Facebook.com has joined the registration trend.The social-networking site joined up with non-partisan political organization Rock the Vote yesterday to begin offering a voter registration page through its Web site. Facebook’s move comes just a week after its competitor, MySpace.

Student descriptions of the alarm going off in the bathrooms in Williams Hall range from a high-pitched wail to lower-pitched beeping. Whatever the exact sound is, students agree: It is disruptive and occurs several times a week. They also say the situation has not changed since the beginning of the semester.

About halfway through his 7,000-mile voyage across Central Asia, travel writer Colin Thubron found himself in an ironic situation. Stranded in the town of Maimana, Afghanistan, he had decided to catch a ride on a plane carrying refugees. As he boarded the old aircraft, he noticed quizzical looks coming from the other passengers.

The University got more out of its investments this year than in years past, but it has a long way to go to catch up with its Ivy peers.Penn got a 12.5 percent return on its endowment for the fiscal year ending on June 30, an increase of about four percentage points from last year’s returns, officials announced last week.

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.