Students will now be informed by Penn InTouch if the course in which they are attempting to enroll requires a permit. This is a minor change that will address a long-standing complaint, according to University Registrar Ron Sanders. Previously, no notification was given and students' requests were occasionally deleted at the end of Advance Registration because they had not known to provide the required permit.

Wharton students will have the chance this fall to show off their business skills at the largest global-development organization in the world - the United Nations. But the students will be the ones doing the grading. As part of Management 353 - also known as the Wharton Field Challenge, a course started by professor Keith Weigelt - the U.

HUP first in Phila. to adopt imaging system The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania has become the city's first hospital to use a new type of imaging technology that can provide detailed, 3-D images of patients' hearts. Because the computing tomography technology is faster, it can take a more accurate picture of the heart - which is constantly in motion.

Ex-Wharton professor Scott Ward pled not guilty yesterday to charges of producing, importing and possessing child pornography.

It may be a long shot to turn an idea into a marketable product, but that should not be a deterrent to student innovators, a panel concluded yesterday. In front of an audience of about 40 in Skirkanich Hall's Berger Auditorium, panelists discussed how innovators can improve their odds of success as they take their ideas to the marketplace.

At least it doesn't seem to be as bad as that "water buffalo" incident.

The Halloween snapshot that's been plaguing Penn President Amy Gutmann is even the talk of the White House. Well, some reporters are trying to make it that way. White House spokesman Tony Snow deflected questions about the now-infamous photograph at a press conference yesterday, a White House transcript shows.

It might have seemed like early admissions was toast after the University of Virginia, a public school, followed Harvard and Princeton in abolishing the practice this fall.

Best-selling author Jonathan Safran Foer doesn't particularly enjoy the process of writing. "I don't love writing. I just don't," he said. "Writing is a little like pulling a tooth - out of your penis." Foer, author of Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, put in double-duty last night, attending a dinner organized by Fisher-Hassenfeld College House before making an appearance at the Penn Bookstore.

When Penn alumnus Marco Lentini first thought of developing a health-conscious cafe near campus, he says people thought he was crazy. "Philadelphia had just been ranked the fattest city in the world," Lentini said. "But it takes leadership to transcend boundaries and come up with new ideas.

University officials still haven't decided which company, Microsoft Corp. or Google Inc., will replace Penn's current Webmail service. Officials said earlier this year that they would select a company to host all undergraduate e-mail accounts by about this time, at the latest.

Whether it's going to college or getting a job, high-school graduation usually means more freedom. But for Engineering exchange student Weijie Poh and College sophomore Shijie Lu, the end of high school was the beginning of a grueling stint in the Singapore Armed Forces.

Former U.S. Army Chaplain James Yee was told he was being given a two-week break from working at Guantanamo Bay, the U.S. naval base in Cuba where war on terror detainees are held. When he arrived in Florida, his bags were searched and he became a prisoner like those he had preached to, held at a super-maximum security prison in Charleston, N.

The Undergraduate Assembly prides itself on representing the concerns of Penn students. But the survey data that help them do so may only represent students with a specific agenda, experts say. The UA distributes several online surveys each semester - there have been two this fall - to the entire undergraduate population via e-mail and the UA's own Web site.

Whether you want to make your own sushi or play out your Antiques Roadshow dreams, head to Old City near the Delaware River this weekend. The Old City Business Association will offer family-oriented activities, promotions and how-to workshops sponsored by Old City restaurants, galleries and retailers as part of the area's fall festival, from 11 a.

An estimated 10 million Americans under the age of 30 cast their votes in Tuesday's mid-term elections, 2 million more than in 2002. High voting rates on Penn's campus reflected this trend. According to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, which studies voting among the young and reported these preliminary data, youth voting increased by 4 percentage points from the previous mid-term election.

Few students would want to go back to eating lunch at their elementary-school cafeterias. But that is exactly what Jan Poppendieck does. A professor of sociology at Hunter College, a part of the City University of New York, Poppendieck studies poverty, hunger and food assistance in the United States.