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Ethics matter
According to Richard Clarke, former counterterrorism director under presidents Clinton and George W. Bush, there’s really only one way to restore honor to public service: “Have people [join] the government who believe in honesty, integrity and ethics.” This, said Clarke, the main speaker at the University Honor Council’s Integrity Week, is the “best antidote to stupid and corrupt and unethical government.”
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Inside the actors studio
Rose Malague, a senior lecturer in the School of Arts and Sciences’ Theater Arts Program and director of a recent production of “Anton in Show Business,” goes over her notes with actresses during a rehearsal. The show, a comedy by Jane Martin, was onstage at the Annenberg Center’s Studio Theater earlier this month. Photo credit: Mark Stehle
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Skirkanich—an engineering success story
According to Eduardo Glandt, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the architects he chose for his school’s newest building are famous for “over architecting.” They sit in the dark, he said on a recent tour of Skirkanich Hall, “and think and think” about every detail. “Which is just the kind of architect you want.”
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Ahead of the Current: Alejandro Escovedo
When the editors of No Depression magazine—the bible of the alternative country movement—took it upon themselves to name just one artist as the genre’s “Artist of the 1990s,” they passed over such stalwarts as Uncle Tupelo, Steve Earle and Neil Young and instead gave their cover over to a little known singer-songwriter from Mexico named Alejandro Escovedo. “Name another artist who has sustained such a long, varied, and enormously rewarding career,” No Depression wrote at the time.
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Driving ourselves to death?
David Dinges delved into a massive government report to make a connection between the time Americans spend traveling—everything from commuting to running errands—and their sleep habits. Candace diCarlo David Dinges says suburban sprawl may be doing more than gobbling up green space and making Americans over-dependent on their cars. That sprawl, he says, may actually be killing us.
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Pumpkin fever
By The Current Staff This time of year, it’s hard to avoid that perennial symbol of fall, the pumpkin. With Halloween behind us and Thanksgiving on the way, we’re thinking about them less as decoration and more as pie filling. Recently, we combed campus haunts for edible pumpkin treats.
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Page-turners: New books from Penn authors
Sure, you’ve heard their names around campus. Now it’s time to read their work. Here’s just a small sampling of new, recent and upcoming books by Penn authors, all of which are available for sale at the Penn Bookstore. “Closely Observed” In arresting black and white images, photographer (and former internist and anesthesiologist) Baldeck captures the cycle of birth, growth and decline in the botanical world.
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'We cannot live in a vacuum.'
As a former international student himself, Rodolfo Altamirano says he understands the anxieties foreign students face when coming to study in the United States. But Altamirano also knows the world is a very different place today than it was when he left the Philippines, 23 years ago, to pursue a doctorate at Michigan State University.
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Fall fitnessIt’s not too late to melt away the pounds—and keep them off—before the holiday season with PennFit events from the Department of Recreation.
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Archives of Venturi Scott Brown Associates Donated to School of Design at University of Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA -- World-renowned architects and planners Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown have donated the archives of Venturi Scott Brown Associates to the University of Pennsylvania Architectural Archives.The VSBA archives consist of project records, including drawings, models, reports, manuscripts, correspondence and other related material. Also included are teaching records of Venturi and Scott Brown at Penn and other institutions.