Now is when the dividends for Penn's difficult early schedule are supposed to pay off. And the men's soccer team (4-4-2, 1-0-0 Ivy) will look to cash in when it faces Ivy League powerhouse Dartmouth (6-2-2, 0-0-1) Saturday at Rhodes Field.

NewCourtland Elder Services, a Philadelphia-based company that addresses the needs of the city's elderly population, recently donated $5 million to endow and name the Nursing School's NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health.

NEW YORK--When Joe Sandberg received his 22nd and final handoff, he finished off one of the best performances of his career. It was fourth down and he needed only one yard, but he got 13, enough for his fourth score of the game. Sandberg finished with 197 yards, an average of just under nine per carry.

To describe the inner workings of the underground economy that exist in many urban communities, Columbia professor Sudhir Venkatesh told a story at the 23rd annual public lecture hosted by the Urban Studies Department. Venkatesh, an ethnographer of life in urban neighborhoods, conducted his research on the intricacies of the underground economy in Brownsville, Chicago, an extremely poor and predominantly African American community.

Val Cloud should be happy. Her field hockey team just completed a thrilling 3-2 comeback win at Delaware on Wednesday, which she called one of the best wins in program history. But with a game against perennial Ivy doormat Columbia looming, there's one thing she just can't get out of her mind.

Economics professor and accused murderer Rafael Robb plans to use surveillance-camera footage at several locations that he visited the morning his wife was killed in order to provide an alibi defense at his November trial, according to court papers filed Friday.

Imagine what would happen if all the rules of the library - no speaking, shouting or running - were broken, and the books began reading themselves aloud. Just that happened last night in the Kelly Writers House's Art Cafe during "Suddenly Everyone Began Reading Aloud," a project by College senior Matthew Abess.

Two of the league's most powerful offenses clash tomorrow as Princeton visits Providence to face Brown. Through four contests, the teams have combined to put up over 230 points this year and each collected over 500 yards of offense in its last game. Bears' quarterback Mike Dougherty averages 331.

The University's handling of the departure of former Dean of Admissions Lee Stetson may be doing Penn more harm than good, crisis-management experts say.

It must feel nice to play close to home. After a slate of tournaments that took the men's golf team up to New York and down to Delaware this fall, the Quakers will get their only chance to play in the Philadelphia area. Penn will tee up at the Philadelphia Cricket Club for the annual Big Five Classic on Saturday and Sunday.

While teaching Marketing 101 last fall, Wharton professors Keith Niedermeier and Peter Fader made a bet: They challenged each other to create Facebook profiles and see who would have more friends by the end of the semester. But there was one rule: neither professor could make any friend requests.

Hello, I must be going. Thus Groucho Marx, who knew better than even cousin Karl that every statement turns into its opposite, that all that's solid melts into air. And so - after two years as the first house dean of Harrison College House followed by seven as the first director of the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships - hello becomes goodbye and poof! - I'm gone.

Quakers football coach Al Bagnoli knew he had a problem to solve when he pieced together this year's recruiting class. In this case, he didn't mind a bit of overkill to get the job done. The result was three freshman kickers on the 2007 Quakers, including starting placekicker Andrew Samson.

This past week I had the pleasure of hosting the DP's first Open Forum of the semester. What began as a simple experiment last year has blossomed into a great way for you to share your thoughts and give us feedback. As usual, you had a lot on your mind.

The MRI results from quarterback Robert Irvin's ailing shoulder aren't expected until today, but the Quakers won't be calling his number for the rest of the 2007 season. And although Irvin is a junior, they might be calling it in 2009. Irvin said yesterday that his shoulder, which he had surgery on over the summer, has not improved in the last several weeks.

From the man who brought you Monty Python and the Holy Grail, get ready for . Richard II? That's right: Last night, former Monty Python member Terry Jones addressed a packed room in Rodin College House's Rooftop Lounge on the historical legacy of one of England's most notorious monarchs.

It's bedtime, and you're hungry. You know you shouldn't reach for that bag of chips, but you do anyway. Chances are, you just gave into a temptation. But for about 2 percent of the population, the snacking might be a symptom of "night-eating syndrome" that causes excessive post-dinner eating.