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Cherry blossom time
No need to schlep all the way to Washington to catch the cherry trees in bloom when you can catch this rite of spring right here at the Morris Arboretum.
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Neighbors welcome school
Despite bitter cold, the neighbors were out in force for the groundbreaking for the new neighborhood school at 42nd and Spruce Streets March 1. The preK-8 school is a cooperative effort of the University, the School District of Philadelphia and the teachers union. “I think this school’s going to be an incredible resource,” said neighbor Kate Stover, 44, with her children Lydia Wood, 6, Henry Wood, 3, and husband Tim Wood.
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Election 2000: when the law doesn’t count
The Florida election law was clearly incomplete, and into the gaps jumped the political strategy of both the Bush and Gore camps, and also the politically motivated discretion of public officials charged with important but incompletely regulated functions under the law. Gore could challenge the vote tallies precisely in the places where he was most likely to pick up votes while ignoring counties that might have had more votes for Bush. But it was, apparently, not only a perfectly legal challenge under the statute as written but the only sort of legal challenge envisioned in the law.
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Time to think about summer camp
Yes, it’s still cool out, and the flowers have yet to bloom. But now is the time to get your junior athlete enrolled in one of the many summer sports camps offered at Penn. Day and overnight camps offer kids a chance to learn new skills with Quaker coaches and players and participate in other stimulating activities. To get more information about the camps listed below, including registration fees and deadlines, call the contact person listed for each camp.
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Students show Shakespeare is meant for the stage, not the page
It’s almost like something out of one of those old Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland movies. A couple of students meet for lunch, talk for a while, and then one of them says, “Hey! Let’s put on Shakespeare!” “That’s just about how it happened,” said Nigel Caplan, a master’s student in the Graduate School of Education who, along with Akiva Fox (C’02), started the Underground Shakespeare Company in January after a lunchtime chat led the two to conclude that the campus was ready for low-budget, high-fun Shakespeare plays.
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Scientists Receive $3 Million to Develop Biologically-based Artificial Vision Systems
PHILADELPHIA A team of researchers from three universities, led by a University of Pennsylvania bioengineer, has won a $3 million grant for work toward artificial-vision technologies that might detect patterns as robustly as the human brain. The work could lead to satellite-based means of detecting environmental destruction, automated systems to detect abnormalities in mammograms and other medical images and computerized approaches to other tasks now possible only through the discretion of the human eye.
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University of Pennsylvania Study Finds Evidence Of Telephone-Based Discrimination in Housing Rentals
PHILADELPHIA Voice mail has become a way for some housing rental agents to discriminate on the basis of race, class and gender. A just released University of Pennsylvania study offers strong new evidence for the existence of telephone-based discrimination in the rental housing market and concludes that some rental agents discriminate by using linguistic cues to screen callers over the phone. The study, conducted in Philadelphia and its suburbs by Penn sociologist Douglas Massey, postdoctoral fellow Garvey Lundy and undergraduate students, concluded that:
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University Of Pennsylvania Prof. Ian McHarg Dies
PHILADELPHIA Ian L. McHarg, 80, an Emeritus Professor of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania, died Monday, March 5 of pulmonary disease at Chester County Hospital. Born in Scotland on November 20, 1920, Prof. McHarg was a U.S. citizen and lived in Unionville, Pa. He was the founder of the Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning Department at Penn and was perhaps best known for introducing environmental concerns in landscape architecture.
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Faith, hope and charity
The words pour out in rivers when John DiIulio Jr. (C’80) starts talking about his latest big project, running the new White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. The Philly native was picked by President George W. Bush to head the office because DiIulio furnishes secular, scholarly heft to an initiative that some skeptics see as opening a crack in the wall of separation between church and state.
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One system, under Penn, indivisible
The Health System will be neither dismantled nor sold, President Judith Rodin announced Friday after meeting with the Trustees. The steps the University is taking will allow the Health System to respond more quickly in the volatile health care marketplace while maintaining the Health System’s missions of teaching, research and patient care.