Just think of Rob Belcore as the Scottie Pippen to Zack Rosen's Michael Jordan. That is, if your Scottie was a slightly scruffy college freshman with a penchant for video games, and your Michael is his six-foot, carrot-top roommate from North Jersey. Yes, the analogy isn't a perfect fit for Belcore and the red-headed Rosen.

There are many valid reasons for students to climb the stairs in the high rises: It's often quicker if they live on the first three floors; enough trips up could replace 10 minutes on the Stair Stepper; it's proper etiquette so those living on the 24th floor can get home a minute or two faster.

The spirit of Juicy Campus, the infamous online gossip site that shut down last Thursday, lives on. In its place comes CollegeACB.com, or the College Anonymous Confession Board, which seeks to give "students the freedom to voice their opinions and ask questions about any facet of college life," according to a press release on the Web site.

Two students have been hospitalized with meningitis, according to a University-wide e-mail sent out Thursday afternoon. One student is in stable treatment and is being treated. The other student is in critical condition.

In a conference where dominant big men are scarce and big-time athletes are scarcer, consistent jump-shooting becomes all but a necessity. But it's no secret that Penn has been deficient from the perimeter over the past two seasons, and this year's Ivy League campaign has started no differently.

The total number of crimes in the Penn Patrol Zone in January 2009 is the same as this month in 2008. Although the total number stayed fixed at 60, crimes against people increased from five to eight and crimes against property decreased from 55 to 52, according to the Division of Public Safety.

Although most students will recognize her as the first female U.S. Secretary of State or the highest ranking woman in U.S. government at the time, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has not let her past position define her. Given her long history of dedication to international affairs, the Social Planning and Events Committee Connaissance subcommittee chose Albright as this spring's keynote speaker.

It was just another day in outfielder Gary Johnson's rollercoaster journey to Major League Baseball. Now an MBA candidate at Wharton, Johnson had nothing to hide when a man came to his AAA Salt Lake City clubhouse for random drug testing. He knew something was up, though, after he saw one of his teammates use the dugout bathroom instead of showing up for the test.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If you're a junior or senior currently scrambling for a job, you might as well pack up your bags right now and see what the economy looks like on Mars. But if you're an inmate in the Philadelphia Prison System scheduled for release in the next few months, you may actually be in luck.

I'll get it out there: I'm a hypocrite. I'm against income taxes but pay them. I'm in favor of the death penalty but wouldn't want to get it myself. I'm a proponent of freedom of speech but occasionally censor my Facebook wall. And I'm pro-guns despite never firing or even holding one.

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.

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.

Educational institutions may not receive as much aid as they originally thought, due to a revised version of the economic-stimulus bill passed by the U.S. Senate yesterday. The Senate's bill allocates $83 billion for public schools and higher education, only about half as much as the original $150 billion approved by the House of Representatives in late January.