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“It’s hard to achieve solidarity when the workers can just walk across the street and get another job.”
Peter Cappelli, George W. Taylor Professor of Management and director of the Center for Human Resources, on the difficulty of getting support for a strike (St. Petersburg Times, March 26)
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“I don’t have the sad story of the 50 rejection letters.”
At last, the guys have a Terry McMillan of their own. Brian Peterson (EAS’93,GEd’97) noted as he read his way through Penn that no contemporary black author was writing about relationships from an intelligent male perspective the way McMillan was for women. So, as is typical for him, he decided to fill the void himself. The result was his first novel, “Move Over, Girl,” which has just been published by Random House.
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University of Pennsylvania to Award Honorary Degrees to Seamus Heaney, Five Others, at May 22 Commencement
PHILADELPHIA --- The University of Pennsylvania will confer honorary degrees on six men and women at the 244th Commencement on Monday, May 22, according to University President Judith Rodin.Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature for "...works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past," will deliver the Commencement address and receive the Doctor of Humane Letters degree, honoris causa.Five other honorary degrees will be awarded at the ceremony:
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Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney to Deliver the Commencement Address at The University of Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA --- Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature for "...works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past," will deliver the commencement address at the 244th Commencement of the University of Pennsylvania on Monday, May 22, according to University President Judith Rodin. The ceremony will begin at 9:30 a.m.A native of County Derry, Northern Ireland, Mr. Heaney is the Ralph Waldo Emerson Poet in Residence at Harvard University, and former professor of poetry at Oxford University.
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Michael A. Fitts Named Dean of The University of Pennsylvania Law School
PHILADELPHIA --- Michael A. Fitts, Robert G. Fuller, Jr. Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a member of the Penn faculty for almost 15 years, has been named dean of the school, according to an announcement today (March 6) by University President Judith Rodin. The appointment will become effective upon confirmation by the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on March 23, 2000.
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Fling bands
This year’s Spring Fling organizers decided they could please all the people all the time, or at least they’d try. That’s no mean feat, judging from the range of responses we got when we asked students — before the organizers announced their picks — who they thought should headline Spring Fling. Marilyn Manson to Boyz to Men seemed to us like a gap never to be bridged.
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Two men save a women’s group
This is a story about a discussion group founded by women for women, and how two guys ended up running it. But it’s not a story about how the patriarchy co-opted women’s issues. That’s because the two guys in question took the reins to keep the group alive. The men are Tariq Remtulla (C’00) and Gaurab Bansal (C’00), and the group they saved is called Sangam, which now bills itself as the only South Asian progressive activist organization on campus. And they ended up running the group purely by chance.
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Beverly Emanuel
Though geneticist Beverly Emanuel, Ph.D., of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has spent almost her entire life and career in Philadelphia — going to Philadelphia public schools and then to Penn — the year she spent as a researcher at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., in the early ’60s was an important one. It was there that she realized that she didn’t want to be doing someone else’s research. “I had a lot of questions myself I wanted to ask and answer,” said the professor of pediatrics at Penn.
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Race versus class
Richard Kahlenberg has a plan to mend, not end, affirmative action. Not everyone at the Feb. 25 forum “Rethinking the Remedy: The Future of Affirmative Action in Higher Education and the Workplace” agreed with him that it needs mending, but his respondents and the audience of students, faculty and administrators gave him a respectful hearing.
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Be specific in choosing sculpture sites
Penn’s campus has a variety of artworks — some created specifically for a location through a public art program, such as Claes Oldenburg’s “Split Button” in front of the library or Alexander Liberman’s “Covenant” over Locust Walk, and others donated or purchased that must be sited. The value of this collection does not lie in how or why the work was created or acquired. It’s more about the way art works once it is in place.