Last night, mayors from all over the country congregated in Houston Hall for the opening night of the 43rd national session of The Mayors' Institute on City Design. The event featured speeches by Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter and Charleston, S.C., Mayor Joseph Riley.

Two students have been hospitalized with meningococcal infections and 100 others who may be been in contact with them have been preemptively treated, according to Student Health Services Director Evelyn Wiener. One student is in stable condition after treatment.

The Student Activities Council General Body will vote Feb. 18 on whether to fund Penn's Athletes and Allies Tackling Homophobia. The SAC Executive Council voted last week to recommend PATH as a newly recognized syndicate. According to College junior and SAC Chairwoman Natalie Vernon, the General Body agrees with the recommendation "99 percent of the time.

Student Health Services announced today that all three students hospitalized with meningococcal infections are making significant improvements and are recovering. Two more students were hospitalized with flu-like symptoms, though they are not critically ill and have not been confirmed to have a meningococcal infection.

Updated Feb. 14, 6:54 p.m. About 2,000 people -- a quarter of the undergraduate student body -- have received prophylactic medication so far after a third Penn student was hospitalized for a meningococcal infection, according to University spokeswoman Phyllis Holtzman. The third student is still in critical condition today. Holtzman said no new cases were reported Saturday.

This week on Locust Walk, "vagina" is the new "register to vote." As part of a week-long campaign to eliminate a taboo and promote the play, members of The Vagina Monologues have been inundating passersby with the word "vagina" from their table outside the Penn Women's Center.

Starting next month, a few more squirrels will call Penn home. The Penn Art Club will be placing between 20 and 25 larger-than-life squirrel statues on Locust Walk and College Green between March 16 and April 19. The group is following in the footsteps of cities like Chicago, New York and Los Angeles which in the past have featured cows, angels or other figures decorated by prominent artists.

The University of Pennsylvania Press received a grant of $1.16 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation last week. The money will go toward publishing scholarly books on literatures of the non-Anglophone world. Penn Press will share the grant with Fordham University Press, University of California Press, University of Virginia Press and University of Washington Press.

On a Sunday afternoon last month, members of The Vagina Monologues sat down for a group arts and crafts project. The assignment? Represent the Penn vagina. At the 2009 performance, those posters will be on display for the audience. The designs turned out to be "completely different" from one another, according to College senior Rachel Garber, the producer of the play at Penn.

If the Netter Center has its way, students at other schools may soon understand what an ABCS course means. Penn's Netter Center for Community Partnerships is using a new gift from Barbara and Edward Netter to spread Penn's model of community education to other regions, beginning with the University of Oklahoma at Tulsa.

Tonight is the first of Mayor Michael Nutter's budget workshops, run in collaboration with Penn Project for Civic Engagement to help get public input on budget decisions. All Philadelphia residents are invited to attend. Nutter announced the Workshops Jan.

Hunting for a job in NYC? Scouting campus for the perfect chapter? Need to reconnect with your long-lost pledge class? Andrew Dudum has your answers, and more. Dudum, a Wharton sophomore and Beta Theta Pi social chairman, created myGreek.org - which went live three weeks ago - as a Facebook-style Web site for Greeks.

As college-tuition fees increase, students are paying a bigger share of their own bill, according to a study of higher-education spending trends. The study, called the Delta Project on Postsecondary Education Costs, Productivity and Accountability, was released last month and based its research on data colleges reported to the federal government.

Beginning this fall, the School of Nursing will incorporate an electronic medical record (EMR) system in the classroom. Developed by Eclipsys and already used at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, the system encompasses all the elements of a paper medical chart, according to Nursing professor Kathryn Bowles.

In an address to students yesterday, Chunmiao Zheng posed China's milion-dollar question - how do you supply 20 percent of the world's population with only 7 percent of the Earth's water resources? Yesterday afternoon at the Carolyn Hoff Lynch Auditorium, Zheng, professor of hydrogeology at the University of Alabama, explored the issue of China's mounting water scarcity in a talk entitled, "Will China Run Out of Water?" His final answer: Not likely for the country as a whole, he said, although he added that certain regions were more vulnerable to distress than others.

The Mexican cuisine at Penn has no borders. The opening of Chipotle last month added to the variety of Mexican restaurants scattered around campus to satiate a spicy palate. But despite this new competition, officials say business at other Mexican establishments in the area has not been negatively affected.