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.

Sure, you might down shots on New Year's Eve - but Thanksgiving? Strange, but true: For bars and clubs across Philadelphia, Thanksgiving Eve is one of the most hopping partying opportunities of the year, with people reuniting with old friends and family in their hometowns.

No Penn student won a Rhodes scholarship this year, and the loss may be part of a larger decline of the Ivy League monopoly on major international awards. While Penn succeeded in sending 4 students -- out of a total of 32 Penn applicants - to the finals of the U.

University President Amy Gutmann's $150,000 gift for financial aid may seem modest compared to the millions trustees donate, but seasoned fundraisers say it will likely inspire others to give - just like Gutmann wanted.

Four college-age women have been robbed at the point of a screwdriver near campus in the past two weeks, prompting public safety officials to issue a warning to students. The first such robbery occurred Nov. 9, officials say. DPS issued a crime alert about the cases yesterday, asking students to come forward with any information they have.