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Share your love of nature with others
Like trees and plants? Better yet, like talking about them? The Morris Arboretum wants you. The Arboretum is looking for volunteer tour guides and is willing to train. The guides are integral to the Arboretum’s operations, explaining its history and collections to visitors. The four-session training course, held on successive Thursday evenings beginning Sept. 7 or successive Saturday mornings beginning Sept. 9, introduces guides to all they need to know about the Arboretum and its history.
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Time to start thinking about college
High-school juniors and seniors — and their parents — face a bewildering array of choices and requirements as they negotiate the path to the college of their choice. What are the must-take courses? How important are extracurricular activities, test scores, essays, recommendations and interviews? The folks who know the answers are willing to share them with you, no matter what college your children want to attend.
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Anthony Santomero
When Britain’s Monty Python comedy troupe wrote, “Everyone must hanker for the butchness of a banker/ It’s accountancy that makes the world go ’round,” they probably could not have envisioned a time when millions of dollars of assets vanish in a day just because Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan made some off-hand remark. But that time has come. And with it, the Federal Reserve System — the nation’s central bank, and an institution that most people once paid little attention to — has become a major player in the national economy.
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Government to the rescue. Not.
Two former mayors staged a bipartisan lovefest at Irvine Auditorium July 31, but a prominent critic of one of them managed to get in a few zingers. At a panel discussion on “The Future of the City,” Philadelphia’s Ed Rendell, now general chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and Indianapolis’ Stephen Goldsmith, now George W. Bush’s chief domestic policy advisor, both noted that cities have come to rely more on their own resources in staging their revivals.
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They got connections — and T-shirts
I spent a sweltering June Monday in search of techno-geeks, and discovered that the taped-glasses-and-pocket-protector stereotype is passé. Instead, by their Palm Pilots shall ye know them. Actually, I didn’t have to search too hard. More than 300 of them, from some 60-odd colleges and universities throughout North America, had descended upon Penn from June 23 to 27 for the ResNet 2000 conference.
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Philly cops did their homework
Barely two weeks after live footage of Philadelphia police officers beating a fleeing suspect made national headlines, the Philadelphia Police Department received praise for its handling of street protests during the Republican National Convention. We asked Lawrence Sherman, director of the Fels Center of Government and an advisor to Philadelphia Police Commissioner John Timoney, to comment:
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“It was just like, Oh my God, I never knew there were so many things you could do with computers and whatnot.”
To get a plum job, it helps to make the right connections. Unfortunately, most Philadelphia high school students have little or no opportunity to make them.
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Progressive farming
Progressive rock, folk rock and country rock all take a star turn on “The World Cafe” over the next two weeks. And in the midst of all this, there’s a tasty serving of Phish as well. Here’s the complete rundown: Thursday, Aug. 31 Steve Earle talks about and plays music from his latest album, “Transcendental Blues”
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Best book
Barbie Zelizer, Ph.D., Raymond Williams Term Chair and associate professor of communication, received the Best Book Award for “Remembering to Forget: Holocaust Memory Through the Camera’s Eye” (Chicago) from the International Communication Association in May. Foreign study fellowships Clarissa Su
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Style guide
After spending last year plumbing the depths of human nature, the Penn Humanities Forum has decided to spend this year doing something a little more, ahem, stylish. The Forum has put together a series of exhibits, talks and performances, all with a common theme — style. What is style, anyway? It’s not just decoration, or musical taste, or fashion or cuisine, though all of those are elements of it. At its heart, style is the expression of the human urge to express individuality, and many of the events in this year’s forum feature people doing just that by various means.