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Dorms, housing, houses
The nostalgia of Homecoming Weekend found its antidote in a talk on the future of campus living. About 30 alums, students and architecture fans looked at slides and listened to how Hamilton Village — still referred to as Superblock — and the Quad will be transformed architecturally to support the around-the-clock community-living model that college houses offer.
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Help is here for child welfare woes
Children whose lives are touched by the country’s child welfare system have a new protector. Since September 1999, the Center for Children’s Policy, Practice and Research (CCPPR) has been working to help such children and the systems that deal with them.
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"Those who dabbled in the Web this time will have a competitive advantage next time around."
Steven Schneider, post-doctoral fellow at the Annenberg Public Policy Center, on the integration of the Internet into political campaigns (Dallas Morning News, Nov. 8)
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We were all broke singers and decided we wanted to do something for the community.
ÒIÕm a little bit of a Christmas music fanatic,Ó admits Carla Spataro. ÒI listen to it all the time. Ten years ago she turned this passion into an organization, the Voices For Children Foundation (VFCF), which has released six Christmas music recordings, given numerous holiday concerts, and raised more than $100,000 for children living with or impacted by AIDS.
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A Statistician's View on Ballot Recounts: More Is Better
PHILADELPHIA As the Bush and Gore campaigns debate whether further ballot recounts in Florida will yield a more or less exact result, Dennis M. DeTurck, Ph.D., professor of mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania, says that more ballot recounting not less is most likely to produce a statistically accurate outcome in the Florida election. Dr. DeTurck analysis indicates that to reach 95 percent certainty of the results in Florida, the votes would actually need to be counted roughly 16 times, with the 16 separate results then averaged.
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New Book Explores the Importance and Volatility of Moral Education
PHILADELPHIA - Two University of Pennsylvania professors have written a book that explores the often overlooked centrality of moral education in public schools and the controversies that surround both its premises and pedagogy. "The Moral Stake in Education: Contested Premises and Practices" by Joan Goodman and Howard Lesnick will be released in early December by Allyn and Bacon.
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University of Pennsylvania Library Collection Reaches Five Million Volumes with Donations from World Leaders
PHILADELPHIA - The University of Pennsylvania Library's newest volumes include books donated by more than 50 world leaders, including Pope John Paul II, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, and King Fahd of Saudi Arabia. The works range from a modern CD to historic literature several hundred years old.
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Penn Chemist Ralph F. Hirschmann Among 12 Scientists Selected to Receive the 2000 National Medal of Science
PHILADELPHIA President Bill Clinton announced today that University of Pennsylvania chemist Ralph F. Hirschmann, Ph.D., is among 12 recipients of the 2000 National Medal of Science. Hirschmann and his fellow honorees will receive their medals at a White House dinner Dec. 1.
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NIH Director Named Vice Provost for Research
PHILADELPHIA --- Dr. Neal Nathanson, a renowned microbiologist and until recently the director of the Office of AIDS Research at the National Institutes of Health, has been named vice provost for research at the University of Pennsylvania, according to an announcement today by Provost Robert L. Barchi. In September, Nathanson stepped down from his position with the NIH, where he had served as director of the Office of AIDS Research since 1998. He will assume his position with Penn Dec. 1.
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When a college house is a home
I almost feel like Hemingway while sitting in the forest-green wicker chairs inside Café Prima. However, there are no bulls, I probably won’t get into a fight and Harrison College House is nowhere near Paris. Maybe I feel more like John Cusack. When I first heard that there was a café in a student residence hall, my first thought was of Pop-Tarts and single servings of scorching hot Ellis coffee. Then again, I went to a state school. Café Prima is something else. It has everything that Starbucks has at a fraction of the cost.