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Donald Trump plays hardball
“Boy, do I love Wharton,” said would-be presidential candidate Donald Trump (W’68). He was greeted by a roar from the 1,200-person Wharton-friendly crowd in Irvine Auditorium, where we went to hear “The Donald” at a Nov.18 taping of the MSNBC show “Hardball with Chris Matthews. “ Matthews asked the money question right off. “Are you running for president?” Trump answered, “I am indeed [long pause]...perhaps.”
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Three faces of hate
Hate was November’s hot topic in discussions on campus. Here are excerpts from three of them: Class hatred in Japan You probably look at me and wonder what makes me special as a Burakumin [a despised class in Japan]. The truth is the average person in Japan would not be able to look at me and see anything different either. … I would like to give four concrete examples of different systems and lifestyles of the Burakumin.
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“I don’t think that there is a continent that we haven’t supplied some sort of contribution to.”
Stashed in closets, utility rooms and other nooks and crannies around campus are equipment and supplies waiting for a new life. Diane McAndrews put them there, and when the time comes, she’ll take them out. McAndrews, the building administrator for the Anatomy-Chemistry, John Morgan, Richards and Stellar-Chance buildings at the Medical School, is one of the prime movers behind REMEDY at Penn, the local chapter of an organization established at Yale to recycle surplus medical supplies and equipment.
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Doris Duke Award to Gewirtz
Alan M. Gewirtz, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Pathology, has won a $3 million Doris Duke Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award for Excellence in Bench to Bedside Research, one of four winners this year. He won for his project, “Nucleic Acid Therapeutics for Human Leukemia,” an example of his work in translating a basic scientific discovery into clinically useful therapies for patients with blood formation disorders.
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Looks like America
Bucks County photographer David Graham has spent 20 years capturing the face of America, and it’s now on display at the Institute of Contemporary Art. And yes, it looks like Elizabeth Taylor (as impersonated by Angel Milou of Haverford in thephoto), and Ben Franklin, and a host of other famous and not-so-famous folk. Graham’s photos capture with wit and warmth those quirky individuals that make this country special. Graham’s “All-American Boy” exhibit is paired with another witty exhibit, “Breathless,” featuring the weather-balloon sculptures of Nancy Davidson.
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New dean
After serving as interim dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science since Aug. 1, 1998, Eduardo Glandt, Ph.D., hit the ground running upon his Nov. 8 appointment as dean. Just days later, he listed a seven-point agenda ofthings he wanted to accomplish immediately. One of his new missions was to take advantage of “the strategic location we have in Philadelphia. It’s a great place for an engineering school,” he said.
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Undergraduates publish on the Web
Richard Kiok knows a good thing when he sees it. When he got a mass e-mail from one of the founders of the Journal of Young Investigators, he immediately wrote back to find out how he could assist in the production of the fledgling Web site. “I love undergraduate science and I also love the use of the Web to disseminate information,” Kiok said. “I thought JYI was a good way to combine both.”
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M-word break
The winter break of the so-called millennium is fast approaching (aaargh, we mentioned it), and some of you have noticed and made some pretty wild plans. But only a few of you seem really worried about just another calendar date. Far more scary and far less airy is the prospect of final exams. Pass or die. And then go home and recover. Adam McCabe, Engineering ’99 “I’m Snoop Doggy Dogg trying to get a jobby job, and for New Year’s I’m taking a cruise.”
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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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“Daphne du Maurier, Haunted Heiress”
Nina Auerbach 192 pages; $24.95 cloth “My experience with Daphne du Maurier has always been the same. I devour her, leave her, and vaguely decide that she satisfied some immature neurotic need in me that I no longer have. Then some years later I read her again and I fall into her world. . . . She’s a complex, powerful, unique writer, so unorthodox that no critical tradition, from formalism to feminism, can digest her.”