Like many students, Nursing sophomore Jessica Plantulli loves her coffee - especially late at night. But unless she learns to brew her own, getting a latte after 1 a.m. might be a bit of a problem.

A proposed federal database for tracking college students could ease the application process and make institutions more accountable - but some say it will come at the cost of student privacy. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings announced the creation of such a database as one of her priorities last week.

The Class of 2007 is working hard to leave its mark on the University. And if you've seen seniors walking around campus with bright green T-shirts, then you know how they're planning to do it. The shirts are part of an advertising campaign for the Senior Class Gift Drive, a campaign to get every senior to donate money to Penn.

Assault Sept. 30 - An assault at the McDonald's located 3935 Walnut St. resulted in one arrest after a fight between a customer and worker. The customer allegedly went behind the counter and punched the McDonald's employee in the face. Robbery Sept. 25 - Three men were arrested for allegedly attempting to take a cell phone from a person unaffiliated with the University at 3400 Market St.

Danny Panzer is coming clean in exchange for what he hopes will be a ticket to fame - and ultimately fortune - from publicity in as many as 350 newspapers around the globe.

Gathered around a lectern that resembled an oversized electrical outlet, the members of the University City Lighting Consortium prepared to celebrate creating a brighter, safer Philadelphia. "Let this be a neighborhood where the streets have no closing time," Penn President Amy Gutmann said.

For Penn's new top Facilities official, rebuilding lower Manhattan after Sept. 11 has been good preparation for rebuilding University City. From the vast physical size of the projects to the amount of public scrutiny she will likely face, the similarities between memorializing Ground Zero and redeveloping University City are numerous, said Anne Papageorge, who starts at Penn Oct.

Award-winning writer Paul LaFarge introduced his audience to a metaphysical world of talking rabbits, boys gluing themselves to dead girls' bodies and women marrying chairs last night. Those gathered in the Kelly Writers House listened intently as they learned about Paul Poissel, the obscure 19th-century French writer who created these bizarre images in his novel The Facts of Winter, which LaFarge translated.

On-campus recruiting is in full force this month, and about 300 business organizations have booked dozens of rooms in Huntsman Hall, interviewing Penn students for jobs. And each year, more and more of those eager interviewees haven't studied finance or management - they've studied art history or comparative literature.

If you've been walking around the city during the past 11 days, you may end up seeing yourself on the silver screen in March. Shooter, a new film by Paramount Pictures, finished filming in Philadelphia yesterday. Several scenes were shot in Penn's backyard.

WILMINGTON, Del. - A crowded courtroom watched yesterday as an intense exchange unfolded between Irina Malinovskaya and the state prosecutor conducting her cross-examination.

Penn wants to build bridges to Center City, but Philadelphia will have to destroy one first. At a conference held at World Cafe Live last week, University President Amy Gutmann said that part of Penn's east campus plan includes making the Walnut and South Street bridges "more attractive and functional.

Tickets are selling out fast for this week's fall concert featuring alternative pop artist Rufus Wainwright. So far, 900 of the available 1,100 tickets to Friday's concert in Irvine Auditorium have been sold.

MySpace.com wants you to "Declare Yourself." The social-networking Web site, which boasts more than 114 million users, joined its competitor Facebook.com in trying to increase voter awareness by setting up its own voter-registration page last week. The new feature of MySpace allows users to enter their zip code and personal information, after which they receive a registration form to print and send to local election officials.

Online degrees usually don't carry much weight in the business world, but one new program promises to be different. At least, its creators are. Newsweek magazine and test-preparation company Kaplan are teaming up to create what the organizations believe is the first Internet-based business program run by a magazine.

Since blogging began, outrageous claims and personal dramas have made their way onto the Internet for all to read. But when university faculty members are the bloggers, they're sometimes finding themselves in hot water. At a number of schools around the country, personal Web logs are getting professors - and the administrators they write about - into trouble, raising questions of exactly how much freedom of speech the Internet allows.

Missed meetings, apologetic phone calls and an ex-girlfriend's curiosity about seeing her replacement were the focus of the defense's direct examination of Irina Malinovskaya yesterday.