Accessible and appealing may not be the most expected words for describing a celebrated physicist's work. But those words were used by Publisher's Weekly to describe Physics professor Gino Segre's latest book, Faust In Copenhagen: A Struggle For the Soul of Physics.

Penn President Amy Gutmann met with University officials and the Board of Trustees yesterday afternoon to discuss a strong endowment return, faculty appointments and newly acquired property for the University.

Time to settle down. No more road trips out west, no more Penn Soccer Classic. No more goalie waffling. No excuses. The men's soccer team (1-3-1) begins the main stretch of its season at Rhodes Field on Saturday night against Lehigh. There are only three more matches until the short Ivy League season begins, and coach Rudy Fuller laments that his team "is not as far along as we want to be at this point.

It all ends today: The weeks of probing Penn InTouch, trying to switch out of that 9 a.m. recitation the system forced you into or the closed-out class you need in order to graduate. The add period for the fall semester is over. Today also marks the end of yet another semester the University let slip away without offering an immediate, usable solution to an aging registration system.

Defending Aramark To the Editor: As director of the Penn Reading Project, it pains me to think that the choice of this year's book, The Omnivore's Dilemma, might have spurred extra criticism aimed at Penn Dining. For the record, my experience with Aramark has been entirely positive.

Tomorrow night will take the Penn-Villanova football game to a place it hasn't been for years: Villanova Stadium. The teams will meet for the fourth year in a row, but no current Penn player has set foot in the Wildcats' home venue.

Sure, the Quakers may no longer bask in the past glory of winning Ivy League football championships, but it's never difficult to uphold our "Social Ivy" title. All that entails is copious amounts of alcohol. Disclaimer: I am neither condemning nor condoning the use of alcoholic beverages, especially among the underaged.

Penn volleyball will need every advantage this weekend. And the Palestra just might give one to them. Facing top teams Albany (7-5) and Temple (4-10) in the Sheraton-Penn invitational this weekend the Quakers may have to rely on a little home-court advantage.

Some day soon, city residents taking a stroll along the Delaware River won't be confronted with abandoned, burned-out factories, but with urban parks surrounded by restaurants, rowhomes and shopping instead. At least, that's the plan put forward yesterday by Penn Praxis.

Cornell (1-0, 0-0) at Yale (1-0, 0-0) It's not often that a team can play spoiler in Week 2, but that's the role Cornell may find itself in tomorrow when it pays No. 21 Yale a visit. The Big Red, who crushed Bucknell last weekend, could send the Elis toppling out of the top-25 and simultaneously ruin their home opener if they were to pull off the upset.

No matter how many times you knock them down, they're going to get right back up - and probably score a couple of goals while they're at it. Despite suffering their fair share of bumps and bruises, the Penn women's soccer team has managed to rise above considerable adversity early this season to post a 4-1-1 record.

Penn announced an impressive 20.2 percent return on its endowment investments for the fiscal year that ended on June 30, officials announced yesterday at a Board of Trustees meeting.

When Villanova quarterback Marvin Burroughs graduated last spring, Wildcats fans probably thought they had seen the last of the veteran that carried the offense for three years. But the familiar face has been in the crowd at the home games so far, watching his successor, sophomore quarterback Antwon Young, who has been like a younger brother to him.

Penn's Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center held its 25-year anniversary celebration yesterday afternoon, honoring both the center's success and respected director Robert Schoenberg. About 100 students and faculty members mingled and ate hors d'oeuevres in the center's new lounge inside the Carriage House as they celebrated the efforts of one of nation's oldest and most active LGBT centers.

Playboy - naked women, Hugh Hefner and, now, social networking. Playboy U, the new Web site backed by the storied men's magazine of the same name, launched to the public last month, promising parties, fun and - surprisingly - no nudity. The site, which is only open to college students, is much like Facebook, with student profiles that include user-generated photos, videos and blogs.

Mercyhurst Preparatory School, in Erie, Pa., has set up a fund in memory of College sophomore Anne Ryan, who died on Sept. 9 from meningitis. The fund, named the Anne Ryan Mission Fund, will help pay for religious community-service trips to Baltimore, Md.

Avery Lawrence is a College senior from Charlottesville, Va. His e-mail address is lawrence@dailypennsylvanian.com.