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Everyone is welcome at Irv’s Place

You don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy Irv’s Place. In fact, Dining Services is betting that its new kosher restaurant will appeal to the area’s growing Muslim community and to vegetarians.

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Riepe named Trustee chairman

James S. Riepe (W’65,WG’67) has been named chairman of the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania effective June 18. He replaces P. Roy Vagelos (C’50) as chairman.

Get ready for Warhol Week

No, the groundbreaking pop artist isn’t coming back from the dead to perform on “The World Cafe.” Instead, the Cafe will spend a week at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, featuring live performances from some of today’s groundbreaking contemporary musicians. Until the “Week at the Warhol” begins Monday, Sept. 13, there’s plenty of other choice items on the Cafe menu:

Conn is deputy provost; Wharton, Law get interim deans

Peter J. Conn

Lifetime achievement award to Luborsky

Lester Luborsky, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Psychology in Psychiatry, received the American Psychological Foundation’s Gold Medal Award for lifetime achievement in August. This award is the third Luborsky has received this year; he also won the Mary Sigourney Award for Psychoanalysis from the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Paul H.

So you want your kid to get into college?

If your lifelong dream has been to get your children into Penn — or Swarthmore, or Villanova, or Penn State, or the College of New Jersey or any college — the Undergraduate Admissions Office would like to help you out.

Go play — and learn — in the garden

The gardens and arboretums of the Philadelphia-Wilmington region are more than landscapes of beauty. They’re fun and educational, too. And a new guide for families is designed to help parents and children learn about nature while exploring the region’s gardens.

Students learn the “habits of successÓ

While critics and proponents of affirmative action have been arguing its merits, a program that began two decades ago at the Wharton School has been quietly demonstrating how affirmative action ought to work. And in the process, it’s created an “old boys’ network” as effective as the ones minorities have spent years trying to break into.

Mall retailers need not apply

The Sundance movie theater under construction on 40th Street presents a huge opportunity to create a destination point for students, neighbors, young professionals, street musicians, chess players, sightseers and movie buffs, all congregating in an area that could potentially become dominated by cafes, international restaurants, antique book and furniture stores, and an electric retail mix.