5/18
News Archives
A complete list of stories featured on Penn Today.
Filter Stories
Displaying 17281 - 17290 of 18049
Archive ・ Penn Current
The Sound of Philadelphia in motion
You probably danced to “The Sound of Philadelphia” at a lot of parties in the ’80s. Now it’s the pros’ turn. To kick off the Dance Celebration/Next Move 2000 Millennium Series, the renowned Philadelphia Dance Company (Philadanco) will present the world premiere of a new work set to music from the vaults of Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff’s Philadelphia International Records, whose artists dominated the R&B charts through the 1970s and 1980s. The as-yet-untitled piece by Dwight Rhoden, commissioned by Dance Celebration, will be peformed on Nov. 18 and 19.
Archive ・ Penn Current
Nielsen lauds Darrow at Law School
He may not be Clarence Darrow, but, despite what he’ll have you believe, Leslie Nielsen is no Frank Drebin either. That became apparent during a recent question-and-answer session held with the actor at the Penn Law School. The Oct. 25 event was a day after Nielsen’s Irvine Auditorium performance of “Clarence Darrow,” a one-man show. The session, entitled “The Law as Theater,” was moderated by Theatre Arts Lecturer Rose Malague and Law Professor Peter Huang.
Archive ・ Penn Current
Is it the end of the world as we know it?
I’m a skeptic on this whole “millennium end-of-the-world” thing. But if there’s one thing I’m sure of, it’s that the new millennium begins on January 1, 2001 — not 2000. So I took my skepticism with me to a symposium at Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Oct. 22 held in conjunction with “American Apocalypse: Images of the End from the Millennium Watch Archive,” an exhibit there of a collection of literature that reflects belief in a global change at the end of the century.
Archive ・ Penn Current
Public education is every citizen’s responsibility
I liken the failure of our public school system to The Great Philadelphia Smoke Detector Giveaway. The Philadelphia Fire Department (PFD) went door-to-door, giving residents of certain neighborhoods a free smoke detector. The firemen even installed them, on the theory that 400 free smoke detectors proved more cost-effective than fighting a single fire.
Archive ・ Penn Current
So, how’s the chow?
Over the summer, Penn hired Bon Appétit to manage its dining-hall kitchens. The company has a reputation for quality and creativity in food service, and Café Bon Appétit in International House leads us to believe that they deserve it. But do the people who eat their fare every day agree? Many did — but what some considered pluses, others considered minuses.
Archive ・ Penn Current
Alcohol policy is a drop in the bucket
Mark Metzl (C’00) did not want to be photographed with a bottle of alcohol. Metzl acknowledges, “The alcohol issues probably define my term as [IFC] president, but I’d like to think my personality goes beyond that.”
Archive ・ Penn Current
"Witchcraft and Magic in Europe"
Ancient Greece and Rome $24.95 Paper, 408 pages The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries $24.95 Paper, 376 pages The Twentieth Century $24.95 Paper, 256 pages Edited by Bengt Ankarloo and Stuart Clark For two millennia, European folklore and ritual have been imbued with the belief in the supernatural. Take the story of an elderly woman who, when stopped by customs officials outside of Naples in 1921, was found to be carrying the head of a goat with 42 nails driven into it and was not allowed to leave until the head was destroyed by a priest.
Archive ・ Penn Current
Subjects matter at GSE
Did your ninth-grade biology teacher major in biology in college? Did your sixth-grade math teacher even have a minor in mathematics? Chances are, they did not. But increasingly, schools are looking for teachers who at least have a bachelor’s degree in the subjects they teach — particularly in the areas of math, science and foreign languages. That is why the Graduate School of Education is expanding its level of cooperation with other departments, allowing students, for example, to earn two degrees, one in their subject area and one in education.
Archive ・ Penn Current
$11 million donated
The largest gift ever made to the University for undergraduate student financial aid was donated recently by Jay H. Baker (W’56), the president of Kohl’s Corporation, the Wisconsin-based specialty department store chain, and his wife, Patty. Three million dollars of the $11 million gift, announced Oct. 7 by President Judith Rodin, will endow the Baker Leadership Scholars Program, providing financial support to undergraduates throughout the University.
Archive ・ Penn Current
Memoirist Maynard gets real
Literary bad girl Joyce Maynard, who has been publicly spanked by her numerous critics during the year since she published her memoir “At Home in the World,” spoke at Kelly Writers House on November 2. Her memoir deals with growing up in an alcoholic family, the expectations put on her by her brilliant parents and the affair she had, as an 18-year-old, with famed writer J.D. Salinger. It was her writing about this last item that drew vociferous criticism; many believed that the private life of Salinger, a known recluse, should not have been revealed.