Penn may have slipped to 7th in the U.S. News and World Report rankings, but the University's perfect "gay point average" places it at the top of an altogether different list.

Tabard and Owls not secret enough for you? Check out an ancient enclave of the famous Freemasons at the Grand Masonic Lodge Temple in Philadelphia. Located across the street from City Hall at 1 North Broad St., the temple is one of three of its size in the world, said Andrew Zellers-Frederick, executive director of the Masonic Library and Museum of Pennsylvania

WILMINGTON, Del. - State prosecutors worked to recreate the scene of the crime for jurors yesterday in opening their first-degree murder case against Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya.

Here's a new spin on university rankings: Apparently, the best schools are the ones with champion ultimate-frisbee teams.

Facebook.com is feeling some growing pains. The site will soon be open to anyone with an e-mail address, and college students have mixed feelings.

The United States boasts the world's largest economy, its strongest army and perhaps the most diverse population in the world. But when it comes to its citizens graduating from college, America can't claim any similar superlative. The United States has slipped behind other nations in the numbers of students who finish their degrees, according to a report released by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, a California-based think tank.

Tired of plain-old gas-fueled buses, some are advocating that SEPTA consider a new source of fuel - farm waste.

Hispanic Magazine has rated the University fifth in the nation for Hispanic students. The magazine measured selectivity, graduation rates, student-to-faculty ratios, Hispanic enrollment, cultural programs and organizations, the percentage of Hispanic faculty and the percentage of students receiving financial aid.

Stronger community service efforts, improved curricula at local schools and a diverse student body may sound like Christmas in September for many West Philadelphia residents. But such may be the benefit of letting teenagers study what they love, Penn officials say, adding that the ripple effects of a new internationally themed high school in the area could reach beyond the schoolhouse walls and into the surrounding community.

One hundred University employees are about to become eligible to get a pillbox they won't have to worry about misplacing. Employees with chronic health conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure, or high cholesterol will receive access to a Med-eMonitor System that will alert them when it is time to take medications and tell them how to follow their health care plans.

Finals week usually brings stress, headaches and sleep deprivation, but for Laura Salcido, it was a time to celebrate.

While earning praise from many in higher education as well as newspapers' editorial pages, Harvard University's plan to eliminate its early-action program has left the students who will be actually be affected less than unanimous in their endorsement. The new policy - which Harvard has said is intended to allow lower-income students to compare financial aid packages without being at a disadvantage to students who apply early - will go into effect for the Class of 2012 with a single application deadline on Jan.

No, College Hall was not on fire. The crowd of firefighters and Penn Public Safety officials on College Green yesterday were assembled to perform several demonstrations as part of Campus Fire Safety and Emergency Preparedness Month.

After a long night of filling out job applications, Engineering senior Jonathan Lehr sat down at 1 a.m. yesterday morning to play some good, old-fashioned video games with his three roommates. "Who's player one? 'Cause I just [expletive] you up," Lehr yelled at his roommates as all of them played the first-person-shooter game Perfect Dark.

Featuring anacondas, leeches, screams of both pain and euphoria and a great deal of vomit, the movie Jackass: Number Two lived up to the raucous reputation of the series - and then some. The Social Planning and Events Committee Film Society held a sneak preview of the second installment of Jackass: The Movie yesterday at Annenberg's Zellerbach Theatre.

In a few months, all that will remain of the old Hillel building, a dilapidated brick structure in the center of campus, are photographs, a plaque on the wall of Steinhardt Hall and the memories of alumni and former staff - bad and good.

By Francesca Heintz The Daily Pennsylvanian Jurors in the first-degree murder trial of Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya had not been selected as of noon yesterday, but the trial is still scheduled to begin today, a spokeswoman for the district attorney said in the late afternoon.