The Upper Quadrangle was evacuated Thursday night because of a bomb scare, though there turned out to be no threat. At about 7 p.m., SEPTA police investigated a suspicious package on Woodland Walk outside of the 37th Street trolley station.

Penn faculty revived a protest technique time-honored on college campuses last night: They staged a teach-in. For the second of three evenings, Penn Faculty & Staff Against the War on Iraq sought to make their case about the current conflict by turning the Huntsman Hall basement into an antiwar event after normal business hours ended.

WILMINGTON, Del. - State prosecutors presented the available forensic and DNA evidence in the trial of Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya yesterday -- but there was not much to show. Yet prosecutors say there has been more emphasis on verbal testimony than on DNA because Malinovskaya, who is charged with first-degree murder, tried to leave the scene without a trace.

Students see a useful tool, administrators see a potential problem, and some entrepreneurs think they've found a very profitable idea.

The Jewish high holidays are a major fund-raising event for most synagogues and Jewish organizations. And now, Penn's Hillel is no different. Under a new policy enacted this year, Hillel will charge non-student members of the region's Jewish community $180 to attend services.

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.