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.

It appears that for Penn field hockey team, their recent scoring drought has turned into a deluge. After handing the University of Maryland Baltimore County a 3-0 loss yesterday afternoon, the Quakers (7-7, 2-2 Ivy) have scored 14 goals in their five games since the mid-season mark.

David Rittenhouse would be rolling in his grave if he saw how ugly and unnavigable his namesake building has become.

Penn was founded in 1740. Benjamin Franklin founded Penn. Therefore, Benjamin Franklin founded Penn in 1740. Not quite, according to Wikipedia. Dan Smith, a 60-year-old software engineer from outside Boston, wrote on the site that a group led by evangelist George Whitefield tried to start the school that would become Penn in 1740, even putting up the first building.

Junior Jason Pinsky is looking to ace his midterm at Penn this week. This midterm will take place from today through Tuesday at Penn's Levy Pavilion, where he will look to lead the men's tennis team to a strong showing at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's Northeast Men's Regional Championship.

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