As Penn's Alex Fairman jumped for the ball around midfield in the second half, he received a jarring blow to his stomach from a Lehigh player, leaving him lying on the field gasping for breath. It was just that kind of soccer game at Rhodes Field Saturday, where Penn tied Lehigh 1-1.

Penn's best doubles team scores upset The singles bracket of the Cissie Leary Invitational may have been a dud. But as far as Penn was concerned, the doubles competition couldn't have gone any better. Fresh off of taking the William and Mary Invitational, Ekaterina Kosminskaya and Julia Koulbitskaya gave Penn its first ever doubles win at the Leary Invitational.

VILLANOVA, Pa., Sept. 22 - With star running back Joe Sandberg in street clothes on Saturday night, Penn got a little glimpse of what 2007 could have looked like. Sandberg, a fifth-year senior who rushed for roughly 100 yards against Villanova each of the last two years, wasn't a lock to return to the Quakers this year after transferring from Penn to Rutgers and back again three years ago.

Drexel University is set to seriously spruce up its library -and through a Web site, nonetheless. After receiving a grant of over $600,000 this month, Drexel has announced that it will turn the Internet Public Library - currently the largest free online collection and reference service accessible to anyone with the Internet - into an even more comprehensive online learning community.

You don't need to look at the scoreboard to see which team won a volleyball match. All you need to see is the attack percentage. Win that battle and the match is yours. Penn demonstrated that over the weekend, winning the percentage battle and thus taking the match two out of three times.

Golden ornaments and semi-precious stones fill the second-floor Dietrich Gallery at the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, where the "River of Gold: Precolumbian Treasures from Sitio Conte" exhibit is now on display.

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.