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Out & About: Conquering Van Pelt
Surely you know where the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library is, even if you haven’t been inside. The massive brick building takes up more than a block along Walnut Street (between 34th and 36th), and faces College Green, the very heart of campus. Claes Oldenberg’s “Split Button,” one of the most recognizable sculptures on campus, sits right in front of the steps.
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Staff Q&A: Jeanne Arnold
Jeanne Arnold says affirmative action is no longer just about ensuring people access to opportunities. That much, she says, is now assured, thanks to laws recently upheld by the Supreme Court.
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Bookquick/“Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents”
“I have been a character in academic fiction at least twice,” Elaine Showalter writes, “once a voluptuous, promiscuous, drug-addicted bohemian, once a prudish, dumpy, judgmental frump. I hope I am not too easily identified in either of these guises . . . although I can tell you that I preferred being cast as the luscious Concord grape to my role as the withered prune.”
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Cool Composer
Anytime you hear a score in a Spike Lee film, chances are, it’s the work of Terence Blanchard. The 41-year-old trumpeter began composing film scores in 1991, for Lee’s “Jungle Fever,” and has continued with last year’s “She Hate Me.” Along the way, Blanchard has snagged several Grammy-award nominations (most recently, for his song, “Lost in a Fog,” from his 2001 release, “Let’s Get Lost”) and has handily composed scores for a few films not directed by Lee, such as 2002’s “Barbershop” and “Love and Basketball” (2000).
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Enron as an omen
Stephen Cooper is in the business of saving businesses. From Polaroid to Enron, Cooper has made a career of rebuilding bankrupt or near-bankrupt companies done in by poor leadership and shoddy business practices. Looking into the future, he doesn’t think he’ll have any problem finding more work.
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Stacking the deck in Philly’s favor
Gaming is coming to Philadelphia. Legislation passed last summer in Harrisburg has paved the way for the city to receive two 5,000-slot-machine gaming parlors by 2007, and City Hall has no legal say in their location or design. That’s the bad news. The silver lining—other than the promised wage tax cuts parlor profits will yield—is that Penn Design students are getting involved in finding a slot solution for the city.
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Movable Feast: Eat your breakfast!
Breakfast. It’s the most important meal of the day. It’s the vital sustenance that gets you going first thing in the morning and keeps you going until the sweet relief that is lunch. Skip your breakfast, doctors say, and you’re asking for trouble. University City offers plenty of options for the discerning breakfaster who left the house with an empty stomach. Here are some of the highlights. On the cheap
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Greening boosts home prices—here’s the proof
RESEARCH/Wharton professor comes up with the facts and figures that show neighborhood greening is a sound investment. Flowers, as you’d expect, take center stage at the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s annual Flower Show. But as you wander the rose-scented aisles this year (March 6-13), you may notice a small booth that features nothing floral at all but showcases some of the most important work done by PHS—the greening of Philadelphia.
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Cookbooks
If you’re crazy about food and the master chefs and experts behind some of your favorite dishes, then mark your calendars from March 11 through 20 for the regional celebration, “KitchenAid The Book and The Cook.” In the neighborhood, three venues will be turned into food havens: the Penn Museum (3260 South St.), World Café Live (3025 Walnut St.) and Abbraccio (820 S. 47th St.). For a complete list of events, go to www.thebookandthecook.com. Friday, March 11
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Catholics left in limbo?
Popes do not retire. They have been forced out of office and have died while in office, but only one sitting pope, Pope Celestine V, has ever resigned his office, doing so in 1294. “ Dante called it ‘The Great Refusal,’” says E. Ann Matter, professor and chair of Penn’s Department of Religious Studies. “It touched off the debate, afterward, of whether the papacy was an office for life or if a pope could resign. And nobody has since resigned. … It sort of made the idea that the nature of the papacy is a lifetime commitment, and you just don’t step away from it.”