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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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“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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“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.