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Two men save a women’s group
This is a story about a discussion group founded by women for women, and how two guys ended up running it. But it’s not a story about how the patriarchy co-opted women’s issues. That’s because the two guys in question took the reins to keep the group alive. The men are Tariq Remtulla (C’00) and Gaurab Bansal (C’00), and the group they saved is called Sangam, which now bills itself as the only South Asian progressive activist organization on campus. And they ended up running the group purely by chance.
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Beverly Emanuel
Though geneticist Beverly Emanuel, Ph.D., of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has spent almost her entire life and career in Philadelphia — going to Philadelphia public schools and then to Penn — the year she spent as a researcher at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., in the early ’60s was an important one. It was there that she realized that she didn’t want to be doing someone else’s research. “I had a lot of questions myself I wanted to ask and answer,” said the professor of pediatrics at Penn.
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Race versus class
Richard Kahlenberg has a plan to mend, not end, affirmative action. Not everyone at the Feb. 25 forum “Rethinking the Remedy: The Future of Affirmative Action in Higher Education and the Workplace” agreed with him that it needs mending, but his respondents and the audience of students, faculty and administrators gave him a respectful hearing.
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Be specific in choosing sculpture sites
Penn’s campus has a variety of artworks — some created specifically for a location through a public art program, such as Claes Oldenburg’s “Split Button” in front of the library or Alexander Liberman’s “Covenant” over Locust Walk, and others donated or purchased that must be sited. The value of this collection does not lie in how or why the work was created or acquired. It’s more about the way art works once it is in place.
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Abortion hit list and free speech
Attorney Kathryn Kolbert, known for her defense of abortion rights, appeared on “60 Minutes” defending the First Amendment rights of a notorious anti-abortion group. So we asked her to explain her thinking in a telephone conversation. Several years back, an anti-abortion group, the American Coalition of Life Advocates, created posters identifying what it called “the dirty dozen,” 12 physicians who provide abortion services. Each poster had the picture of a doctor with the words, “Wanted, $500 reward for crimes against humanity.”
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Collaboration links real life to research on what works
To not a lot of fanfare, 90 people from around the world converged on the Inn at Penn last month for a groundbreaking meeting. Their mission: Create a systematic way for high-quality research and knowledge to reach government agencies, policymakers, social welfare organizations, even doctors, thereby improving policy decisions that affect peoples’ lives. The group is called the Campbell Collaboration and its director is Robert Boruch, Trustee Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education and professor of statistics at Wharton.
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Fine folks featured
“The World Cafe” takes on a folksy flavor these next two weeks, as singer/songwriters Aimee Mann, Andy White and Evan Olson, among others, stop by to chat and perform. Thursday, March 23 The Kennedys perform music from their lastest effort, “Evolver” Friday, March 24 Aimee Mann and Michael Penn stop by the Cafe
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“Sometimes it does get frustrating because you feel that people don’t have a lot of common sense.”
__________________ HELEN CAFFREY Position: Clinical receptionist, VHUP emergency room Length of service: 18 years Other stuff: Has three grown children, four cats and an Amazon gray parrot. __________________ Photo by Tommy Leonardi
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Ed Rendell
Now that he’s no longer photo-opping and glad-handing nonstop as mayor of Philadelphia, Ed Rendell (C’65), the latest addition to Penn’s faculty, ought to be able to show up for class on time. Fat chance. It was 10 minutes into the second meeting of his urban studies class, Can Cities Survive?, and there was no sign of his whereabouts. So his teaching assistant vamped a bit to kill time.
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Another inauguration for President Clinton
Starting off a new Penn School of Arts and Sciences forum with a bang, President Bill Clinton addressed invited guests at Irvine Auditorium Feb. 24. Outside, a few demonstrators protested U.S. policies toward Iraq and China. However, the audience at the Granoff Forum, which will explore topics of international development and the global economy, greeted the president warmly. University President Judith Rodin, Philadelphia Mayor John Street and Penn alumnus Michael Granoff (C’80), for whom the forum is named, shared the stage with Clinton.