Last night, Rodin College House residents were given specific instructions: Close the windows, shut the bedroom door, go to a lounge-less floor, and listen up. In place of the more standard fire drills, University safety officials conducted a shelter-in-place drill, in which students learned what to do in case of non-fire-related emergencies.

In Malawi, every boyfriend is a "sugar daddy" - in fact, regularly supplying one's "chibwenzi," or "friend/sexual partner," with money is not a form of prostitution but a normal and expected behavior in premarital Malawian sexual relationships. Michelle Poulin, a postdoctoral fellow in the Population Studies Center at Penn, spoke yesterday about dating and marriage in the midst of the AIDS epidemic in Africa in the McNeil Building.

Americans enjoy 1,049 rights based on marital status. But for gay Americans, the number drops. Outside of Massachusetts, gay unions throughout the country are not recognized as legal marriages. So yesterday, as a part of Freedom to Marry Day, Penn students, faculty and staff came together to try to end what some see as outright discrimination.

Two weeks after being euthanized, Barbaro is still leaving hoofprints on the New Bolton Center. Though things have begun to quiet down, gifts and donations continue to flood the Center, where Barbaro received intense medical attention for eight months.

Penn Medical School professor Stephen Emerson will be the next president of Haverford College, Haverford officials announced at a public ceremony last night. Emerson is slated to begin the presidency officially on July 1.

Former Penn professor Drew Gilpin Faust was selected as Harvard University's next president yesterday, making her the first female president in the school's 371-year history. Currently the dean of Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Faust was a History professor at Penn from 1975 to 2000, specializing in the Civil War.

On-campus recruitment season may be churning out the billionaires of tomorrow, but a sizeable number of seniors are choosing the road less traveled: the Peace Corps. Within the Ivy League, Penn produced the second-highest number of 2006 graduates to enlist in the Peace Corps - Cornell University holds first place - according to a report released by the Peace Corps at the end of last month.

The man who singlehandedly made the theory of evolution a household name when he published On the Origins of Species had his 198th birthday celebrated yesterday at the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Philadelphia residents and their families, along with Penn students and faculty, attended the annual Darwin Day, during which a Charles Darwin look-a-like greeted the public, read from his famous book and shared slices of birthday cake with attendees.

Drew Gilpin Faust is about to break new ground in Harvard University history, but her academic foundation was built deep in the stacks of Van Pelt library.

College alumnus John Legend won two Grammy awards yesterday, bringing his career total to five. Legend took home the Best Male R&B; Vocal Performance award for the second consecutive year for his song, "Heaven." He also won Best R&B; Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for "Family Affair," a tribute cover to R&B; band Sly & the Family Stone that also featured Joss Stone and Van Hunt.

Friday's men's basketball game against Dartmouth College was conspicuously different. Not because of the Quakers' huge margin of victory, or even because of Ibby Jaaber's sweet dunk, but because of some slight changes to the half-time performance. In an effort to promote school spirit, all four undergraduate class presidents participated in a half-time free-throw shoot-out as part of the first annual Clash of the Classes.

Republican Al Taubenberger's to-do list may be a little longer than that of your average mayoral candidate. Taubenberger, president of the Greater Northeast Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, became the Republican party's sole candidate to enter the upcoming election when he kicked off his campaign last week.

Penn's Mid-Atlantic Gigapop in Philadelphia - an advanced networking computer center - has connected to the Internet2 Network, University officials announced last week. Internet2, the most advanced networking center in the U.S., provides Internet to Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.

An elderly woman walked up to a policeman stationed at 46th and Market streets, reached into her purse and pulled out a handgun. Holding the weapon up to the officer, the woman - likely pushing 70 - gingerly dropped it into his hands and walked away with a pair of basketball tickets in her hand.

With students submitting the Common Application for the first time, the University saw the number of total undergraduate applicants once again reach an all-time high this year. The admissions office has received 22,427 applications, a 10-percent increase over last year's total of 20,423, according to Dean of Admissions Lee Stetson.

When Penn Law professor David Rudovsky walked through a Philadelphia prison this summer, he was disgusted by what he saw - severe overcrowding, prisoners without access to showers and inadequate medical care, among other issues. So Rudovsky did what any lawyer does best - he filed a lawsuit.

Harvard University will likely appoint former Penn professor Drew Faust as its next president this weekend, according to The Harvard Crimson. Citing three unidentified sources, the Crimson reported yesterday that Faust, currently the dean of Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will be named as the university's first female president Sunday.