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A primer for tomorrow’s working women
The world of work is filled with opportunities of all kinds. And on Thursday, April 27, girls ages 9 to 15 can get a taste of some of those opportunities at Penn’s annual Take Our Daughters to Work Day. The annual event, for staff and their young guests, features workshops and demonstrations on careers, workplace issues, nutrition, health and other useful things to know about work and life.
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Famous former inmate blasts prison system
In a speech bookended by standing ovations, Angela Davis, professor of the history of consciousness at University of California, Santa Cruz, addressed the topic “Race, Gender and Justice” in front of a packed Harrison Auditorium in the University Museum April 7.
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Six to receive honorary degrees
A jazz composer and musician and the former mayor of Philadelphia are among the six notables chosen to receive honorary degrees at Penn’s 244th Commencement May 22. In addition to poet and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, this year’s Commencement speaker (Current, April 6), the honorees are:
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Rev. Calvin O. Butts to Deliver Baccalaureate Address at The University of Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA --- The Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III, pastor of The Abyssinian Baptist Church, New York, N.Y., and president of the State University of New York College at Old Westbury, will be the keynote speaker at the Baccalaureate Service at the University of Pennsylvania on Sunday, May 21, according to an announcement by University President Judith Rodin. The Baccalaureate Service will begin at 3 p.m. at Blanche P. Levy Park (College Green) on campus. It will be preceded by a brass concert at 2:15 p.m.
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Ian McHarg
At “79, going on 80,” Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning Emeritus Ian McHarg, M.L.A., M.C.P., has just completed his first book of poems, “Songs to the Stars,” to be published at the end of the month. He’d never written poetry before, but McHarg, who speaks with a Scottish brogue and knows how to tell a good story, said someone talked him into it. Another project someone talked him into is his 1967 seminal book, “Design With Nature,” in which he introduced environmental concerns to landscape architecture.
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Stephanopoulos speaks at Penn
According to George Stephanopoulos, the next election will be a lot like the last one, only closer. And the Keystone State, which is a primary-season afterthought, will be a key battleground come fall. The former White House communications director and current ABC News analyst offered his predictions on the 2000 elections during a talk at Irvine Auditorium March 28 that was long on analysis and policy and short on personal reflection.
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Black Panther no dinosaur
Bobby Seale, cofounder with Huey P. Newton of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense and one of the Chicago Eight (defendants in a conspiracy trial after the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago), is preaching to the people. In his trademark black beret and dapper mustache, he gesticulates animatedly to make a point; he curses, he recites an antigovernment poem, he jokes, he tells stories of police confrontations and vilifies conservatives. His gruff voice booms over the mike. The audience of perhaps 200 is rapt.
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Put me in, coach
Shortstop Glenn Ambrosius (C’99) tries out the new grass on the field — Murphy Field — during the home opener March 23, which also inaugurated the new baseball stadium. Ambrosius capped off a six-run eighth inning by batting in the winning run on a one-out, bases-loaded single. That run gave the Quakers a 13-12 lead when the game was called on account of darkness, thus giving Penn its first win in its new home.
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“It’s hard to achieve solidarity when the workers can just walk across the street and get another job.”
Peter Cappelli, George W. Taylor Professor of Management and director of the Center for Human Resources, on the difficulty of getting support for a strike (St. Petersburg Times, March 26)
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“I don’t have the sad story of the 50 rejection letters.”
At last, the guys have a Terry McMillan of their own. Brian Peterson (EAS’93,GEd’97) noted as he read his way through Penn that no contemporary black author was writing about relationships from an intelligent male perspective the way McMillan was for women. So, as is typical for him, he decided to fill the void himself. The result was his first novel, “Move Over, Girl,” which has just been published by Random House.