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Rape is as Greek as the Parthenon
White togas…bearded philosophers…marble pillars…and rape? Which one doesn’t seem to mesh with ancient Greece? If you said “rape,” Ed Harris, a classical studies professor at Brooklyn College, would beg to differ with you. Speaking to an intimate crowd of classical studies scholars in Logan Hall in November, Harris opened his lecture “Did Rape Exist in Classical Athens?” with a precise answer to that inquiry.
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Spring into shape
Looking to keep that New Year’s resolution about getting into shape? The Recreation Department is the place to keep it. Faculty, staff and students can use the swimming pools, basketball courts, squash courts and tennis facilities at Hutchinson and Gimbel Gyms free of charge. In addition, fitness center memberships, locker and towel service and personal trainers are available at reasonable rates.
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Ivy MVP enjoys his anonymity
It’s hard to think of Gavin Hoffman as somebody’s son. At 6 feet 6 inches, he’s just too tall for that. But don’t tell his parents, who have flown from their home in Minnesota to every one of his games, including a game in Hawaii. The other thing about Hoffman’s height is it makes it hard to miss him. On top of that, he’s a sports hero, the starting quarterback of Penn’s championship football team and the Ivy League’s Most Valuable Player for 2000.
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New Health System PR chief
Rebecca Harmon has been named chief public affairs officer for the University of Pennsylvania Health System effective Dec. 1. Harmon will be responsible for the overall development and direction of the Health System’s communications efforts, including media relations, community affairs programs, and the Health System’s internal publications, which include Penn Medicine, PennPulse and HUPdate.
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More Current gold
Pennsylvania Current has received a gold award in the Internal and External Publications category of the 2001 Accolades Awards program, run by District II of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). The Current was the sole gold award recipient among the 32 periodicals submitted to the competition by schools in the Middle Atlantic states and Ontario, the region covered by CASE District II. Among other things, the judges cited the paper’s appearance and its fresh treatment of familiar stories.
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Family law responds to a shifting culture
Ozzie and Harriet have gotten divorced, had surrogate babies, have become single parents and may soon fight over the true parent of their cloned infant. All these changes in their lifestyle are being taken to court, and family law has to figure out what rights each of them and their children and the grandparents have.
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Justice O’Connor speaks
The Penn Law School has played a groundbreaking role in American legal education over the course of its 150 years. That much was made clear when Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, told the story of another trailblazing woman in her remarks at the Law School’s 150th anniversary celebration Nov. 17.
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How TV colors people
As part of the Provost’s Lecture Series, Larry Gross, Sol Worth Professor of Communications in the Annenberg School, delivered a lecture Dec. 5 adapted from his essay, “Visibility and its Discontents,” which appeared in the Winter 2000 issue of Images, published by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. The essay is excerpted here:
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Something fishy in the Amazon
Ancient pyramids, cliff dwellings, tools and artwork — and the sites where they’re found — are the bread and butter of traditional archaeology. But Clark Erickson, associate professor of anthropology and a curator at the University Museum, is changing the stuff of archaeology by paying close attention to the spaces between sites, where ancient people shaped the landscape itself. Erickson’s latest research deals with massive earthwork fish traps built hundreds of years ago on the savannas of northeastern Bolivia by the indigenous Baure people.
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Sweet harmony
This two-week “World Cafe” cycle opens in pure harmony with a salute to a cappella music featuring the Persuasions. After that, the folks who play instruments while singing take over again. Thursday, Jan. 18 The Cafe explores all things a cappella with a special visit from the Persuasions Friday, Jan. 19 Bob Weir stops by to talk about the latest Ratdog project, “Evening Moods” Monday, Jan. 22 An encore presentation of Kate Rusby’s visit Tuesday, Jan. 23 TBA