And you thought baking Pillsbury brownies was a piece of cake. According to the rabbinic definition of baking, you don't even need the mix. Last night, David Freidenreich, a fellow at Penn's Center for Advanced Jewish Studies, discussed a taboo against eating foods prepared by people who are not Jewish and how definitions have been changed over time, sometimes in counter-intuitive ways, to get around the custom.

Holly Kalman never thought she'd be donning a mask, goggles and gloves to help gut houses.

A fight apparently broke out near the high rise college houses last night, drawing about 20 Penn police officers and security guards to 39th Street and Locust Walk around 11 p.m.

By next fall, residents of Philadelphia will be able to surf the Web by the banks of the Schuylkill River, says the company that is installing the city's wireless system.

The year has just begun, but the Class of 2008 has already started discussing the last day of school.

After months of deliberation, the verdict on the Engineering School's accreditation status is in.

High-school juniors can exhale: Early decision at Penn is not going anywhere, the dean of admissions says.

Wharton alumnus Robert Levy and his wife Diane Levy pledged $5 million to fellowships and social-impact initiatives, University officials announced this week.

Low-income students at Columbia University will no longer have to pay back loans when they graduate, Columbia officials announced yesterday.

WILMINGTON, Del. - Erotic bedtime stories, rooftop pot-smoking sessions and suspicious phone calls were all fair game in the defense's cross-examination of Robert Bondar yesterday morning.

As the official story runs, President Bush was re-elected in 2004. But one professor has his doubts. In a speech at the Penn Bookstore last night, professor Steven Freeman said that exit polls predicted a victory for Democratic candidate John Kerry. He added that the electoral process might be to blame for the discrepancy.

Tulane sophomore Thomas Krouse is gay, and as a temporary Penn student last fall, he let the school know about it when he publicly complained that he didn't want to leave the liberal northeast for his southern home. Fast-forward to today, though, and Krouse says he could not have been more wrong.

One candidate for freshman class president can't name his counterpart in the Class of 2007, though he knows he's "a pretty sweet dude.

College junior Jose Palau spent his summer in India and Ecuador helping impoverished people get online. While many of his classmates dealt in mutual funds and money markets, he worked with one of India's major banks to help set up Internet kiosks in the south of that country.

The jury that will decide the fate of Irina Malinovskaya saw two versions of her ex-boyfriend, Robert Bondar, yesterday.

NEW ORLEANS - A crazy quilt jungle of high-fashion headwear, the French Quarter boutique Fleur de Paris is already an overwhelming place to walk into. But 2006 College alumna Miji Park got more than she bargained for last weekend when, just seconds after she strolled in the door, owner Joe Perrino burst out from behind a hat rack and told her to get out.

The Undergraduate Assembly passed a proposal Sunday night to support unionization efforts by workers on campus. The proposal, spearheaded by UA member and College sophomore Hayling Price, seeks to promote dialogue between the University and Penn security guards, who are technically employed by an outside company, about wages, training and benefits.