The Director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology announced that he is stepping down to pursue other interests, effective Nov. 1. Richard Leventhal will stay on the School of Arts and Sciences faculty as a professor of anthropology and will remain a curator for the museum, he said.

Next fall, the first step to recovery for drug and alcohol addicts could be swiping into Harrison College House.

University trustees plan to discuss issues ranging from Student Health Services to faculty retention as they convene for their fall meetings today. Sixty current board members and 30 former ones plan to partake in the meetings, according to University Secretary Leslie Kruhly.

The man some have credited with ending the Vietnam War is coming to Penn. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger - a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - will speak at Irvine Auditorium at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 14.

Lots of Penn students dream of big futures, but members of the Penn Nanotech Society are dreaming on a much, much smaller scale. Yesterday, the group joined with the Penn Nano/Bio Interface Center to host "Nano Day," a series of presentations designed to dispel myths and increase awareness of tiny technology.

Imagine your girlfriend, your roommate, your class president, that kid sitting next to you in biology class. Imagine that only four years after you leave Penn, one of those students will be on the floor of Congress, teaming up with Nancy Pelosi and arguing against Dennis Hastert.

Penn professor Richard Gelles was once hired by Philadelphia's Department of Health Services, but now he says he'll testify against city officials to help clean the department up. Gelles, dean of Penn's School of Social Policy and Practice, will likely be heavily involved with the fallout of a DHS scandal regarding neglect of children as government officials investigate the department in the coming months.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In a lecture full of phallic images, guest speaker Anita Steckel discussed sexual art in the 1970s and the battles of censorship that ensued. "The whole concept of an artist is freedom," said Steckel. "And what is freedom? Being able to go all the way." Steckel is a feminist artist who has been dealing with sensitive issues such as race, sex and gender for over 40 years.

You may not be able to buy alcohol - or congregate in large groups - in certain areas of the city if one city politician has his way. Mayoral candidate Michael Nutter is urging Philadelphia Mayor John Street to declare a state of emergency in the parts of the city that have been hit by the greatest amount of violent crime.

Those ratty T-shirts stuffed in the bottom of the dresser can be used for more than just dust rags, one author says. Megan Nicolay, the author of the do-it-yourself book Generation T: 108 Ways to Transform a T-shirt, spoke and gave a demonstration yesterday evening at the Penn Bookstore.

Former Bush Administration official Richard Clarke will headline this year's Integrity Week, student leaders announced this week. A 1972 College graduate, Clarke was serving as an anti-terrorism expert in the federal government on Sept. 11, 2001. He is widely known for his public criticism of how the Bush administration handled surveillance information about al Qaeda.

Penn is gearing up for a season of tough congressional lobbying after planting its flag in D.C. this past summer.

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.