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Save the Date: Founders Day Symposium
For its second annual symposium, the University Faculty Senate has chosen to focus on globalism— and to resurrect an important day in the University’s calendar. Until a decade ago, Jan. 17, otherwise known as Ben Franklin’s birthday, was celebrated on campus as Founders Day. A severe snowstorm canceled the event 10 years ago, and since then the date has gone by unnoticed.
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Powelton's Main Street
Every neighborhood has a Main Street. Penn’s western edge has 40th Street. Residents west of 43rd St. have Baltimore Avenue. And Powelton Village—a cluster of historic streets, old houses broken up into student apartments and scattered single-family residences located on the northern border of University City—has Lancaster Avenue.
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Global Penn
More students from around the world are clamoring to enroll at the University, while Penn students are studying abroad in greater numbers. So says the Institute for International Education, which recently released its annual data on international mobility of students and scholars.
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Back to the drawing board?
Alexandra Schmidt-Ullrich, a lecturer for the Architecture 301 studio at Charles Addams Fine Arts Hall, offers a desk critique of the work of junior Aneta Pariaszevski. Photo credit: Mark Stehle
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MLK awards It's time to nominate Penn students, staff members or neighborhood residents involved in community service for a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Involvement Recognition Award. The award honors members of the Philadelphia region whose active service to others best exemplifies King's ideals. Nomination forms must be submitted by Friday, Dec. 8 for the award ceremony on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2007. Forms may be submitted online at www.upenn.edu/aarc/mlk/award.Great deals
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Lemon Grass Thai
By The Current Staff Yes, we know you probably have an official holiday party sometime this month in your department. But if you’re looking for an additional out-of-office celebration, we suggest steering clear of anywhere too fancy and braving the short walk north to Lemon Grass Thai Restaurant on Lancaster Ave.
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Penn responds to families in need
Isabel Sampson-Mapp insists she has the best job at Penn. Outside her tiny, cluttered office on a recent cloudy morning the hallway is beginning to fill up with cans and boxes and cartons. It’s the culmination of Penn’s Thanksgiving holiday food drive, and, as always, the Penn community has stepped up to the plate. Donations will be coming from all across campus,” she beams. “Last year we tripled the number of families we could serve.”
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The power of opinion polling
Assistant professor of history Sarah Igo says people have always been somewhat skeptical of opinion polls. That skepticism, however, hasn’t made the polls any less popular.. Photo courtesy of Sarah Igo These days, political polls, person-on-the-street interviews and product surveys are woven into our culture.
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King of the world
Photo credit: Candace diCarlo David Dye's Top 5 Joni Mitchell, Hejira (1976): “I am honestly a singer-songwriter fan. Hejira is incredible lyrically and she has some of the most amazing backing, with Jaco Pastorious on bass. It’s just a fabulous disc.”
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Staff Q&A with Jane Irish
Many of the young artists in the Fine Arts program at Penn dream of being able to sustain themselves through their art. It’s a seductive fantasy, says painter Jane Irish, and one that she was able to live for more than a decade after getting her graduate degree from CUNY’s Queens College. At a certain point, though, she says she had to “bite the bullet and get a day job” to support her studio practice.