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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

‘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.

Conference call

The first annual Spiegel Symposium comes to Penn March 17 to 18, complete with lectures, films and panel discussions on art and culture, all in conjunction with the ongoing Barry Le Va exhibition at the ICA, 118 S. 36th St. The symposium, titled “Resistance,” will explore that theme—from protests to punk rock—in the culture and politics of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Highlights include a lecture by Le Va, Bykert Gallery founder Klaus Kertess and a keynote address on March 18 by cultural critic Greil Marcus.

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.

"Justice Talking" Wins American Women in Radio and Television Gracie Award

PHILADELPHIA-- "Justice Talking," produced by the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania and distributed by National Public Radio, has been awarded an AWRT Gracie Allen award, its third Gracie Award in as many years.  The award honors exemplary work created for women, by women and about women in all facets of electronic media.The "Justice Talking" show garnering the award was "Gender Discrimination in the Workplace."  The program explored topics such as the glass ceiling and workplace protections for women.