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Celebrate the return of the campus center
This year’s sophomore class never saw the inside of the place. The Class of 1897, the first to see it ever, would find it at once familiar and strange if they were around today. And those who remember what it looked like before it closed for a four-year reconstruction are in for a very pleasant surprise. Houston Hall, the nation’s first student union and the centerpiece of the Perelman Quadrangle, is once again open for business, and starting today, the University will celebrate with a week-long grand opening.
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“Dictionary of the Ancient Near East
Edited by Piotr Bienkowski and Alan Millard 352 pages, 350 black and white illustrations, $45 cloth
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From school to lab in two years
The Wistar Institute had a nagging headache: It had a hard time keeping research technicians. So it turned to the Community College of Philadelphia for a cure. And now six CCP students are on their way to careers in biomedical research. All this was made possible by the creation of the Biomedical Technician Training Program, a two-year program that prepares CCP science students for careers as research technicians.
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Business 12, academe 3
As freshmen trickled into “How To Start Your Own Business,” we mused that perhaps punctuality should have been the first lesson. But the dozen or so students who showed up Sept. 5 for the overflow section of orientation’s most-requested session settled in right away. “Who do you think wrote the laws of American capitalism?” local entrepreneur Lawrence Gelburd (WG’91) exclaimed. “Poor people? Noooo. People with money? People who run corporations? Yeeaah! C’mon, Jack! Let’s make a deal! That’s what bankruptcy law is all about.”
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Brown-bag seminars for new homeowners
The Office of Community Housing continues to offer seminars to help members of the Penn community with home ownership and purchase information. The following brown-bag seminars are being offered this semester.
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A Phrygian feast fit for King Midas
Once upon a time, in ancient Phrygia, in the capital city of Gordion, there lived a king named Midas who turned everything he touched into gold. Well, King Midas, being real and human, may have been the Donald Trump of 700 B.C., but the magical golden touch of the legend was less than likely to be his. His grave, which was excavated by University of Pennsylvania Museum archaeologists 40 years ago in modern-day central Turkey, had not a whit of gold in it.
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Faith & Courage and more
She’s no man’s woman, but she’s a powerful performer, and on Sept. 22, Sinéad O’Connor will be David Dye’s guest for a “World Cafe” interview from New York. Other highlights these next two weeks include: Thursday, Sept. 14 Michigan native P.J. Olsson talks about and plays work from his new album, “Words for Living”
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Built and building
The construction zone that swallowed the heart of campus is gone, and the oldest student union in the nation is now the newest student union in the nation. Houston Hall is open for business. It is part of the new center for student life on campus, Perelman Quadrangle, which provides places to eat, study, perform, play and meet. The complex also includes the new Penn Commons plaza and renovations in Logan Hall, Williams Hall and Irvine Auditorium. Nearing completion are two other construction projects that will affect the quality of student life.
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C. K. Williams
It was a homecoming of sorts. Here was C.K. Williams (C’58), the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, sipping coffee in a Starbucks on South Street, a street he remembers well from his 25 years of residence in Philadelphia. But today’s South Street is a far cry from the funky, artsy strip he remembers. “The word ‘tawdry’ came to mind as I was walking up, which is sad,” he said. It wasn’t the same Center City, either — all those tall skyscrapers, he said, “sort of tore the heart out of Center City.”
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New students get a map for campus life
This was not your father’s New Student Orientation (NSO). And the new students gobbled it up. Crazy and not-so-crazy classes gave them a taste of academic life. Music, dance, poetry and museum exhibits linked students to the campus’ rich cultural life. Tours of the neighborhood and Center City oriented the Class of 2004 to the world around them. These activities were part of seven action-packed orientation days, beginning Aug. 31.