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For The Record: Breaking the Big Five barrier
Before 1963, Philadelphia’s other college basketball teams had little to fear from Penn basketball. Though the Quakers won the occasional Ivy League championship, critics refused to believe Penn could win the title that really mattered to local hoop-heads: The Big 5 championship.
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After the storm
In partnership with the Penn Institute for Urban Research (IUR), Provost Ronald Daniels has organized a conference on urban rebuilding to follow up on his well-attended post-Katrina symposium on risk and disaster” in D.C. last month. This second conference, to be held Feb. 2-3, will take place on campus and will feature a panel of leading national experts including scholars from Penn.
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On a roll in West Philly
In many ways, bowling is the perfect group activity. People of all skill levels can play together—the league player can take the lane alongside a novice—and for the most part, it’s still a reasonably priced activity. Also, it’s rare that anyone gets hurt (though you may get a sore muscle or two from crouching and hurling an eight to 14-pound ball down an oiled lane).
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A homecoming for Dr. Gutmann
President Amy Gutmann took to the dance floor on a recent visit to India, where she met with alumni and friends of Penn in Mumbai. Gutmann hosted a January 5 alumni event that drew more than 300 people and featured a magnificent performance by the Penn student a capella group Penn Masala, which traveled from Philadelphia for the event. Later in the week, Gutmann was the capstone speaker at the Wharton Global Alumni Forum, also in Mumbai, where she told the audience how this was literally a homecoming: Her father fled Nazi Germany in 1934 and found refuge in Mumbai.
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Staff Q&A: Maria Tessa Sciarrino
STAFF Q&A/A booster for the local music scene, Maria Tessa Sciarrino can’t get enough of the Philadelphia sound. “I think it’s great that everybody’s getting the attention.” Maria Tessa Sciarrino studied photography in college, but admits she wasn’t the best student: “I was too busy going to concerts.”
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Are kids really safer in SUVs? Researcher says maybe not
Dennis Durbin has spent the last half-decade combing through data on thousands of car crashes, and the injuries suffered by children in those accidents. In recent years, one trend in particular began to catch his eye. The number of SUVs on the road was steadily increasing—as was the number of children injured in crashes involving SUVs.
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Kadima faces big questions
By most accounts, the health of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon remains stable—but serious enough that few in the press expect him to return to public life. Sharon suffered his major stroke on Jan. 4, about a month and a half after the prime minister broke from the right-leaning Likud party to form the centrist Kadima party. While many expect Kadima will win a majority in the March 28 general election, based on several polls taken since Sharon was hospitalized, this centrist party has an uncertain future.
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Movable Feast: Hoagies
By THE CURRENT STAFF Given that we here at The Current are, at best, amateur foodies, it was probably presumptuous of us to think we could judge who made the best Italian hoagie in University City. This is the Italian hoagie, after all—the sandwich that, were it not for the mighty cheesesteak, would reign supreme over all other Philadelphia sandwiches. Who were we to judge?
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ASK BENNY: What happened to Vet Hospital's ‘park’?
Dear Benny, Where do the animals at the Ryan Veterinary Hospital go to “mark their territory” and relieve themselves now that the dog park—which used to be at the corner of 39th and Spruce—has been paved over into a small parking lot? — Curious About Canines Dear Pooch Advocate, We wondered what happened to that little park, too, and so we hounded the Vet School for an answer.
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"Rap, Race and Black-Asian Relations"
WHO: Jeff Chang, writer and author of "Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation"Kenyon Farrow, writer, activist, co-editor of "Letters from Young Activists" and culture editor for Clamor magazine Walidah Imarisha, poet, independent journalist and founder of The Rearguard and AWOL magazinesWHAT: Panel discussion on rap music and race relations WHEN: Feb. 1, 2006, 6-8 p.m.WHERE: University of Pennsylvania, Room 360 Huntsman Hall, 3730, Walnut St.