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Ask Benny: Is construction taking over Hill Field?

Dear Benny, Walking along 34th Street the other day I noticed that Hill Field is now fenced off in one section, near Walnut, and several yellow earth-moving vehicles have taken up residence. What’s going on? Yet more campus construction? Will there still be enough open space for ultimate Frisbee?—Always on the lookout

A new day for the MBA

Q&A/Wharton’s director of admissions talks about the challenges of attracting top students in a climate that’s turned chilly for business schools everywhere. In Rose Martinelli’s second year as director of admissions at the Wharton School, the school received more applications than ever before. The year was 2001, Enron was in the future, and Wharton’s admissions office received a record 8,400 applications. Martinelli and her team were charged with finding, among thousands of more-than-worthy candidates, the 800 very best.

Back to his musical roots, in the garage

Back in the late 1950s and early 1960s—before the Beatles landed on American soil—groups of young men gathered in garages across the country to form bands and play music. Penn Professor of Sociology William Bielby was one of those young men, as a rhythm guitarist and bassist in the Harvey, Ill., band, The Newports. And he’s made this era of garage rock his recent research focus.

At Work With...Sarah Walsh

Total Undergraduate Charges at the University of Pennsylvania will Increase 5.4 percent for 2005-2006

    PHILADELPHIA -- Total undergraduate charges for tuition, fees, and room and board at the University of Pennsylvania will increase 5.4 percent for the 2005-2006 academic year, bringing the total cost of an undergraduate year to $41,766. The increase was approved today by the Board of Trustees.

‘Fear and loathing’ in the future?

  Top Stories Wharton takes on sports “Fear and loathing” in the future?

Iraq's stolen art problem

ARCHAEOLOGY/Penn Museum raises awareness of looted Iraqi artifacts that turned up in U.S. The eight Iraqi seals currently on display at the Penn Museum are small enough to fit easily in the palm of your hand—a fact that makes them easily transportable, highly collectable and extremely valuable as looted objects. And that’s just what they are.

Out & About: In the groove

In the 2000 film “High Fidelity,” a painfully uncool but well-meaning father enters a dingy record store called Championship Vinyl. He asks the store clerk, played by the manic Jack Black, if the store has the single “I Just Called To Say I Love You” by Stevie Wonder, which he says he wants to buy for his daughter. The clerk, clearly perturbed, tells the man the store does have the single, but adds he’s not allowed to buy it. “Why not?” the man asks.

Welcome to Penn, the virtual version

Dennis Culhane likes to map things. As faculty director of the Cartographic Modeling Lab, the associate professor of social welfare policy has mapped housing trends, homelessness, social services and entire neighborhoods using advanced geographic information system technology—and a lot of legwork. Last year, he saw something that piqued his interest: a virtual 3-D model of Center City that, with a few clicks of the mouse, took the user on a minutely detailed tour through every street, alley and boulevard of the downtown area.

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