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“What comes to mind is Elsie the cow. One of the great icons of history no longer exists.”
Joseph Turow, professor of communication, on how some food companies have come to de-emphasize where the products they sell come from. Borden officials say Elsie’s still around. (The Philadelphia Inquirer, Jan. 19)
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“I think the experience here at Penn plants a seed of what college life could be.”
If Teresa Maddox and Shamara Davis become novelists or literary critics someday, they’ll have Stephanie Perkins-Lane to thank. Okay, that may be stretching it a bit. But in her role as a Penn VIPS mentor, Perkins-Lane is exposing the two Sulzberger Middle School students to both the worlds of work and academic life while providing them with emotional support and encouragement.
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“Greater Perfections: The Practice of Garden Theory”
John Dixon Hunt 288 pages, 138 black-and-white illustrations, $35 cloth Gardening is usually thought of as a practical activity, but a new book by John Dixon Hunt, professor of landscape architecture and chair of the department of landscape architecture and regional planning, explores the conceptual basis of garden art. The book takes a large-scale view of the garden in human culture and treats the garden as the epitome of place-making — or what is nowadays termed landscape architecture.
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Not just freaks and geeks and guys
Think of the word “scientist” and the word “mad” seems to pop up unbidden onto the mental viewing screen. Dr. Frankenstein. Dr. Strangelove. Dr. Evil. That’s exactly the image of scientists that a new program for middle school girls wants to combat. “The stereotype of wild-haired, wild-eyed people doing science is just that — a stereotype,” said Christine Massey, director of Pennlincs, an educational outreach program of the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science. “Lots of interesting people all over the world do science, not just socially inept nerds.”
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Praise the Lord and the folks
For all his earthly and heavenly connections, the Rev. William H. Gray III, former U.S. congressman from Philadelphia and now president and chief executive officer of the United Negro College Fund, was stuck in the air. His transportation connections failed him on the evening of the region’s first snowfall.
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A child caught in a cultural war
On the issue of the international custody flap over 6-year-old Cuban Elian Gonzalez, who was rescued from waters off the coast of Florida when the boat smuggling him and his mother to the U.S. capsized, we asked two professors with an interest in custody issues to comment.
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Our Oscar picks
It appears that Oscar fever hasn’t spread that widely across the campus this year: One of our reporters on Locust Walk reports that most of the students had no idea who deserved Oscars. But we did manage to find enough movie buffs with Academy Awards predictions to spot a couple of favorites: “American Beauty” for Best Picture and Matt Damon (“The Talented Mr. Ripley”) for Best Actor.
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An impresario promotes local culture
What do MTV Online’s list of top local music events of 1999, Benjamin Netanyahu’s October visit to campus, Def Comedy Jam’s sold-out December show, and the 1999 Spring Fling concert have in common? The fact that they may never have been possible without the involvement and dedication of Jon Herrmann (W’00).
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SAS Vice Dean appointed
Ramin Sedehi, M.P.A., was appointed Vice Dean for Finance and Administration in the School of Arts and Sciences, to be effective March 20. He will oversee matters of budget, facilities, computer and human resources, replacing Mike Mandl who left last semester to assume a vice presidency at Duke University, and replacing Interim Vice Dean Tom Stump from the School of Engineering and Applied Science, who will stay on until Sedehi arrives.
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Andrew March
You could probably call Andrew March (C’00) a citizen of the world. He’s lived on both sides of the Atlantic. He had studied five languages by the time he applied to Penn. His wife, Munhtuya Altangerel (C’99), is from Mongolia. And he’s spent much of his undergraduate career traveling to global hot spots — Northern Ireland, Palestine, Bosnia, Kosovo.