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“We’re not the resource for ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’”
We were intrigued by a factoid that crossed our desk a few months back: the State Data Center, the clearinghouse for statistical information about Pennsylvania, had cited the University of Pennsylvania Library’s reference desk as the most-frequently-consulted resource in the state for data on the state. We thought that was a big deal. Actually, it’s really trivial. It’s only a small part of the reference desk’s mission.
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Two Guggenheims, 11 Fulbrights
Among 182 scholars and artists designated to receive this year’s John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships are Penn faculty members Hai-Lung Dai, Ph.D., Professor and Chairman of Chemistry, who will study chemical reaction control, and Robert Blair St. George, Ph.D., Professor of Folklore and Folklife, who will study the spoken language and oral poetics in early New England.
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Up against the wall
Jane Golden started out as a graffiti-buster, turning Philadelphia “writers” into legitimate muralists and Philadelphia into the mural capital of America through the city’s Mural Arts Program. Native Philadelphian Stephen Powers managed to avoid her influence, and now “improves” metal security grates across New York with his bold tag “ESPO” (Exterior Surface Painting Outreach).
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Five first steps
The University committee charged with reviewing Penn’s research on human subjects has identified five things Penn can do right now to improve its methods, including requiring researchers to disclose conflicts of interest and hiring outside monitors for research projects whose funding does not provide for them.
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A challenge to old sex rules on campus
For the better part of a decade, a group of subversives within the University has been spreading its radical agenda to an unsuspecting audience. Along the way, it did raise a few minor ruckuses, but by and large it has been quietly successful, converting others here and at other campuses to the cause. The radical notion these subversives have been promoting is that sex should be a matter of mutual consent and respect. And on April 24, they and their supporters met in the Fox Student Art Gallery to celebrate the publication of their latest manifesto.
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Do these numbers add up?
Critics of affirmative action now tout plans that guarantee college admission to a percentage of a state’s high school graduates. Last month, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights issued a report urging caution in using such plans. We spoke with Commission Chairperson Mary Frances Berry about why the commission decided to enter the fray. Here’s what she said:
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Tension breakers
It’s crunch time, and all over campus, students are feeling the pressure of final exams. Well, not all of them — a few of the people we asked during finals week last fall seemed unusually stress-free. As for everyone else, the coping strategies run the gamut from healthy (working out) to heavy (eating lots of cookie dough). But as another of our students noted, who said you have to stay sane during finals? Melanie Signorile, College ’02 “I eat a lot of cookie dough. I haven’t been doing a very good job at staying sane.”
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Liberal arts entrepreneur goes dot-com crazy
He’s not an MBA student. He’s not even an undergraduate Whartonite. In fact, he describes himself as a “non-Whartonite” — a “staunch supporter of the liberal arts.” Yet he founded an Internet marketing strategy company anyway.
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“The Plants of Pennsylvania: An Illustrated Manual”
Ann Fowler Rhoads and Timothy A. Block, illustrations by Anna Anisko 1,040 pages, 2,645 line drawings, 4 maps, $65.00 Spring is here and so is “The Plants of Pennsylvania,” a major new reference book compiled, written and illustrated by key staff members of the University’s own Morris Arboretum, the official arboretum of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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How women got the vote — elsewhere
Women’s suffrage, like socialism, should be considered a political subject in its own right, according to feminist Ellen DuBois. Discussing female suffragist efforts between the First and Second World Wars, DuBois told a women’s studies seminar at Penn in April that historians often view the fight for women’s voting rights — a fight that has been won country-by-country — through the lens of British and American politics. But that lens blinds them to a rich feminist heritage in countries such as France, India, Japan, Sri Lanka, Iran and even Afghanistan, she said.