Next semester, some students at Southern California's Pepperdine University might be taking classes next to their moms.

Wharton MBA students Himanshu Agarwal and Pranjal Shah are members of a team selected as a finalist for JPMorgan's Good Venture competition. The Good Venture competition asks participating undergraduate and graduate teams of up to four members to choose an existing philanthropic non-profit organization to champion.

It's every Penn girl's dream. Jonathan Safran Foer peers out from behind trendy square-rimmed glasses, smiles and serves you delicious Jewish food. Wake up, and head over to 38th and Spruce streets. Nissim Agiv does wear Dolce & Gabbana glasses; he does serve dishes like shish kebob and matzo ball soup.

Eleven members of the Granny Peace Brigade/Philadelphia are set to go on trial on Dec. 1.

A select few members of the Class of 2011 will have the chance to earn extra honors for their community-service work. The University will announce today the creation of the Civic Scholars Program, an academically based service program that will begin with the Class of 2011.

The Nursing Education Building will be officially renamed for Dean Emerita Claire Fagin at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on Nov. 30.

A student committee has chosen either Google or Microsoft to serve as the new host for Penn Webmail - but they're not saying which one. The students on the Computing Advisory Board are keeping mum because their decision has yet to clear with University administrators.

College senior Jen Jablow will be spending her last semester at Penn fulfilling her writing requirement.

Another woman has allegedly been attacked by a man wielding a screwdriver, Penn safety officials say, bringing the total number of West Philadelphia screwdriver robberies to eight.

University President Amy Gutmann's last big bash at 3812 Walnut St. - the stately "President's Mansion" - turned into a public-relations nightmare after she posed in a photograph with a student dressed as a suicide bomber. But Gutmann's staff didn't skip a beat, and they're already busy planning the next student soiree, Dec.

Police believe that one individual may be responsible for a slew of sexual assaults and robberies of women that have recently occurred in the area east of Penn's campus, as well as one outside Franklin Field. At least four women have reported being sexually assaulted and robbed east of the Schuylkill River since Nov.

Gov. Ed Rendell, a Penn graduate, has named Criminology professor Lawrence Sherman to the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency. Sherman is the director of the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology and serves as president of the International Society of Criminology in Paris.

Penn's Division of Public Safety has announced that it will resume releasing crime victims' specific affiliations with the University. The division had decided earlier this year to only indicate whether crime victims are affiliated with the University, ceasing to distinguish between students, faculty and staff members.

Affiliates of the University gave more money than all but four other groups within the education industry during the 2006 election cycle at $196,395, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Ninety-four percent of donations were to Democrats. The University of California, Harvard University and the Apollo Group were the only organizations whose members and employees gave more than Penn.

Over 60 SAC groups are currently in the red.

Walnut Street's '4021 Club' offers recovering alcoholics a place to find support - and friends.