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Expert Comment Available on Dover, Pa., Intelligent Design Case
Expert Comment Available on Dover, Pa., Intelligent Design Case from the University of Pennsylvania Note to TV producers and assignment editors: The University of Pennsylvania has an on-campus television studio with live-shot capability for interviews with Penn experts.With the decision in the Dover Intelligent Design case pending, the University of Pennsylvania offers experts who can provide commentary on the facts surrounding the case, the teaching of evolution and the science of evolutionary biology. Teaching Science
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Ask Benny: Harvard or Penn? Which stadium is older?
Illustration by Bo Brown Columns Ask Benny: Harvard or Penn? Which stadium is older? Out and About: Reading the leaves
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Bedtime
Viola, lap steel guitar and banjo, along with piano, traditional percussion and lovely, delicate vocals, make up the sound of local musicians Buried Beds, named “Best Band 2004” by Philadelphia Magazine. The group fuses an indie rock sensibility with the sorrow and beauty of Appalachian songwriting. One review called the music “angsty, heart-on-the-sleeve melancholia that sounds both winsome and wise.” These successful locals—part of the West Philly denizen of musicians, artists and creative types who make up the New Planet Collective—play two shows in very different venues this month.
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Movable Feast: Abyssinia
Columns Ask Benny: Harvard or Penn? Which stadium is older? Out and About: Reading the leaves
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The power of the (letter) press
Three traditional letterpresses recently took up residence in the basement studio of the Morgan Building, home to Penn’s undergraduate fine arts program. Two of the presses are from the 1960s and one is from the mid 19th century, and except for the electricity that powers one of the rollers on the 20th-century presses, the entire printing process is done by hand.
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Q&A with Peter Fader
Peter Fader holds up what appears to be a regular compact disc and asks, "Do you know what this is?"No, it's not just a CD. This shiny plastic object is actually a CD on one side and a DVD on the other—something known as a dual disc.Has the public heard of it? Not likely. Should record companies promote this heavily? Definitely, says Fader, since it's his opinion that this little silver gadget—along with streaming audio—will save the ailing music industry.Now, if only industry professionals will listen.
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Reading the leaves
BY JUDY HILL Columns Ask Benny: Harvard or Penn? Which stadium is older? Out and About: Reading the leaves
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At work with...Sandy Ramos
WHO SHE IS: Assistant Manager of PennCom Operations Columns News briefsAt Work With Sandy Ramos
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Getting it right for radio
Having worked in radio for the past quarter century, Roger LaMay has learned a thing or two about the unique challenge of writing for radio: You have only one chance to get it right.“You have to write for radio in such a way that people ‘get it’ the first time,” says LaMay, general manager of WXPN-FM. “You’re not going to get to read it over again. It’s got to be clear. It has to grab the listener’s attention. You’re writing for listeners, not for readers.”
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Staff Q&A: Peter Agree
Peter Agree has grown used to people misunderstanding his job. As an acquisitions editor at Cornell University Press—where he spent 17 years before coming to Penn—Agree remembers the phone calls he would field after 5 o’clock, when the switchboard was closed for the day. “I used to get calls from people wanting to know movie times” in the college town, he says. “They thought we were that kind of press.”