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A plan for moral space
When city planners talk about community, it’s usually in terms of physical spaces. So it comes as a surprise that in his latest book, “Open Moral Communities” (MIT Press, 2000), Professor of City and Regional Planning Seymour Mandelbaum has almost nothing to say about the physical realm. In a brief talk at the Penn Bookstore May 5, Mandelbaum explained that his book examines the types of moral communities humans form and how they work to bind people together.
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Time to decide your financial future
Attention all A-3s: You now have a chance to take charge of your retirement savings — if you act right away. In response to requests from weekly-paid staff, the University will allow participants in Penn’s Retirement Allowance Plan (RAP) to join the Tax-Deferred Retirement Plan (TDR) effective July 1, according to John J. Heuer, vice president for human resources. But to make the switch, employees must notify the Benefits Office no later than June 1. Each plan has advantages and disadvantages. So which one is right for you?
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“More students here have heard of Matthew Shepard... than are aware of the harassment and violence just four blocks away.”
Kurt Conklin is a big believer in prevention. When a rainbow flag outside his Powelton Village home made him the target of anti-gay harassment, he and his neighbors — who showed their support for him by flying rainbow flags from their homes — redoubled their efforts to promote town-gown dialogue with Drexel University students as a means of forestalling future trouble.
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Jeremy Kraus
By the time Jeremy Kraus graduated from the Wharton School in 1998, he was already founder and president of his own company, Jeremy’s MicroBatch Ice Creams. Since then he’s been building a Gen-Y empire, based on the world-view that change can be really, really good, especially if it makes ice cream taste like a cinnamon bun or a bottle of stout. At 24, Kraus, who was raised in Dallas, is the youngest person to have taken a non-dot-com company public.
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NAS and AAAS elect Penn faculty
One new Penn member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) studies how people learn to like — or dislike — foods. And Penn’s new National Academy of Sciences (NAS) member studies how the mind acquires language. They are two of five faculty members honored by election to the two academies.
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The hunt for Orange Julius Caesar
As a child, I wanted to be Indiana Jones. I envied his search for the unknown, battling unforeseeable odds to gain a bit of knowledge for mankind. Yet childhood and two sequels inevitably passed and I moved on to new heroes. Like the apostle Paul, I put away my childish things. Not so fast… Why, just last week I was standing in front of the forum in ancient Corinth. Well, I was virtually standing there, thanks to the Corinth Computer Project.
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How we’ll spend our summer “vacations”
Summer’s here, which means it’s time to take it easy. Yeah, right. Most of the students we collared on the Walk and in the dining halls had working vacations already lined up for this summer, and a few who didn’t were so embarrassed that they didn’t want us to use their answers. We did manage, though, to find a few people who plan to get some recreation and relaxation this summer.
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Czech bounces between two worlds
If you knew Tereza Slepickova (C’00) only by her curriculum vitae, you might imagine her as a scowling, prematurely middle-aged woman who never encountered an abstruse political theory she didn’t like. You’d be wrong. But the mistake would be understandable. A native of the Czech Republic, Slepickova graduates from Penn this spring with a double major in international relations (honors) and German studies plus minors in economics and political science — and with a G.P.A. of 3.9 out of 4.0.
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“Building America’s First University: An Historical and Architectural Guide to the University of Pennsylvania”
George E. Thomas and David B. Brownlee 400 pages, 374 black-and-white and 16 color illustrations, 5 maps, $45.00 cloth “Building America’s First University” tells a story that begins with Benjamin Franklin’s notion that learning ought not to be restricted to a leading religion or class. His college’s original emphasis on modern languages, the natural sciences, contemporary literature and professional education, radical in its time, went on to become the model of American higher education.
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Two Guggenheims, 11 Fulbrights
Among 182 scholars and artists designated to receive this year’s John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships are Penn faculty members Hai-Lung Dai, Ph.D., Professor and Chairman of Chemistry, who will study chemical reaction control, and Robert Blair St. George, Ph.D., Professor of Folklore and Folklife, who will study the spoken language and oral poetics in early New England.