2008 presidential campaign, discussed issues with current U.

Next time you reach for regular bottled water, think again - the man that started Ethos water is coming to Penn. Jonathan Greenblatt will give the keynote address on Nov. 14 as part of the University Honor Council's sixth-annual Integrity Week. Greenblatt launched the water brand on a mission to bring clean water to communities in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

Undergraduate Assembly chairman and College senior Jason Karsh led the shortest Undergraduate Assembly meeting of the semester last Sunday night in Houston Hall. n Facilities Committee co-chairwoman and College senior Sarah Abroms announced the launch of pennrecycles@gmail.

At last week's debate in West Philadelphia, mayoral candidates Michael Nutter and Al Taubenberger criticized Philadelphia's city government. They criticized Philadelphia's rising crime rates. They criticized the failing public-school system. One thing they didn't criticize? Each other.

Counseling and Psychological Services is getting a makeover. Since the Office of the Provost began a campaign three years ago to invest more funding and resources in CAPS, wait times for students and individual caseloads for staff members have decreased, and on-campus awareness campaigns have increased, CAPS director Ilene Rosenstein said.

It isn't every day that hundreds of wrestling fans cram themselves into the upper floor of the Penn Bookstore. About a hundred World Wresting Entertainment fans gathered to see Chris Jericho - wrestler turned actor, television personality, radio host, rock star and now author - at a book-signing appearance for his first book, A Lion's Tale: Around the World in Spandex.

WILMINGTON, DEL. - After three days of deliberations, jurors once again failed to deliver a verdict for accused murderer Irina Malinovskaya, leaving open the possibility of a third mistrial. Malinovskaya, a Wharton student from Russia, is being tried for bludgeoning to death her ex-lover's girlfriend in December 2004.

Batman's leaving Gotham City this Wednesday and heading over to New Jersey. He'll be joined by a slew of other superheroes, princesses and monsters. What's attracting all these oddities across the Delaware River? Candy, of course.