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Editor's Pick: Docufest comes of age
For its 10th anniversary, the Margaret Mead Traveling Film and Video Festival pays tribute to its namesake. The festival’s opening program, “Coming of Age,” on Friday, April 19 at 7:30 p.m., features works that offer a glimpse of Mead herself (Jean Rouch’s “Margaret Mead: A Portrait by a Friend”) and contemporary perspectives on two of the worlds she inhabited, Samoa and Greenwich Village (Amiel Courtin-Wilson’s “Islands” and Remy Weber’s “Why Pay Two Rents,” respectively).
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Kids enroll now While the school year isn’t over yet, the Penn-assisted school is already thinking about next year’s batch of new students. Registration for students enrolling in kindergarten and grades 1, 2, 5 and 6 is now taking place noon to 5 p.m. Mondays and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesdays at the school’s Planning Office, located at 43rd and Spruce streets. If the child is already in the Philadelphia public schools, bring proof of residency in the catchment area.
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Architect Rem Koolhaas to Lecture at Penn
PHILADELPHIA Rem Koolhaas, world-renowned architect and recipient of the esteemed Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2000, will present an illustrated lecture on his current projects, including the new Prada Store which opened in New York City SoHo in December 2001, at the University of Pennsylvania on Monday, April 8. He will be introduced by Penn Trustee Leonard Lauder, Chairman of The Estee Lauder Companies and Chairman of the Board of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Anxious Penn Applicants Discover Their Destiny Online
PHILADELPHIA For applicants to the University of Pennsylvania Class of 2006, how quickly they learn about acceptance is dependent not on "snail mail" but on the speed of their Internet connections.While thousands of college applicants around the country anxiously check their mailboxes, looking for fat envelopes that tell them theye been accepted to the colleges of their dreams, applicants to Penn can simply log on to the University admissions Web site.
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Penn's Ira Harkavy Awarded 2002 Ehrlich Faculty Award
PHILADELPHIA Ira Harkavy, associate vice president and director of the Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania, has been awarded the 2002 Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service Learning. The award recognizes outstanding faculty contributions for integrating service into the curriculum and for efforts to institutionalize service learning at colleges and universities.
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Penn’s Nunery to Detail Role of Commercial Enterprise in Collaborative Urban Development Initiatives
PHILADELPHIA In just five years, the West Philadelphia neighborhoods adjacent to the University of Pennsylvania, have gone from unsafe, blighted and trash-strewn to safe, clean and "happening" places to live, work and have fun.Leroy D. Nunery, vice president of business services for Penn, will review the lessons learned from Penn urban-development initiative at the April 9-10 conference, "Creative Redevelopment Partnerships: The Role of the Urban University." The conference will be hosted by Saint Louis University and The Urban Land Institute.
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Exhibitions on Display at Penn's Architectural Archives
PHILADELPHIA -- Two exhibits will open to the public April 9 and run through September in the University of Pennsylvania's Kroiz Gallery of the Architectural Archives, 220 S. 34th St."From the Ground Up: Approaches to Architecture and Landscape Design."
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Crime Stopper
“I’m glad I put your coat in this closet. It reminds me that I promised to get this book off to Cherie.” Lawrence Sherman, director of the Jerry Lee Center for Criminology, has lots of friends in high places these days. Locally, Sherman was known for his close relationship with former Police Commissioner John Timoney. But it turns out he’s made friends across the pond as well, with Cherie Booth, a British magistrate who happens to be the wife of Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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People's Choice: Philly reads at College and Bennett halls
One city, one book? Mayor Street has suggested that we do as the Chicagoans did and discuss a single tome. But which one? Not everyone we spoke to in College and Bennett Halls was on the same page when we asked for their choices. Lark Hall Professor, English “Oh, that’s an interesting question. I would have to say instantly ‘The Price of a Child’ by Lorene Cary. It’s set in Philadelphia and it’s fiction. It has a range to it so it can be read by kids and adults. It’s about slavery and oppression so it’s very relevant.”
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“Nobody on ‘Friends’ ever says, ‘I’ll be right back, I have to go to church.’”
—Richard J. Gelles, interim dean of the School of Social Work, on a recent study by the school which found that youth considered religion important in their lives (The Times Union [Albany, N.Y.], March 3)