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Science is no religion
This is a wonderful time to be an evolutionary biologist. Thanks to advances in a variety of different fields, from paleontology to genetics, we can now understand better than ever the deep family relationships between all the living organisms on our planet. We can not only put together a detailed family tree of life, but we can also begin to understand some of the most important questions in biology.
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Time crunch hits home
Jerry Jacobs takes his work very personally. “Ever since I’ve been studying how busy we all are, I’ve been busier than ever,” the professor of sociology said. “This research has been much more personally significant to me than anything else that I’ve ever done.”
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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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“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.