This is a takeout campus, not a restaurant campus. We've got Qdoba, the Greek Lady and food trucks galore.

Both Cuban and American, Achy Obejas says she still has a firm sense of identity. And countries, as well as people, need to reconcile contradicting images of themselves, she says. The writer spoke yesterday afternoon at the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center in the Carriage House about identity and its implications in society.

Yesterday was the last day for voter registration in Pennsylvania, and Penn groups will soon see whether their efforts to bolster the student electorate paid off. While an official count is not yet available, elections experts say that voter registration is generally up in Philadelphia, but not as significantly as during a presidential election year.

Former Penn Anthropology professor Arjun Appadurai challenged America's top research universities to redefine themselves yesterday. The past three decades have brought a knowledge explosion, Appadurai said, and that revolution and its digitization have diluted the university's role as a place for research.

Dim-sum is unlike any eating experience you have at a typical restaurant, a chaotic yet gratifying experience.

Maybe it's the lucky number. Or maybe it's the all-natural ingredients. Maybe it's the skill of chef/owner Michael O'Halloran.

Students rushing to class may find it just a little less arduous to navigate Locust Walk, if the Undergraduate Assembly has its way. At last Sunday's meeting, the UA passed a proposal - spearheaded by Nursing junior Alexandra Kotsovos - to urge the University to start fixing the many problems that they believe plague Locust Walk.

Jurors will likely decide the fate of Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya sometime today, lawyers say.

Some Penn students thrive on cheesesteaks and chili fries, and Penn Dining - let alone the city Health Department - doesn't seem to have any plans to stop them. But some government officials are on a hunt to remove the unhealthiest of fats from their citizens' diets.

In 1993, George Anastasia says, Philadelphia mob boss John Stanfa ordered his death. The plan was supposedly to throw grenades through the windows of Anastasia's New Jersey home. However, his life was saved when his would-be killers landed behind bars before they had a chance to whack him.

If studying for midterms makes you want to go out and splurge on expensive clothing or gadgets, you may be more than simply a procrastinator. A recent study suggests that 5 percent of Americans are compulsive buyers, meaning they frequently purchase items they do not need or want.

Bill Berner compares himself to Igor, the famed lab assistant to Dr. Frankenstein. Both toil in windowless basement laboratories - though Berner's is in David Rittenhouse Laboratory, not Bavaria. Berner, like Igor, concocts things that buzz, fizz and bang, although the professors he works with aren't insane; they're in Penn's Physics department.

This year, budding entrepreneurs competing for thousands of dollars worth of prizes in the Wharton Business Plan Competition need to fulfill an additional criterion - they must be Indian. The annual competition - which usually requires that candidates be affiliated with the University - recently teamed up with a leading Indian newspaper to offer the same entrepreneurial opportunities to Indian college students.

A quick fix for Penn InTouch isn't going to make class registration any easier, officials say, but neither will just talking about it. Penn InTouch has been under heightened scrutiny since last month, when Engineering and Wharton senior Danny Panzer released ClassBuster, a computer program that notifies users when space in a closed-out class opens up.

Just as a rubber bracelet fad struck America a few years ago, terra cotta ornaments were all the range in ancient India, one anthropologist says. University of California at Los Angeles professor Monica Smith used colorful PowerPoint slides to discuss the findings from her excavation of the ancient Indian city of Sisupalgarh yesterday in the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - On Saturday night, Harold Ford Jr. was in fine form. Saturday marked the first debate in the Tennessee Senate race - a race that may decide which party controls the Senate come January - and Ford, the Democrat and a 1992 College graduate, certainly had his own style.

In certain respects, Ben Eithun is the typical all-American jock - he stands 6 feet 4 inches, weighs 265 pounds and was once a lineman for his football team at Edgewood College. But one thing separates him from the rest of the pack: He is a male nurse.