A rigorous stretch of seven games in 22 days is taking its toll on the Penn men's soccer team with the most important part of the schedule fast approaching. The last of those seven games is a pivotal clash tomorrow at Yale, and Penn will have to go at it with at least one of its defenders relegated to the sidelines by injury.

When my Staph infection began to spread, Student Health sat idly by while more students contracted the virus.

Parts of the Delaware riverfront are "the densest, most historic, least planned" areas in Philadelphia, Harris Steinberg says. Now, his group at Penn has a shot at making them better. Steinberg is director of Penn Praxis, an arm of the School of Design, which is set to play a big role in developing the riverfront.

Penn's sprint football captain Dave Lopez hopes last year's loss to Cornell will not be reprised this year. Having beaten Cornell in Ithaca, N.Y., at the beginning of last season, the Quakers were upended at home by a revitalized Big Red squad, 24-17 later in the year.

Not every Penn student gets to go out drinking with Steven Colbert, chat it up with Diane Sawyer or hobnob with Russell Crowe. But for Puneet Singh, it's just another day at work. On a day-to-day basis, the Wharton junior deals with complaints about the future of Hey Day - he is the junior class president - and accounting homework.

Students staying on campus this fall break can help to ensure that the red and yellow autumn foliage gives way to a whole lot of green next spring. This Saturday, UC Green - a local, non-profit group dedicated to forestry - will be sponsoring a large-scale tree planting effort in the West Powelton and Saunders Park neighborhoods of West Philadelphia.

Yale kicker Alan Kimball sent a 35-yard field goal through the uprights in overtime on Saturday to send the Quakers to a 17-14 loss on Saturday, dropping Penn into a tie for third place in the Ivy League. The game-ending kick followed a missed 37-yard attempt from Penn's Derek Zoch.

Franklin Field isn't the only place where Penn's athletes are being watched. A few blocks north, the Admissions Office does some checking up of its own via a numerical measure called the Academic Index. The index - "a combination of testing scores and performance in high school," according to Dean of Admissions Lee Stetson - is calculated for recruits across the entire Ivy League.

Nothing was going right three weeks ago. The Quakers had lost two games in a row and four out of five. A 2-1 defeat to Dartmouth at the end of that stretch effectively ended Penn's title hopes. Since then, the Quakers have scored 11 goals during a season-high four-game winning streak.

Just like grocery-aisle food, items from restaurants and vendors should come with nutritional information.

Soon after Jennifer Bonovitz began working with a 10-year-old inner-city child born to a crack-addicted mother, she noticed that things kept disappearing from her office. Realizing the boy was headed for trouble, the Philadelphia psychoanalyst confronted him.

Last weekend, the Penn run defense shut down Jordan Davis and Columbia, allowing just 28 yards the entire game. But the Quakers will be facing a much more powerful opponent tomorrow in Yale running back Mike McLeod.

For this year's incarnation of the annual tradition known as the Line, Penn basketball fans won't only be taking their sleeping bags - they'll be taking a road trip. The event will take place the weekend of Nov. 3-4, when Penn students will first be able to purchase season tickets for the men's basketball team.

The year wasn't supposed to go this way for the Yale men's soccer team. One year removed from an Ivy League co-championship and an NCAA Tournament berth, the Elis returned nine starters and 14 players in all. But with this year's Ivy League season more than half over, the Elis are a shadow of their old selves.

Dave Anderson is a College senior from Denver. His e-mail address is anderson@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Retail Theft Oct. 14 - Police say Mike Osborne, 29, and Joseph Nucci, 43 - both unaffiliated with Penn - stole assorted books from the University Bookstore. They were arrested in the 3900 block of Walnut Street at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 17 - At about 5:30 p.m., a number of shirts valued at up to $1,000 were stolen from Urban Outfitters on 36th Street.

When the Penn men's soccer team hosted American last year, Eagles head coach Todd West rested some of his key players for a crucial conference tilt three days afterward. Yesterday, Penn coach Rudy Fuller saw for himself the potential benefits of that decision.