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Advocates point moral compass
With the student protesters gone from President Rodin’s office, the leading advocate for the human rights of sweatshop employees, Charles Kernaghan, is no persona non grata.
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Hate-crime laws, pro and con
Hate crime laws were the topic of discussion at a Law School forum held March 30 as part of Penn’s annual Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Awareness Days. We asked Professor of Communications Larry Gross for his views on the subject. Hate crimes laws rest on the notion that there are criminal acts whose victims are entire communities or groups of people, not just the specific individual who is the target of a particular act, and that these acts are aimed at terrorizing or intimidating into silence entire groups of people.
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Power to the people
Instead of a chicken in every pot, Raymond Gorte envisions a fuel cell in every home. Gorte, Carl V.S. Patterson Professor and chair of Chemical Engineering, is part of a team that has developed a power source that uses natural gas (methane) to produce electricity in a way that has the potential to be cleaner and cheaper than existing methods. Other team members are John Vohs, associate dean for undergraduate education in the School of Engineering and Applied Science and professor of chemical engineering, and postdoctoral associate Seungdoo Park.
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What’s past is present
Talk about irony. The featured artist on today’s “World Cafe” is Ian Anderson, the front man for Jethro Tull, which had a mid-’70s hit album called “Living in the Past.” Then, on April 18, along comes Eric Anderson (no relation), whose latest album asserts “You Can’t Relive the Past.” Who’s right? Who cares? They’re both worth a listen. Thursday, April 6 Jethro Tull front man Ian Anderson performs music from his solo album “The Secret Language of Birds”
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New deputy dean for SEAS
Vijay Kumar, Ph.D., professor of mechanical engineering and director of the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory, has been named Deputy Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. As the first holder of the title, Kumar will oversee SEAS’ research agenda, including the advancement of research throughout the school and the pursuit of funding opportunities from both the nonprofit and corporate sectors.
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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)