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"I see myself as an extended parent to a lot of the kids."
When Willard Cooper Jr. heard the University was eager to contribute a Penn police officer to start and run a new Police Athletic League center at the nearby Wilson School, he jumped at the chance. Under his leadership, the Tucker PAL has made it to the city finals of the PAL Challenge, a “Jeopardy!”-like game, the past two years. “We surprised everyone,” he said of a team that before then hadn’t shown much promise.
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"Kitchen Culture in America: Popular Representations of Food, Gender, and Race
At supermarkets across the nation, customers waiting in line—mostly female—flip through magazines displayed at the checkout stand. On those magazine racks are countless images of food and women: moms preparing lunch for the team, college roommates baking together, working women whipping up a meal in under an hour, dieters happy to find a low-fat ice cream that tastes great. In everything from billboards and product packaging to cooking shows and movies, food, according to Sherrie Inness, has a presence that conveys powerful gender-coded messages that shape our society.
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Michael Rose
The stage was dark at the Annenberg Center far too often when Michael Rose arrived at Penn three years ago. Since then, he’s lit up the stage not only at Annenberg, but in Irvine Auditorium and other places on campus.
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African AIDS discussed
Participants in a day-long conference here on the African AIDS crisis found many things to blame. Panelists blamed the stigma, taboos and denial that surround the disease in Africa. They bemoaned the cultural attitudes that give men control over all sexual encounters and ostracize women who ask their partners to use condoms. They decried corruption, governmental incompetence and the lack of medical infrastructure in many African countries.
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The sacred and erotic meet with Rev Bev
The Rev. Beverly Dale stood preaching to her expectant flock in a soothing voice that sounded a little like Mr. Rogers. But the topic, “Celebrating the Sacred Erotic: A God of Pleasure,” was not exactly children’s television material. Dale’s presentation was the first public Christian Association event since the CA’s early-January relocation from its cavernous home on Locust Walk to a more compact space in Tabernacle Church at 37th and Sansom.
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Theater dramatizes issues of respect
It’s official University policy that everyone deserves respect in the workplace. But making sure that happens isn’t so much a matter of administrators handing down decrees as it is one of colleagues letting each other know where the boundaries are. To help its faculty and staff understand how to negotiate those boundaries, the School of Engineering and Applied Science brought the Cornell Interactive Theatre Ensemble (CITE) to campus last month for some educational drama.
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Cool tools
Judging from all the people on campus sprouting cell phones, portable music players, Palm Pilots, laptop computers and other high-tech gadgets, it might seem that everyone is indeed rushing to prove that he who has the most toys when he dies, wins. Hold on a minute, though. Most of the folks we asked about high-tech playthings actually put them to some practical use. In fact, some people are so practical that their favorite gadgets are decidedly low-tech.
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Hoop dreamer eyes the championship
Basketball star and team captain Diana Caramanico (W’01) is always up for a challenge. In her senior year in high school she asked the men’s waterpolo coaches if she could join the team. They were shocked. She wasn’t good at swimming and all the boys were big, fast and strong. So while she went to extra practices to work on her swimming, her long arms were natural for blocking polo shots. “After the second day I knew I loved it,” she said with a smile. “Besides, the offense that you run is just like basketball.”
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Africa, live and on film
February is Black History Month. So perhaps it’s no coincidence that two major events within a week celebrate the continent every African-American ultimately hails from. First up is the University of Pennsylvania Museum’s 12th annual Celebration of African Cultures, a day-long festival Feb. 17 featuring music, dance, arts and crafts, games, animals, African food and much more.
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$20m for aid, more
George Weiss (W’65) has said yes to Penn again — in a big way. Weiss’ Say Yes to Education foundation has donated $20 million to the University to enhance campus life, support faculty and strengthen financial aid. Nearly one-third of the gift, or $6 million, will go to financial aid, including a $5 million challenge fund that will provide one dollar for every two new dollars raised.