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Whatever your pleasure—sci fi or fantasy novels, modern or 18th-century poetry—Jennifer Snead thinks you should read it. And if you’re an undergraduate who wants to start a literary magazine, run a tutoring project or host a reading with a favorite poet, she thinks you should do that, too.
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Everything’s a dollar: Think the days of $1 matinees are a thing of the past? Think again. The Bridge: Cinema de Lux is giving fans of the golden age of Hollywood the chance to see a couple of classics on the big screen for a mere buck. The Silver Screen Classics program—which shows memorable flicks made from the 1930s to ’80s—charges only a dollar for admission to the film, a bag of popcorn and a soda.
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Want to spend a summer night outdoors but still catch a flick or band? No problem. Just check out these outdoor offerings: TUNES IN THE SQUARE: The John Breslin Jazz Band, Jasafar, Synthesis Latin Band, Swing Shift Jazz Band and Arpeggio Jazz Ensemble take turns heating up the 36th St. Plaza, between Sansom and Walnut in the concert series. 5 to 7 p.m. every Thursday from July 8 through August 26.
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If the presidential race has you in its thrall, you can keep tabs on who’s winning by tracking and comparing the national polls by Gallup, Fox, the Associated Press and others. Or, you can go to politicalforecasting.com, whose creators—including Wharton marketing professor J. Scott Armstrong—have done the job for you.
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Dear Benny,Since Dr. Gutmann arrived at Penn at the beginning of July, why is her inauguration not happening until October? — Impatient for Inauguration
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No violence at home Thanks to a generous donation from Robert C. Ortner W’49 and his wife, Evelyn Ortner, the School of Social Work now has an interdisciplinary program dedicated to domestic violence education, policy, practice and research. The Evelyn Ortner-Unity Program in Family Violence creates a domestic violence resource library, a course in domestic violence open to graduate and undergrads, an annual lecture, a fellowship and a biennial domestic violence symposium.
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A White Dog Cafe tradition for 22 years, the annual celebration of Bastille Day on July 14 gives Francophiles, natives and folks just looking for fine food a chance to eat, drink and be merry on Sansom Street. For $38, patrons can sit down to a Provençal feast under a tent. If you’re just in the mood to dance to French and American songs, make sure to drop by after 10 p.m., when admission is only $5. Don’t miss “The storming of La Bastille,” where “revolutionaries” free a pack of imprisoned white French poodles.
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As Andrew Exum C’00 told a Penn Bookstore crowd June 14, midway through his Penn career, he faced a hard decision. “I was told, ‘You can just muddle through or you can be a leader.’ ” Then part of Penn’s ROTC program, Exum opted for the latter, joining the infantry after graduation and serving as platoon leader in operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.
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PHILADELPHIA -- Joan Gluch, director of community health for the School of Dental Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, was one of 10 finalists nominated for the Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service Learning, presented annually by the Campus Compact, a national coalition of more than 900 colleges and universities.This award honors faculty members for the integration of community or public service into their schools' curriculums and for efforts to institutionalize service learning.
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PHILADELPHIA -- John W. Fantuzzo, a University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education professor, has received the Head Start Research Mentor Award from the federal Administration for Children and Families.Fantuzzo is the third recipient of the award, which previously has gone to Ed Zigler and Julius Richmond, the two people most responsible for the creation of the program.In addition to Fantuzzo's own groundbreaking research of the Head Start program, he has shepherded Penn graduate students interested in Head Start research.