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Back to Sundance
“World Cafe” host David Dye returns to Park City, Utah, for a second week of live events from the Sundance Music and Film Festival beginning March 6. Other notable s dropping by these next few weeks include Shelby Lynne, Yo-Yo Ma, James Galway and the Chieftains. Thursday, March 2 Singer/ songwriter John Flynn visits the studio
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“Counterfeiting in Colonial America”
Kenneth Scott Foreword by David R. Johnson 320 pages, 10 illustrations, $19.95 paper Counterfeiting flourished in the colonies. As David R. Johnson explains in his new foreword to Kenneth Scott’s classic book, “The combination of a generally inefficient law enforcement system, the gradual proliferation of colonial issues to copy, and the reliance on private citizens to prosecute criminals made it difficult to capture, prosecute, or punish counterfeiters.
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WXPN picks the hits
Bruce Warren has heard the future of rock ’n’ roll on the South Dakota prairie. And because he has, listeners to Penn’s public radio station, WXPN (88.5 FM), will hear it too. And if they behave as they usually do when Warren hears something interesting, before too long people across America will all be talking about Indigenous, a hard-driving band of Native American blues-rockers Warren referred to as “the next Allman Brothers.”
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E-books shape research
A unique new collection of digital books on the University’s library Web page may reshape the way that knowledge is acquired and retrieved. The new collection, which debuted in January, is a joint project of the library and Oxford University Press, USA. It is a collection of texts on history and related areas of the humanities published by Oxford, numbering about 300 to 400 new texts a year over the next five years, to reach a total of up to 2,000 digitized tests.
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What a difference three days make
If it’s Thursday, this must be (a) the Penn Reading Project, (b) a meeting with my advisor, (c) a field trip to the Reading Terminal Market, (d) time for a little bonding with my fellow freshmen. A schedule change approved for New Student Orientation 2000 by the Council of Undergraduate Deans Feb. 17 means that whatever else happens on Thursday of orientation week, it won’t be (e) all of the above. The Class of 2004 will have seven days — Aug. 31 through Sept. 6 — to become adjusted to campus life, a full three days more than their predecessors had.
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“The Olympic myth, the very origins on which the ancient Games were based, is a tale of cheating and bribery.”
David Romano, keeper of the University of Pennsylvania Museum’s Mediterranean section, on the history of Olympic scandal (Salt Lake Tribune, Feb. 13)
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Around the world on the silver screen
Films about body art, Gypsies, technology and tradition, community spirit and identity and gender — once again, the Margaret Mead Traveling Film and Video Festival brings fascinating stories of people’s lives and experiences to the University of Pennsylvania Museum.
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External overseers named
A committee of distinguished research scientists from across the country was appointed by President Judith Rodin to review the oversight and monitoring of clinical trials at the Institute for Human Gene Therapy (IHGT) at the Medical Center.
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Awkward gracefully strolls down memory lane
Blame it on Mom. On second thought, give Mom the credit. It may be reductionist to put it this way, but if it were not for his mother, Michael Awkward (Gr’86, Hon’97) might not have become a feminist literary scholar.
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Grownups should know better
The recent wave of shootings at high schools across the nation, it appears, has claimed more innocent victims: freedom of thought, the right to privacy — and an 11th-grader at Friends Central School. The 11th-grader was expelled after Friends Central administrators received a transcript of a private e-mail exchange with a friend in which he argued that we should “kill off the stupid and crazy people.”