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.

Study-abroad participation at Penn was the seventh highest among American colleges last year, according to a report released last week. The University jumped five spots - from No. 12 to No. 7 - in the annual study-abroad participation ranking by the Institute for International Education, which promotes educational ties between the United States and foreign countries.

Penn researchers have established that while men are subjected to more traumatic events, women are more likely to be diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. David Tolin of the Institute of Living and Psychiatry professor Edna Foa reviewed 290 studies conducted between 1980 and 2005 to determine whether men or women were more likely to experience potentially traumatic events and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Nelson Pavlovsky says culture should come from the bottom up - and that intellectual property rights keep it from happening. Pavlovsky, a Swarthmore College undergraduate and founder of FreeCulture.org, gave a talk before a small number of students and faculty in the Class of 1938 Lounge in Kings Court/English House yesterday.

As holiday mascots go, Christmas has Santa Claus, Valentine's Day has Cupid and New Student Orientation has Troy Majnerick.

Chaka Fattah has officially put himself on next year's mayoral ballot, and he'll likely have more company there soon.

When asked about the snowflake lanterns that line the tops of trees on Locust Walk, College sophomore Jordan Cohen's face lights up.