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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.
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Debate in China no oxymoron when it comes to divorce
Marriage is a hot issue on the lips of citizens in China, and the intensity of the debate has taken Chinese officials by surprise. So said Harvard University’s William Alford, the Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law, in his Jan. 30 talk at Williams Hall entitled “Have You Eaten? Have You Jumped Into the Sea? Have You Divorced?: Marriage, Divorce and Competing Conceptions of Freedom in the People’s Republic of China.” The brouhaha is over a new marriage law in the making. The draft has been put up for consideration in the Chinese legislature, the National People’s Congress.
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No more Mr. Nice World for war crime
With the beginning of the 21st century, the world has become a decidedly uncomfortable — indeed dangerous — place for perpetrators of major human rights violations. This is somewhat surprising. From the end of the Nuremberg trials through the 1990s, the international legal system gave all indications of not pursuing the ground-breaking precedent those trials had established.
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For a 3-D view from afar, try tele-immersion
Imagine a three-dimensional view, from across the continent or the ocean, of a heart operation — a view with the same kind of clarity and depth of field that being right in the operating room offers. With a setup like that, a doctor could teach a new surgical procedure simultaneously to hundreds or even thousands of others all over the world.