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Hollywood goes on a dig
Digging up the past is a real adventure, all right. But is it the kind of adventure Indiana Jones had? Jon Solomon, professor of classical studies at the University of Arizona, has long been fascinated by how Hollywood portrays archaeology and the ancient worlds archaeologists uncover. And as an Oscar Night warm-up, he will present an illustrated lecture, “The Scales of Ramses: When Film Focuses on Ancient Objects,” at the University of Pennsylvania Museum March 26.
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Law gets dean
Following a 15-month search, University President Judith Rodin named Michael A Fitts, Robert G. Fuller Jr. Professor of Law, dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School March 6. Fitts, a member of the Penn faculty for almost 15 years, will succeed Colin S. Diver, who resigned Aug. 15, 1999. “We are absolutely delighted he has accepted this new assignment,” Rodin said in a statement about the appointment.
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Three honored by USA Today
When USA Today created their all-USA College Academic Teams, the judges cited three Penn students, named in the Feb. 17 issue, for their outstanding academics and leadership, in and beyond the classroom. Of 828 students nominated by colleges across the country, Andrew March was selected for the highest honor — named to the First All-USA College Academic Team, along with 19 other students.
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“I tell them: ‘I only have 12 minutes. I can examine you or I can answer your questions. Make up your mind.’”
Albert Kligman, professor emeritus of dermatology, on patients who come to him with hundreds of questions about medical information they got from Web sites (The New York Times, March 6)
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“I used to give our high school librarian a hard time, never knowing that I’d be spending 33 years of my adult life in the library.”
When James Curtiss Ayers was playing basketball at a junior college in the northern Mojave Desert in the mid-’60s, he was voted Most Inspirational Player. He earned that title by encouraging the other players, and “doing a lot of the grunt work that they don’t want to do, like setting picks, going for loose balls,” he said. He admires the Philadelphia 76ers’ George Lynch because “he’s a fundamental player and he does what the coach asks him to do and he makes everybody better as well.”
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“The Ingenious Dr. Franklin: Selected Scientific Letters of Benjamin Franklin”
Edited by Nathan G. Goodman 256 pages, $14.95 paper Seventy-one years ago, the University of Pennsylvania Press published a compact collection of unabridged letters from Benjamin Franklin. Having gone out of print several decades ago, this chestnut was rediscovered in the book archive at the Press. Before proceeding with a reprint, the press asked two persons familiar with science in the 18th century to review the letters.
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Other Voices gets heard
In three short years of existence, Other Voices has proved Marshall McLuhan wrong: The medium is not the message. The peer-reviewed journal’s serious content draws about 350 visits to its site a day, according to editor Aaron Levy (C’99). When a new issue first goes on-line, he said, the traffic jumps to about 1,350 visitors per day.
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Docs consider unions
Imagine Marcus Welby, M.D., walking a picket line, singing “Solidarity Forever.” Most doctors still can’t, which may be why they were outnumbered by doctors-to-be at this year’s Thomas Langfitt Jr. Memorial Symposium at the Medical School Feb. 29. Those who came got an earful of the clash of values that make physician unionization such a hot issue.
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Save a life, spoil a good walk, or find a home
The Department of Recreation is offering instructional programs in lifesaving and golf for the campus community over the next month. Courses are geared towards both beginners and the more experienced. For complete information about these courses, visit www.upenn.edu/recreation or call the Recreation Department at 215-898-6100.
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Fling bands
This year’s Spring Fling organizers decided they could please all the people all the time, or at least they’d try. That’s no mean feat, judging from the range of responses we got when we asked students — before the organizers announced their picks — who they thought should headline Spring Fling. Marilyn Manson to Boyz to Men seemed to us like a gap never to be bridged.