BLACKSBURG, Va. - Throughout silence and cheers, thousands of candles lit the night sky at Virginia Polytechnic Institute Drill Field.

Theft Apr. 12 - A female student, 28, reported that her chained bicycle was removed from Vance Hall, located at 3733 Spruce St. Apr. 11 - A female student, 20, reported that while in a dark-room in Addams Hall, located at 200 S. 36th St., her wallet was removed from her unsecured backpack at about 8:40 p.

Former assistant district attorney Susan Herron will become the next director of Penn's Office of Student Conduct, Provost Ronald Daniels announced last week. She will assume the post on July 1. The OSC is in charge of confidentially investigating and resolving student violations of Penn's conduct code, including issues of academic integrity and substance abuse.

In an effort to learn more about human sacrificies in ancient Mesopotamia, Anthropology graduate student Aubrey Baadsgaard and other Penn scholars drove female human remains from the Penn Museum of Archaelogy and Anthopology to HUP yesterday to perform CAT scans, according to an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

The Wharton School of Business will now offer a doctoral fellowship in business ethics, Wharton officials announced Friday. The fellowship, officially titled the Lewis Platt Doctoral Fellowship in Business Ethics, is intended to fund students in Wharton's Ph.

Researchers at the School of Medicine have found that a drug used to treat multiple sclerosis patients may also help vision loss in those with the relapsing form of the disease, according to a press release. Natalizumab is a drug that slows the disability and reduces relapse rates of multiple sclerosis patients.

The College of Arts and Sciences is about to get a bit trendier. At least, its Web site is. A redesigned College Web site will launch in early July, right in time for incoming College freshman to begin exploring their options at Penn. New changes include quick links and information presented in formats that are more easily digestible than long bodies of text.

The Division of Public Safety released yesterday the final report of its investigation of last month's alleged racial profiling incident, concluding that the officers involved acted properly and according to procedure and that no racial profiling occurred.

When Virginia Tech sophomore Ashley Roe left school yesterday, the campus, normally bustling with 26,000 students, was "a ghost town." "There was a line of police cars, and they were talking to people trying to enter the campus," she said. Yesterday morning, in the deadliest gun massacre in U.

In the wake of shootings on the Virginia Tech campus, Vice President of Public Safety Maureen Rush called for better communication and improved student preparedness as the best way to ensure safety if a similar incident were to occur on campus. Thirty-two people were killed before an unidentified gunman took his own life yesterday at the rural Virginia campus in the worst mass shooting in United States history.

In the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings yesterday, the obvious question being asked on college campuses across the country is, what if it happened here? One of the principle steps the Penn Police took years ago - even before the Columbine attacks in 1998 - to deal with the potential of this type of attack was creating a SWAT team, officially called the Emergency Response Team.

The State of New York announced plans yesterday to address the conflicts of interest in the student-loan industry, according to an online MSNBC report. Lenders would be prohibited from offering financial benefits such as referral fees, gifts or trips to university employees.

An alleged carjacker was shot twice and killed during a struggle with Penn Police at about 11:00 a.m. yesterday near 40th and Spruce streets.

Ever had a police officer bring you chicken soup when you were sick? If Penn Police Chief Mark Dorsey and Vice President of the Division of Public Safety Maureen Rush had their way, you just might. Dorsey and Rush, who worked together for the City of Philadelphia before Dorsey became chief in November 2004, call themselves neighborhood people - and they want to do their part to bridge the gap between the Penn and West Philadelphia communities.

The University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy and Practice will host a symposium next week to address ways for charitable donors to assess whether they are, in fact, affecting their designated causes. Former Penn President Judith Rodin will deliver the keynote speech of the "Benjamin Franklin Leadership Symposium.

Today is the deadline for the second-annual GAPSA-Provost's Award for Interdisciplinary Innovation. The two-year-old award, a summer fellowship jointly sponsored by the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly and the Office of the University Provost, consists of a $2,000 monthly summer stipend for graduate and professional students who are pursuing interdisciplinary research.

Joseph Fischer spent 27 years working for the Philadelphia Police, mostly investigating homicides. By 1998, he had qualified for retirement and a pension and was ready to move on. "You handle 1,200 homicides, I guess you figure you've seen them all," he said.