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Tutu to speak Archbishop Desmond Tutu will speak at the University’s 247th Commencement in May. The first black secretary general of the South African Council of Churches, Tutu won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his work against apartheid. He is the author of several books, including “No Future Without Forgiveness” and “The Rainbow People of God.”

Campus Buzz

The big day finally arrives: Vice President Dick Cheney and a few hundred of Jon M. Huntsman’s (W’57) closest friends started the Jon M. Huntsman Hall celebration with a private get-together the morning of Oct. 25. The evening, however, belonged to the entire campus, with an official dedication and open house that started at 5 p.m. Huntsman made an impassioned plea for putting humane and ethical values uppermost in business—and in business education—in his speech at the ceremony.

A look at this winter’s hot teams

The fall sports season drawing to a close has been mostly successful for Penn’s varsity teams, with football undefeated in Ivy League play as of press time and sprint football and men’s soccer also posting winning seasons. But the recent chill in the air serves as a reminder that the winter season approaches. What are the teams to watch this season, and what are their prospects? We asked the Athletic Department staff and team coaches for their assessments.

Staff Q&A: Tony Aiello

Tony Aiello is a patient man. He has just returned from his first botanical specimen-hunting trip to China with a cache of seeds from six species of oaks, two of which have never been seen by botanists before, a rare species of maple and a relative of the elm tree. He will plant them in the greenhouse at the Morris Arboretum and he will wait. Some seeds take up to two years just to germinate. It will be years before they can be moved outdoors.

Careers and holiday help from free HR programs

Energize your career with these classes from Human Resources. For course locations and more information, call 215-898-3400 or visit www.hr.upenn.edu/learning. Registration required. Marc Buckingham on Great Management

“Some of these people, if their spouses said, ‘breathe for the next half-hour,’ they’d try to hold their breaths.”

—James Coyne, professor of psychiatry, on how a bad marriage can negatively impact an individual’s health (The New York Times, Oct. 22)

Hollywood, County Kerry

It’s a familiar film plot: Hollywood movie crew invades bucolic small town and turns the world upside down. This time, though, the small town is in County Kerry, Ireland, and the sendup of the American star-making machine takes place on the live stage, not the soundstage.

Bookquick/“Emblems of Desire: Selections from the ‘Délie’ of Maurice Scève”

Beyond the Big Bang

Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy Mark Devlin is having a BLAST. That stands for Balloon-borne Large Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope, a NASA project designed to view some of the oldest galaxies in the universe. Penn heads up a four-school collaboration on the project, and Devlin is in charge of Penn’s portion. But before he could look for new star clusters, he had to find a place on campus to assemble the largest balloon-borne telescope ever built.

Prices are fairer than you think—no, really

Sticker shock—that’s the feeling you get when you go to make a purchase, flip over the tag and are blown away by the higher-than-expected asking price. For example, when you go to the movies for the first time in a long while and are shocked to find that an Alexander Hamilton covers only the price of one ticket (forget about the popcorn and soda). If you’re like most consumers, you suspect price gouging. Yet according to Lisa Bolton, assistant professor of marketing at Wharton, prices may be fairer than many of us think.