Five more years. The University Board of Trustees announced at its meeting on Oct. 19 that Penn President Amy Gutmann's contract has been extended for five years, securing her position as Penn's leader until 2014. The extension for Gutmann, who assumed the presidency in June 2004, comes 20 months before her contract was set to expire.

Fire alarms, a human pyramid and an almost-stolen composite picture forced Zeta Beta Tau's Halloween party to shut down early Sunday morning. Members of OZ, an underground fraternity, "caused chaos at the [ZBT] party" by forming a human pyramid while a smoke alarm was going off, said College junior and ZBT president Sam Farber.

As part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month and as a capstone to Greek Week, the Panhellenic Council sponsored the seventh annual Rena Rowan Ribbon Run yesterday. The run was a 5K route around campus that kicked off on a crisp afternoon at the Compass at 37th and Locust streets.

Costumed students returning home from a string of Halloween parties early Sunday morning were greeted by the sound of a flurry of gunshots, the result of a fight at 38th and Chestnut streets that left one man dead and two others injured.

This fall will feature a concert by a group that doesn't include a Ben or the musical stylings of college rock. The Roots, a Philadelphia-based hip-hop band, will be headlining the SPEC-TRUM fall concert at Irvine Auditorium on Nov. 6.

Jury deliberations in the murder trial of Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya came to a halt Friday morning after officials realized a serious court error had occurred. Proceedings were delayed for four and a half hours early Friday morning when it was discovered that jurors had been erroneously given court clerk's files from the past two trials, both of which ended in mistrials.

Van Pelt Library: A resource for studying, researching -and theft? The Division of Public Safety revealed last week that it is currently conducting an investigation into a rising tide of unattended theft, with a focus on crimes occurring in Van Pelt, the main library on campus.

Halfway through a Friday, the most definitive sounds along Locust Walk are those of shuffling feet and immutable construction. But for dozens of Penn's Muslim students, faculty and staff, there is a different sound ringing in their ears: the Islamic Call to Prayer.

The number of thin, white laptops around campus is about to jump - again. With today's release of Apple's newest operating system, called Mac OS X Leopard, officials expect campus orders of Apple products to increase. But overall, a potential rise is par for the course.

A West Philadelphia man was killed and two people, including one police officer, were wounded early this morning in a gunfight outside of Koko Bongo nightclub, located just off the edge of campus. Lamar Bembry, a 21-year-old resident of the 5400 block of Race Street, was shot and killed by police during the gun battle.

Facebook. Or "le livre de visage." Or maybe "das Angesichtbuch." Once the social-networking toy of American collegians, Facebook has since expanded globally. And with membership recently growing at astronomical rates in Europe and other parts of the world, users say the site has started to bridge a gap of oceanic proportions.

Are National Basketball Association referees racially biased? Business and Public Policy professor Justin Wolfers tried to answer this question in a lecture last night in Logan Hall.

The typical criteria for a business-school ranking include job placement, graduates' salaries and academic quality. But the Aspen Institute Center for Business Education set out to judge schools on a less conventional set of standards. The organization, which aims to create future business leaders who embrace social responsibilities, recently released its biannual "Beyond Grey Pinstripes" report.

While most use text-messaging for practical purposes, one man is putting the medium to a newer and more creative use. Paul Notzold, a graduate of Parsons School of Design and Technology in New York, spoke about the potential of mobile media yesterday at a packed Kelly Writers House.

The future of Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya still hangs in the balance as the jury failed to reach a verdict yesterday. Malinovskaya is charged with the murder of Temple University graduate student Irina Zlotnikov, the girlfriend of the accused's former boyfriend, Robert Bondar.

City officials seem to be giving the yellow light to development along the Schuylkill. Traffic congestion along and near the expressway is a major concern for the city, the Philadelphia Planning Commission said in a meeting last Tuesday in discussing the planned $400 million Cira Centre South development.

While students gain knowledge and skills from their professors in the classroom, they rarely have the opportunity to interact with them in a social setting. Last night, campus Greek organizations provided one such opportunity, hosting the second biannual Faculty Tea as part of Greek Week.