Any opportunity you give him, this prominent former businessman will be quick to note that Philadelphia is like something out of A Tale of Two Cities.

As the dust surrounding Penn's revenue sharing agreement with Citibank settles, students seem to be ultimately coming out on top.

The Nominations and Elections Committee elected its new leadership last night through an internal elections process. The new positions are as follows: n Chairman: College junior Dan Strigenz. n Vice chairwoman for Elections: College junior Colleen Donovan.

The Undergraduate Assembly gathered Monday night for the last official meeting of the year. During the meeting, where two substantial proposals regarding student life and climate neutrality were passed, attendance dwindled to only 50 percent of the body. The two proposals are as follows: n One, authored by College junior Ashish Bhumbla, suggested major changes to Student Health Services.

Throughout his career, Evans says he has "led the charge" to improve city services and make Philadelphia safer.

Imagine spending 17 and a half years on death row - and being innocent. For Harold Wilson, this nightmare was a reality when he was wrongfully convicted of murder as a 23 year old in 1988. All eyes were focused on Wilson as he talked about his experience on Pennsylvania's death row Monday afternoon in Silverman Hall.

Last week's discovery that an employee at the Au Bon Pain in Huntsman Hall is wanted in connection with a Southwest Philadelphia homicide and was previously convicted for attempted murder will coincide with the expanded use of background checks for applicants at Penn Business Services' contracted vendors.

Looks like it's out with the old - and out with the Nu. After a few incidents at a Sigma Nu-sponsored party this weekend at Club 27 downtown, the IFC announced on Monday that it would be suspending the fraternity's charter indefinitely and that they would lose their house at 38th and Walnut streets at the end of the semester.

In the wake of strong pressure from disgruntled students and alumni, University officials have revoked their invitation to former Secretary of State James Baker to speak at this year's Commencement.

Penn's Division of Public Safety will no longer release any information regarding crimes that occur in the Penn Police patrol zone, DPS officials announced yesterday. The move will make it impossible for anyone outside DPS to know when crimes are committed or track trends and statistics concerning area crime.

After deadlocking in negotiations with Google and Microsoft to replace the aging Webmail system, Penn administrators have finally found a solution. By next semester, Webmail will be gone for good, replaced by an innovative new system hosted by Western Union.

Robb. Ward. McIntosh. The terrific trio - one part accused murder, one part child pornographer and one part sexual offender - is coming back to campus to teach Penn students, O.J. Simpson-style. The Criminology department has sponsored a symposium, to be held next Thursday, that will feature the three embattled professors' thoughts on the art of not getting caught.

This may be more than just a drive-thru experience for actor Kal Penn. Penn, already slated to teach two undergraduate courses in the University's Asian American Studies Program for the spring 2008 semester, will now replace Fred Scatena as the Department Chair of Earth and Environmental Science.

Forget about the "Screwdriver man." Last night, a female College sophomore was held up on the 4200 block of Spruce Street at point-of-crayon, Division of Public Safety officials said. The student was walking home at around 9 p.m. when she was confronted by a short child holding a crayon.

Drew Gilpin Faust is set to take the reigns as Harvard University's 28th president this summer, but whether she will also become the institution's first female president is now less certain. In confidential documents obtained by The Daily Pennsylvanian, several members of Harvard's Board of Overseers called Faust's gender into question.

Come Friday, Spring Fling concertgoers will get the chance to "Fight the Power" with one of hip hop's seminal groups. SPEC Concerts announced last night that Public Enemy, the politically charged rap group founded by Flavor Flav and Chuck D, will be co-headlining with Ben Folds at this years Fling Concert.

Irina Malinovskaya, the Wharton undergraduate currently awaiting a third trial for murder, has been put on academic release and will continue her studies at Penn.