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TV news grabs student intern
“I’m sitting here as proof that sometimes things just happen,” said Tracy Leeds (C’00). “I had no idea in May that I’d be sitting here talking to you as a full-time employee.” A desk assistant at ABC headquarters in Washington, D.C., Leeds works behind the scenes for news shows like “World News Tonight” and “Nightline.” Leeds, who is an American history major, began at ABC as a summer intern under the aegis of the University’s Washington Semester Program, working with media moguls Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts on “This Week.”
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Ford Motor Company Donates $2 Million to the University of Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA --- Ford Motor Company has donated $2 million to the University of Pennsylvania. The grant will provide support for a wide range of student and faculty programs at both The Wharton School and the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
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Nielsen lauds Darrow at Law School
He may not be Clarence Darrow, but, despite what he’ll have you believe, Leslie Nielsen is no Frank Drebin either. That became apparent during a recent question-and-answer session held with the actor at the Penn Law School. The Oct. 25 event was a day after Nielsen’s Irvine Auditorium performance of “Clarence Darrow,” a one-man show. The session, entitled “The Law as Theater,” was moderated by Theatre Arts Lecturer Rose Malague and Law Professor Peter Huang.
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Is it the end of the world as we know it?
I’m a skeptic on this whole “millennium end-of-the-world” thing. But if there’s one thing I’m sure of, it’s that the new millennium begins on January 1, 2001 — not 2000. So I took my skepticism with me to a symposium at Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Oct. 22 held in conjunction with “American Apocalypse: Images of the End from the Millennium Watch Archive,” an exhibit there of a collection of literature that reflects belief in a global change at the end of the century.
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Public education is every citizen’s responsibility
I liken the failure of our public school system to The Great Philadelphia Smoke Detector Giveaway. The Philadelphia Fire Department (PFD) went door-to-door, giving residents of certain neighborhoods a free smoke detector. The firemen even installed them, on the theory that 400 free smoke detectors proved more cost-effective than fighting a single fire.
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So, how’s the chow?
Over the summer, Penn hired Bon Appétit to manage its dining-hall kitchens. The company has a reputation for quality and creativity in food service, and Café Bon Appétit in International House leads us to believe that they deserve it. But do the people who eat their fare every day agree? Many did — but what some considered pluses, others considered minuses.
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Alcohol policy is a drop in the bucket
Mark Metzl (C’00) did not want to be photographed with a bottle of alcohol. Metzl acknowledges, “The alcohol issues probably define my term as [IFC] president, but I’d like to think my personality goes beyond that.”
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"Witchcraft and Magic in Europe"
Ancient Greece and Rome $24.95 Paper, 408 pages The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries $24.95 Paper, 376 pages The Twentieth Century $24.95 Paper, 256 pages Edited by Bengt Ankarloo and Stuart Clark For two millennia, European folklore and ritual have been imbued with the belief in the supernatural. Take the story of an elderly woman who, when stopped by customs officials outside of Naples in 1921, was found to be carrying the head of a goat with 42 nails driven into it and was not allowed to leave until the head was destroyed by a priest.
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Subjects matter at GSE
Did your ninth-grade biology teacher major in biology in college? Did your sixth-grade math teacher even have a minor in mathematics? Chances are, they did not. But increasingly, schools are looking for teachers who at least have a bachelor’s degree in the subjects they teach — particularly in the areas of math, science and foreign languages. That is why the Graduate School of Education is expanding its level of cooperation with other departments, allowing students, for example, to earn two degrees, one in their subject area and one in education.
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$11 million donated
The largest gift ever made to the University for undergraduate student financial aid was donated recently by Jay H. Baker (W’56), the president of Kohl’s Corporation, the Wisconsin-based specialty department store chain, and his wife, Patty. Three million dollars of the $11 million gift, announced Oct. 7 by President Judith Rodin, will endow the Baker Leadership Scholars Program, providing financial support to undergraduates throughout the University.