Aspiring business professionals packed into the University City Sheraton yesterday evening for Wharton Women's Annual Dinner, which featured Macy's, Inc. Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Karen Hoguet as the keynote speaker. Participants had an opportunity to network with representatives from over 25 financial-services, consulting and marketing companies, which distributed business cards and accepted resumes.

As the postal-lands purchase neared closing and University officials began to construct their plans for the PennConnects eastward expansion projects, student and faculty groups were eager to have their say in the future of the campus.

Is hip hop dead? If so, The Roots sure made it seem otherwise. With a set list ranging from new songs to covers, the Grammy Award-nominated, Philadelphia-based hip-hop band played to a sold-out crowd of students and area residents last night at the fall SPEC-TRUM concert in Irvine Auditorium.

Once in last place in the polls for the Democratic primary, Michael Nutter was officially voted Philadelphia's next mayor yesterday, garnering a record-breaking 83 percent of the vote with 97 percent of precincts reporting.

Students will soon get to put their names on a new slew of listservs - and maybe get more involved on campus, too. Next semester, the Student Activities Council will put on the first-ever Spring Activities Fair, where representatives from at least 180 groups will recruit members and advertise upcoming events.

For aspiring entrepreneurs, the tips that Andrew McKelvey, ex-CEO of Monster.com, offered last evening covered everything from the sacrifices an innovator must make to succeed to how to make success a reality. About 80 students attend McKelvey's lecture yesterday evening in Houston Hall.

Summary of crime in the Penn patrol area.

WILMINGTON, Del. - The jury in the murder trial of Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya has still not reached a verdict, and attorneys familiar with the trial say the length of deliberations is unprecedented in Delaware murder cases. Today, the jury enters its tenth day of trying to determine the guilt or innocence of Malinovskaya, who is accused of bludgeoning Temple University graduate student Irina Zlotnikov to death in Dec.

Penn isn't the only school in the area with dreams of a bigger campus. As the University gears up to begin its long-awaited expansion onto the postal lands, two other major Philadelphia universities are also in the midst of multi-million dollar capital campaigns designed to fund ambitious campus expansion.

It's a bird! It's a plane! No - it's an XXY Supermale attempting to evade a crime based on his genome. Paul Appelbaum, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, lectured on behavioral genetics and its relation to crime last night in Houston Hall. And no, the "Supermale" claim will not prove insanity in a court of law.

Whenever a high-profile controversy emerges among student groups, one organization is almost always involved: the Undergraduate Assembly. Over the last few years, the UA's role in mediating student conflicts has increased significantly, with student leaders often turning to the UA for help when trying to reach a compromise.

For a person with just over 8 percent of support in the polls, Republican mayoral candidate Al Taubenberger is remarkably optimistic. "I'd say I have about a 50-50 shot," he says. "For one thing, I'm going to do a lot better than the last poll indicated." Optimism seems to define the plucky, enthusiastic candidate, who will square off today against Democratic nominee Michael Nutter.

There are no national contests. The mayor's race is a foregone conclusion. It's Election Day - but you may not know it.

The Undergraduate Assembly traveled across campus to Harrison Rooftop Lounge on Sunday night, where pizza and cookies were provided in an effort to attract students. The meeting, moved for the night as part of UA Cross Campus, focused on a number of initiatives aimed to better on- and off-campus student activities.

Developers are notorious for replacing community centers with shopping malls, but Jonathan Rose wants to change that. Rose and Whitney Foutzis, of the planning and development conglomerate Jonathan Rose Companies LLC, spoke to City and Regional Planning students at the School of Design last night about rebuilding cities with a revolutionary set of principles.

With responsibility for raising $310 million of the University's $3.5 billion capital campaign, Penn's six resource centers are charged with making a significant contribution. But undergraduate and graduate schools, for example, have loyal alumni with incentives to give - how do you fundraise when you don't have an obvious constituency? At the six centers - the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, Penn Athletics, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Penn Libraries, the Morris Arboretum and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology - development directors are faced with this challenge as they try to mobilize their constituents to reach campaign goals.

WILMINGTON, Del. - After eight days of deliberations, the jury still has yet to render a verdict on the first-degree murder charges against Irina Malinovskaya. Malinovskaya, a Wharton student, allegedly bludgeoned to death her ex-boyfriend Robert Bondar's girlfriend, Temple University student Irina Zlotnikov, at Bondar's New Castle, Del.