On an average day at Penn, there's not much to see at David Rittenhouse Laboratories except linoleum halls and a giant periodic table. But on Monday the building doubled as a set for the untitled James L. Brooks movie starring Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd and Owen Wilson.

Today marks the end of the first run for PennGreen, an environmentally focused pre-Orientation program. For 36 freshmen and 14 upperclassmen program leaders, the program served as an introduction to environmentalism in Philadelphia and at Penn.

After losing 12 players to graduation and returning only two starters, it's not surprising that the men's soccer team is having a bit of an identity crisis.

August 28 - Morton Reeves, 35, unaffiliated with the University and of the 300 block of Spring Garden St., was arrested at about 4:30 p.m. for allegedly spraying lighter fluid on four people at 40th and Market streets, then attempting to set them on fire.

Dear Class of 2013, When I wrote my goodbye column for these pages in May, I said I would pay you all the Icelandic krona in the world to switch places

After a summer of deliberation, Eze, a Wharton and College senior, resigned as UMC chairman. College junior Janice Dow, current UMC vice chairwoman and a former Daily Pennsylvanian opinion artist, will take his place.

This year, The Daily Pennsylvanian is following four freshmen through their first year of college. The occasional series will explore all aspects of the freshman journey, from moving in to cramming for finals - and everything in between.

This fall, the football team playing at Franklin Field will look retro. No, the players are not getting old school jerseys nor leather helmets.

According to Penn field hockey coach Val Cloud, it's "September or bust" this season. The Quakers hope to avenge their 6-11 record (4-3 Ivy) in 2009 in which they went 2-7 in the first month of play and at one point lost seven games in a row.

The endowment is expected to report a loss of 15.7 percent for fiscal year 2009, but Penn President Amy Gutmann expressed relief at this number - "the lowest of any drop among peer institutions."

While it's tempting to try and maintain those shiny 4.0 GPAs here, we hope that you don't. Penn is about so much more than bell curves and word counts. And we know that everyone's going to be offering you advice the next few days, but here are our quick hits for a great time at Penn.

Renovation, not recreation, seems to have been the keyword on campus this summer.

College sophomore Becca Elman will take over for Poe, a would-be College sophomore, representing the School of Arts and Sciences on the Undergraduate Assembly.

It seemed that nearly everyone at her memorial service yesterday, at Temple Beth Israel in Northfield, N.J., agreed on one point: Goldhagen knew how to live life to its fullest, and tried her hardest to impart her wisdom to others.