Many Wharton graduates go into i-banking. Others hope to make their fortune from the stock market. But one Wharton senior is looking to make money from the most basic principle of business: Wear a good suit. Alex Avendano started a custom-suit company called Henry Davidsen, and this recruiting season, he's hoping almost every Wharton undergraduate will be wearing one of his pieces.

The doorbell was set to the tune of the Star Spangled Banner. As it rang through the whole house, the fraternity brothers stopped for a moment, grinning. "Listen to that!" Engineering sophomore Alex Numann said. "We're hearing America," College junior Matt Fiedler exclaimed.

Now that the Penn College Republicans have a candidate to support, you can be sure they'll be throwing their weight behind him. Only they say they don't know much about him yet - a problem that Republican candidate Al Taubenberger will have to deal with in the coming months running in a city dominated primarily by Democrats.

Pulling up a chair at one of the long dining-room tables, Robert Engs, Princeton class of '65, sat down to enjoy a meal with some of his fellow undergrads.

The University is the most frequent violator of federal animal-abuse guidelines in the country, with 77 citations during a nine-month period, according to research watchdog group Stop Animal Exploitation Now. SAEN reported that most of Penn's violations are in three areas: veterinary care; housing, facilities and sanitation; and institutional animal care and use committees.

NATION In February 2000, student groups at colleges across the nation mobilized in protest of the Fair Labor Association. The FLA, charged with monitoring sweatshop conditions, was, in reality, made up of the companies that they were supposed to be watching.

After three rounds of debate, the Penn Democrats' choice for the next mayor of Philadelphia was clear: Michael Nutter is their man. Last night, the Penn Democrats chose to endorse the former city Councilman by a two-thirds majority. A Wharton alumnus, Nutter is one of five candidates vying for the Democratic nomination, which will be decided May 16.

A student-panel discussion on the role of international law in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, held last night in Huntsman Hall, showed that people can be controversial while still being civil. Sponsored by Penn Arab Students Society, the panel was moderated by Wharton Graduate Association President Hassan El-Houry, a second-year MBA student, and featured a diverse group of six speakers from various cultural and humanitarian groups on campus.

Imagine it's 9 a.m. Your alarm goes off to wrench you out of bed for that 9:30 recitation. You keep hitting the snooze button and next thing you know, it's 11 a.m. and the class is long over. But oversleeping no longer has to be your biggest fear. If the Undergraduate Assembly has its way, in a few months, you'll have a backup plan: iTunes U.

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.