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

At this stage in the Penn football team's season, the potential turning point has come and gone. A victory against heavy favorite Yale last week could have been the last opportunity for an Ivy title run, but after the last drive in triple-overtime stalled, it's time for the Quakers (2-4, 1-2 Ivy) to shift gears.

City officials seem to be giving the yellow light to development along the Schuylkill. Traffic congestion along and near the expressway is a major concern for the city, the Philadelphia Planning Commission said in a meeting last Tuesday in discussing the planned $400 million Cira Centre South development.

How's this for a must-win game? A contest at No. 6 Brown, against a team that has only lost once this year and has won four straight since then. The men's soccer team faces this situation as it fights to keep its hopes for a league title alive. Tomorrow, the Quakers (5-6-2, 2-1-0 Ivy) will make the trip out to Providence, R.

The future of Wharton undergraduate Irina Malinovskaya still hangs in the balance as the jury failed to reach a verdict yesterday. Malinovskaya is charged with the murder of Temple University graduate student Irina Zlotnikov, the girlfriend of the accused's former boyfriend, Robert Bondar.

The Penn women's soccer team has found itself in an unprecedented position. The Quakers, who have served as the hunters in seasons past, will now have to protect their record as the hunted. Penn is 4-0 in the Ivy League for the first time in school history and alone at the top of the Ivy League standings with only three games to go.

This weekend will even out the middle of the pack in the league, with two pairs of 1-2 teams playing each other. And fans won't have to wait until Saturday for some Ivy League action - the first kickoff of the weekend will be tonight in Princeton. Cornell (4-2, 1-2 Ivy) at Princeton (2-4, 1-2) Three quarterbacks couldn't get it done for Princeton last weekend against Harvard.

This week, the Penn College Republicans have organized Terrorism Awareness Week. As some of you may know, on a national level this campaign is running under the title Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, sponsored by David Horowitz and the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

While most use text-messaging for practical purposes, one man is putting the medium to a newer and more creative use. Paul Notzold, a graduate of Parsons School of Design and Technology in New York, spoke about the potential of mobile media yesterday at a packed Kelly Writers House.

Penn's opponents this weekend are a combined 3-11 in the Ivy League. But that doesn't mean the team is complacent. In large part that is because they are heading to New York to face two-time defending champion Cornell. Although not on their way to a third-straight championship this year, the Big Red (6-12, 3-4 Ivy) are still a formidable opponent; they have already upset a strong Dartmouth team earlier this season.

Are National Basketball Association referees racially biased? Business and Public Policy professor Justin Wolfers tried to answer this question in a lecture last night in Logan Hall.

After spending the majority of high school playing on the same football team as his brother, Nick Anastasio wanted a change of pace. So when both Penn and Brown recruited him heavily in his senior year, Anastasio decided against joining his older brother Joe on the Quakers, and cleared a path for himself instead.

Facebook. Or "le livre de visage." Or maybe "das Angesichtbuch." Once the social-networking toy of American collegians, Facebook has since expanded globally. And with membership recently growing at astronomical rates in Europe and other parts of the world, users say the site has started to bridge a gap of oceanic proportions.

A West Philadelphia man was killed and two people, including one police officer, were wounded early this morning in a gunfight outside of Koko Bongo nightclub, located just off the edge of campus. Lamar Bembry, a 21-year-old resident of the 5400 block of Race Street, was shot and killed by police during the gun battle.

Why the name change? To the editor: I was disappointed to read that the College Republicans caved to pressure from the Muslim Students' Association and dropped the term "Islamo-Fascism" from their planned awareness week ("After name conflicts, groups begin events," 10/22/07).

Hopefully no player on the Penn field hockey team is afraid of heights. When the squad takes on Brown in Providence, R.I. tomorrow, it will be playing on a roof. Warner Roof, home of Brown field hockey, sits atop the Olney Margolies Athletic Center. According to Quakers coach Val Cloud, it provides an "awkward" playing environment, both for new players to the roof, as "most of my team hasn't been up there before," and to returning ones.

The number of thin, white laptops around campus is about to jump - again. With today's release of Apple's newest operating system, called Mac OS X Leopard, officials expect campus orders of Apple products to increase. But overall, a potential rise is par for the course.