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National Survey Shows Parents Deeply Fearful About the Internet's Influence on Their Children
PHILADELPHIA - A national survey of parents in computer households indicates parents are deeply fearful about the Internet's influence on their children. The survey project - led by Dr. Joseph Turow of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania - shows 78% are "strongly" or "somewhat" concerned that their children might give away personal information on the Internet. An equal percentage fear children might view sexually explicit material.
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Awards for teaching
The School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Medicine have announced the winners of their top teaching awards for 1998-99. Robert Rescorla, Ph.D., professor of psychology and former acting dean of the College, received the Ira Abrams Memorial Award for teaching from the School of Arts and Sciences. Rescorla's work focuses on elementary learning processes. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. The following faculty received the School of Medicine's 1998-99 teaching awards:
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Pasta power
The spaghetti came out of the kitchen and into work for a bridge-building workshop for Take Our Daughters to Work Day, April 22. More than 50 people - employees and their daughters - came to learn how rubber bands and pasta perform under stress, simple examples to explain the role materials play in cooking up structures. The workshop was sponsored by the Society of Women Engineers. Photo by Candace diCarlo
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Brutal police shoot selves in foot
The death of Amadou Diallo, shot 41 times, unarmed, by New York City Police, and the resulting community protest, prompted me to write this. Police officers have one of the most important of all jobs in our society, but it is a job fraught with frustration. And it is that frustration that can lead to lapses in respect for law and order by officers. Trained for battle The frustration is partially a product of the way police officers are trained.
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Japan discovers adolescence
Adolescence in Japan is still in its adolescence, but it's already produced a full-blown teen culture, complete with new ways for youth to explore their budding sexuality. At least that's what Boston University anthropologist Merry White has found in the course of her observations of modern Japanese youth. And in a lecture at Penn on "Sex, Identity and the Marketing of the Japanese Teen" on April 16, she described how teen culture has evolved in Japan and how the media have helped shape it.
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Home improvement gives joy to the world
Every year, it's the same routine: checking the list to see who gets what. Going from place to place to make sure everything is in stock. Getting people to help with assembling the gifts. And finally, preparing for the Big Day, when the presents are handed off to the delighted recipients. Chad Oakley (WG'00) has been through this for four years. And every year, he and scores of his fellow Penn students feel the same excitement as Christmas approaches.
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Get a grip
Matt Olster (EAS'99, left) and Peter Carpi (EAS'99) operate a robotic arm developed for wheelchair users with a microcontroller they developed as their electrical engineering senior design project. It was one of 26 projects on display at the annual Senior Design Competition April 16.
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Summer sessions go extracurricular
On a mild day in early June, a group of your friends is laughing and enjoying a picnic on College Green. Now and then a Frisbee gets tossed about in a carefree way. You can't tell exactly what they are smiling about or just who's there because you're headed the other direction - to class. It could be "Deviance and Social Control," or maybe it's your English proseminar, "Invalid Women," that you're trying to make on time.
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"The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook of Sacred Texts"
Edited by Marvin W. Meyer $19.95 paper; 288 pages Biblical scholars and philologists have long been aware of the "ancient mysteries" - the secretly practiced religions of the Mediterranean world - but until now, there has not been a balanced sourcebook of original texts for the study of these religions. This book fills a gap not only in the history of late antiquity and early Christianity, but also in the field of history of religions in general.
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It keeps getting bigger and bigger...
...and that's great news for Philly film fans, who will be able to feast on 139 films from 40 countries around the world over 11 days, starting today, at the eighth annual Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema, presented by International House.