Joseph Cho, a second-year law student who faces charges of attempted murder, has been deemed incompetent to stand trial, according to Cho's lawyer, Peter Bowers. Cho, 31, is currently awaiting transportation to an in-patient medical facility where he will undergo further evaluation and treatment for an undetermined amount of time, Bowers said.

The preliminary hearing for the Troy Brown, the "screwdriver bandit," was postponed yesterday following the arrest of his attorney. Larry Charles, Brown's lawyer, was found naked with his 14-year-old goddaughter on Jan. 15 in the Philadelphia Criminal Justice Center in Center City and charged with statutory sexual assault, Philadelphia Police Department officials said.

He calls it Campusdock, but potential users might begin to refer to it as "Greg's List." Last month, Wharton junior Greg Morillo started Campusdock.com, a site that students can use to do everything from selling books and furniture to finding job and house listings.

"A great American city is literally fighting for survival." And Marc Morial, the former Mayor of New Orleans, is urging Penn students to help rebuild the city in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The 1980 College alumna asked students how they "wanted to be counted," challenging their participation in community outreach.

Though the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board has finally released its reasoning behind the casino process, the anti-casino movement just keeps gathering steam. The board, in a 113-page decision released Feb. 1, explained why it chose the SugarHouse and Foxwoods casino plans, citing their location and potential benefit to the community as reasons why they were selected over three other designs.

For East Asian Languages and Civilizations professor Nancy Steinhardt, a Yuan Dynasty building is not simply wood and stone. "It's a living scene that encompasses all aspects of life and class struggle in 13th-Century China," she says. That passion for Chinese architecture gave the National Endowment for Humanities reason enough to give Steinhardt a $24,000 grant last month, one of only 288 grants awarded across the country.

Joseph Cho, the second-year Penn Law student who faces attempted murder charges, will find out today in a preliminary hearing if his case will move to trial.

Burglary Jan. 29 - A staff member reported that several offices near 40th and Chestnut streets were forcibly entered and ransacked by an unknown suspect, and that one office had about $100 removed. Theft Feb. 4 - A student reported that, during a disturbance at Philly Diner, her purse - containing goods worth about $300 - was stolen by an unknown person at about 3:30 a.

Wharton sophomore Leonid Markel scratched his head and laughed at the Web site's mistake: Wikipedia.org had incorrectly listed President George Bush as the Republican Party's general chairman. But it wouldn't have been so funny if that "fact" had ended up in a Political Science paper.

Think about a time and place in which you feel the most comfortable. Now imagine being taken out of this comfort zone for four years. Don't like it? Well, unfortunately, that's how many African American students say they often feel at predominantly white colleges.

One asthma workshop has quickly turned into the possibility of a larger project to improve health and well being at a West Philadelphia high school. Last year, College juniors Amanda Rubenstein and Rachel Conrad co-founded the Active Asthma Workshop, which sends Penn students to Sayre High School at 58th and Walnut streets to promote awareness about asthma and general health and nutrition.

Penn president signs sustainability pledge Penn President Amy Gutmann has signed the American College and University Climate Commitment in an effort to combat global warming, University officials announced on Monday. As a result of this pledge, Penn will develop a far-reaching plan that will entail reducing campus greenhouse-gas emissions and countering emissions from other places.

By joe vester Staff Writer jvester@sas.upenn.edu You may think cell phones are just for talking, but they could soon be used for tackling crime as well. On Jan. 23, the Philadelphia City Council paved the way for a system that will allow the public to send photographs from their cell phones to 911.

Zoom in on the 'LOVE' statue. Double-click on Van Pelt. Then build it all over again. Google Earth - a computer mapping program through which users can view satellite images of Earth - recently launched a contest in which college students can design a virtual campus to match their own school's.

The University's endowment ballooned 21.6 percent to $5.3 billion in the past fiscal year, making Penn's rate of endowment growth the highest in the Ivy League, a recent higher-education survey revealed. University officials say this year's boost is the result of shrewd strategies in investment, fundraising and internal reallocation of funds from Penn's Health Systems to the endowment - a stockpile of funds reserved for costs like financial aid and research.

Total crime for the University Police Department patrol zone rose two percent in the month of January, compared to January 2006, Divison of Public Safety officials said yesterday. Robbery, burglary and aggravated assault all decreased compared to the same month last year, while thefts and simple assaults were up.

The University has received a $2 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles, officials announced yesterday. The grant will be used for studying the basic cell biology of Parkinson's disease. The project involves an interdisciplinary team of researchers from Penn's Genomics Institute, including molecular biologist James Eberwine, computational scientist Junhyong Kim and imaging experts Philip Haydon and Jai-Yoon Sul.