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Penn Police to Host Skating Event for City's 23 PAL Centers March 16 at Class of '23 Ice Rink
WHO: Approximately 270 children and youths who attend sessions at the 23 Police Athletic League Centers throughout Philadelphia will be special guests of the University of Pennsylvania Division of Public Safety. Also scheduled to take part are University President Amy Gutmann, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Sylvester Johnson, Penn Vice President of Public Safety Maureen Rush and Penn Police Chief Mark Dorsey.
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Sociologists Explore Why Low-Income Women Have Out-of-Wedlock Births
PHILADELPHIA-- In the forthcoming book "Promises I Can Keep," sociologists Kathryn Edin, of the University of Pennsylvania, and her co-author Maria Kefalas, of Saint Joseph's University, bash the myth that low-income mothers value marriage less than their middle-class counterparts.
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Stacking the deck in Philly’s favor
Gaming is coming to Philadelphia. Legislation passed last summer in Harrisburg has paved the way for the city to receive two 5,000-slot-machine gaming parlors by 2007, and City Hall has no legal say in their location or design. That’s the bad news. The silver lining—other than the promised wage tax cuts parlor profits will yield—is that Penn Design students are getting involved in finding a slot solution for the city.
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Movable Feast: Eat your breakfast!
Breakfast. It’s the most important meal of the day. It’s the vital sustenance that gets you going first thing in the morning and keeps you going until the sweet relief that is lunch. Skip your breakfast, doctors say, and you’re asking for trouble. University City offers plenty of options for the discerning breakfaster who left the house with an empty stomach. Here are some of the highlights. On the cheap
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Greening boosts home prices—here’s the proof
RESEARCH/Wharton professor comes up with the facts and figures that show neighborhood greening is a sound investment. Flowers, as you’d expect, take center stage at the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s annual Flower Show. But as you wander the rose-scented aisles this year (March 6-13), you may notice a small booth that features nothing floral at all but showcases some of the most important work done by PHS—the greening of Philadelphia.
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Cookbooks
If you’re crazy about food and the master chefs and experts behind some of your favorite dishes, then mark your calendars from March 11 through 20 for the regional celebration, “KitchenAid The Book and The Cook.” In the neighborhood, three venues will be turned into food havens: the Penn Museum (3260 South St.), World Café Live (3025 Walnut St.) and Abbraccio (820 S. 47th St.). For a complete list of events, go to www.thebookandthecook.com. Friday, March 11
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Catholics left in limbo?
Popes do not retire. They have been forced out of office and have died while in office, but only one sitting pope, Pope Celestine V, has ever resigned his office, doing so in 1294. “ Dante called it ‘The Great Refusal,’” says E. Ann Matter, professor and chair of Penn’s Department of Religious Studies. “It touched off the debate, afterward, of whether the papacy was an office for life or if a pope could resign. And nobody has since resigned. … It sort of made the idea that the nature of the papacy is a lifetime commitment, and you just don’t step away from it.”
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Ask Benny: Is there a database for Penn's public art?
Dear Benny, As an art lover, I’ve noticed many outdoor sculptures as I walk around campus, but know there must be more. Is there a way I can find out the location of all of the sculptures at Penn, as well as information about the artists who made them?—Sucker for Sculpture
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Brinkley on the art of the interview
Douglas Brinkley—a renowned historian who has contributed to, written or edited more than 60 books—knows a thing or two about a good interview. “The first rule is to know your subject,” he said at a Feb. 15 talk at Kelly Writers House. “Always try to interview people in their homes, never in their place of business.”
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