The "civic vision" for the Delaware riverfront area, created three years ago, took a step forward toward implementation. At the Philadelphia City Planning Commission meeting Tuesday, the plan was accepted as a mode to transform the urban landscape along the Delaware River's waterfront.

Stanley Fish would argue that professors should stick to the classroom. As the speaker for the Philomathean Society's "Annual Oration" event, Fish gave a lecture titled "What Professors Should and Shouldn't Do in the Classroom" last night in Claudia Cohen Hall.

As part of the AT&T; Aspire initiative, AT&T; Pennsylvania donated a grant of $300,000 over three years to Penn's Netter Center for Community Partnerships's College Access and Career Readiness Program. The donation was a portion of the nearly $800,000 in grants to programs throughout Philadelphia related to high-school achievement and post-graduation preparation.

Once the central hub and meeting place on campus before closing in 2003, the Palladium Bar - a restaurant and bar on 36th Street and Locust Walk where the ARCH building now stands - was also the anchor of a Hey Day tradition. As juniors paraded down Locust Walk, seniors toasted the procession from the bar.

College student Neil Gajare, arrested and charged with arson, posted $5,000 bail yesterday and is awaiting a preliminary hearing. The hearing is scheduled for April 29. The 22-year-old is being charged with arson and four related offenses in connection with a fire in Rodin College House early Wednesday morning.

Humans have been treating diseases with national products that come from plants and animals, but a Penn Museum of ArchaeoloProxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 and Anthropology researcher recently found that ancient people also utilized alcoholic beverages for medicinal purposes. Led by Anthropology professor and Penn Museum senior research scientist Patrick McGovern, the study on ancient Egyptian herbal wines was published in Proceedings of the National Acad

EVANSTON, Ill.,-- It was cold, it was wet, it was windy and it was a second half that Penn would rather forget. Despite leading 6-5 at halftime, the women's lacrosse team fell to No. 1 Northwestern 11-9. It was the second straight time that the No. 3 Quakers (13-1) fell to the Wildcats.

A student at St. Joseph's University has been hospitalized with a suspected case of bacterial meningitis, according to Harriet Goodheart, a spokeswoman for the university. The diagnosis has not yet been confirmed, she said. Until it is, health officials will not be able to determine whether the case is linked to the outbreak that hospitalized three Penn students with meningococcal infection earlier this semester.

Updated Apr. 26, 12:45 a.m. Large crowds of a few hundred high-school aged West Philadelphia residents gathered at 40th and Walnut streets Saturday night before being dispersed by police. One person reportedly assaulted a police officer, according to a member of the Philadelphia Police Department. However, this report was contradicted by other police officers. Other officers said large crowds of people were rushing out of the Bridge movie theater at 40th and Walnut streets.

It's time for students to tell professors how they really feel about them - and now they can do it online. The Provost's Office has shifted the entire Penn course evaluation system online, and all students will have to either complete or opt out of the evaluations by May 15 in order to receive their final grades.

College student Neil Gajare, has been arrested and charged with arson in connection with a fire in Rodin College House early yesterday morning. Police were still processing Gajare's case last night, and it was unclear whether he would be released on bail, according to the Philadelphia Police.

Twitter has become more than just a tool to follow the actions of popular celebrities. From Kelly Writers House staff to professors, many members of the Penn community are now using the social networking site for everything from writing poetry to advertising events.

College senior Mary Beth Fender has been applying to marketing research and communications research jobs in Washington D.C., but so far has not received an offer. However, Fender said she is far from the only person she knows who may graduate without a job.

According to convicted felon Robert Hillary King, slavery still exists in America - and it calls itself prison. A crowd of nearly 100 gathered last night to see the 66-year-old King, who was formerly imprisoned in Angola State Penitentiary, speak in Claudia Cohen Hall on the injustices of the American judicial system.

College student Neil Gajare, arrested and charged with arson in connection with a fire in Rodin College House early yesterday morning, posted $5,000 bail today and is awaiting a preliminary hearing. The 22-year-old is being charged with five counts, including arson, causing catastrophe, criminal mischief, possession of an instrument of crime with intent and recklessly endangering another person.

Strolling down Chestnut Street, College freshman Joanna Karaman is bombarded with a collage of colors emanating from the Hub building. After coming from class in College Hall, a more traditional 19th-century structure, Karaman said passing the Hub is like being "warped into a different era.

Updated Apr. 23, 4:30 a.m. When outgoing Undergraduate Assembly chairman and College and Wharton senior Wilson Tong addressed the group assembled for the UA's internal elections last night, he called UA chairman a job that "seemingly never ends." It was fitting, then, that voting lasted well into the night as the 2009-2010 UA members deliberated between College junior and former executive vice chairman Zac Byer and College sophomore and Sustainability and Facilities Committee chairman Alec Webley.