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2002: A cyberspace odyssey
Just picture eager early-decision admits languishing through senior year in high school. "We've got all these kids panting to identify themselves with Penn, lining up to be our kids by December, and then we just bombard them with distracting junk mail for nine months before we let them do anything serious about Penn," e-mailed Jim O'Donnell, professor of classical studies and vice provost for information systems and computing, and, as if that weren't enough, faculty master of Hill College House.
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Changes in health care challenge teaching hospitals
Should teaching hospitals accept government subsidies to shrink the number of residents they train? Probably. Will for-profit management of university hospitals jeopardize the quality of care? Maybe, maybe not. Should academic medical centers speed up their clinical research to satisfy pharmaceutical companies? Probably not.
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NEWS BRIEFS
Committee examines binge drinking President Judith Rodin has named a special committee on binge drinking and alcohol-related violence. The committee of 14 Penn faculty, staff and students will explore the recent rise in binge drinking at Penn, which mirrors national campus trends, and recommend strategies to reverse the trend and prevent alcohol-related violence on campus.
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Maureen Rush
Maureen Rush spent more than 10 good years on the Philadelphia Police Force before coming to Penn in 1994 to head up Victim Support and Special Services (now just Special Services). In her current role as director of police operations, Rush oversees the daily workings of the Division of Public Safety, recently centralized at the new headquarters at 4040 Chestnut St.
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Wharton course develops inner city
For a dozen years, an enterprising Penn professor and his students have been helping save struggling neighborhoods in Philadelphia, one house at a time. And the effort is spreading to other Philadelphia campuses.
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Future of 40th Street discussed
The buzz of speculation surrounding the fate of 40th Street retail and residential corridor should soon give way to details of development, thanks to a series of recent and upcoming planning discussions between Penn and community and local business representatives. "The University will have a clearer sense of what it wants to do by spring," said Tom Lussenhop, Penn's managing director for institutional real estate.
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Winners!
The Penn chess team had a spectacular finish in the Pan-Am Games. "Based on our performance, we can claim to have the top undergraduate chess team in North America," crowed team captain David Arnett (left), shown with fellow teammates (left to right) Anna Khan, Chernee Ooi and Jesse Liu. The group tied for 4th/5th place, competing against adults and scholarship-subsidized chess players from other schools. "To my knowledge, we were the highest finishing school of college-aged students," said Arnett.
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A biblical farce
The Mask & Wig Club's 110th annual production may do "justice to the stage and credit to the University," but what it does to the Good Book is another matter entirely. Upholding their illustrious tradition, the Mask & Wiggers drag "The Greatest Story Ever Told" kicking and screaming into parodyland, spoofing religious broadcasters, the Spice Girls (they're "The Christ Girls" in this photo), Schoolhouse Rock and current events along the way. And, of course, there's the famous chorus line.
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Abuses of power
Allegations that President Clinton had a sexual relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, and urged her to lie under oath, have become subjects of a criminal investigation and spurred talk of impeachment. This happened because two laws -- the Independent Counsel Act and the Constitution's impeachment clause -- confer extremely broad powers with few legal checks. When such power is used in ways not faithful to the purposes for which it was created, our constitutional structure is imperiled.
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"You'd get up and sing 'O sole mio,' and then people would ask you for their minestrone."
STUART JASPER Position: Assistant to the Business Administrator, Annenberg School for Communication Length of service: 2 years. Other stuff: Recenty viewed -- "Deconstructing Harry" and "Boogie Nights." Recently read -- "Coffee Will Make You Black: A Novel" by April Sinclair