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Cinematic poet screens and reads
Let's get one thing straight, right off the bat. Ray DiPalma is not Brian DiPalma. Or to put it another way, Ray is a poet, not a filmmaker. But don't tell that to the French, who seem so impressed by the cinematic quality of Ray DiPalma's poetry that two of them made films based on one of his poems. DiPalma the poet came to Kelly Writers House April 28 to show the films and read some of his poetry. The crowd started at 10 but grew to 20 for the poetry reading.
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A suite deal for surgical patients
Just because it's called "outpatient surgery" doesn't mean that once the procedure is over, the patient's ready to go home.
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Enforce rules
President Judith Rodin has called for comments on the recommendations of the Working Group on Alcohol Abuse, which delivered its final report Monday, April 26. On receiving the report, Rodin also ended the temporary ban of all alcohol that lasted nearly five weeks. The final report suggests that would-be drinkers might lighten up if they had other ways to play during prime drinking times, and that the University needs to improve its enforcement of the alcohol-related regulations already in place.
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"Describing Early America: Bartram, Jefferson, Crèvecoeur, and the Influence of Natural History"
Pamela Regis $14.95 paper; 200 pages During the 18th century, natural historians took as their subject all of what they called Creation and approached it through a single methodology, the centerpiece of which was the Linnaean system of describing and naming plants and animals, classifying them, and locating them along the Great Chain of Being. In Linnaeus's scheme the natural order is timeless, unchanging.
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Botanical history come to life
In a sense, every botanical garden and arboretum in the United States is built on the work of John Bartram, America's first botanist. So it's certainly fitting that the Morris Arboretum mark the 300th anniversary of his birth with a glimpse inside his life and career on Wednesday, May 19.
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Slow descent into violence and death
Women in West Philadelphia are dying violent deaths. The numbers are shocking to Jeane Ann Grisso, who headed a case-controlled survey of West Philadelphia women who came into emergency rooms at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Misericordia and Presbyterian. The survey compared the answers of women with injuries to those with other health concerns. "It was an eye opener to me," Grisso said. A huge portion of the women who came in with other health concerns also reported having experienced domestic violence.
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Phat beats
Who's running the zoom zoom zoom in the boom boom at Penn? Our reporter on Locust Walk pulled hurrying students aside on a clear spring day to inquire into their preferred beats come graduation day. Students were usually short and sweet about why they liked hip-hop over, say, chamber music. Unlike the finals many of them had just come from or were headed toward, shaking it out on the dance floor doesn't require a great deal of analytical thinking or studied comprehension of vocabulary words.
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Big night from BIG-C
The Saturday night of Penn Relays weekend is for for stepping, not running. The Class of '23 Ice Skating Rink trembled beneath the stomping feet of fraternity brothers - like these seven acrobats from Penn's Alpha Phi Alpha chapter - and sorority sisters who performed elaborate routines during the annual Penn Relays step show organized by the Bicultural InterGreek Council (BIG-C). Photo by Mark Garvin
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Jewish jazz, Irish roots and more
Time to catch up with Ireland's foremost traditional band, the Chieftains, and with those masters of "Jewish jazz," the New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars, on "The World Cafe" these next two weeks. Of course, that's not all that's happening on the show: Thursday, May 13 Elliot Smith performs music from his album "XO" Friday, May 14 David Dye visits with the Chieftains and James Galway Monday, May 17 An encore presentation of Rufus Wainwright's Cafe visit
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John J. DiIulio Jr. Joins University of Pennsylvania's Faculty as Professor of Politics, Religion and Civil Society
PHILADELPHIA - John J. DiIulio, professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University, has been appointed the [Frederick] Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion and Civil Society at the University of Pennsylvania, according to Samuel H. Preston, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Penn. Dr. DiIulio, who also is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, senior counsel to Public/Private Ventures and founding director of the Center for Public Management at the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., will begin his assignment at Penn July 1, 1999.