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Gotta dance, etc.
There are more than 11,000 undergraduates at Penn, and when last we looked, almost every one of them had formed an a cappella group. So, it's no surprise that our gentle readers mostly chose a cappella groups as their favorite campus performers. Greg Abrams, College, Class of '00 "I'd say Mask and Wig. Besides the fact that I know several people in it, it's usually the raunchiest, but also the most creative. Plus everyone in it is really passionate, generating energy and enthusiasm."
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Staff goes back to school with help from CGS
Over the past year, Richard Connell has been spending more of his time in Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, carefully dividing the hours between his full-time maintenance job there and studying for his non-fiction writing course. Connell has almost finished his first two semesters of a program designed for Penn employees accepted by the College of General Studies and the Wharton Evening School.
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Charles Schwab President David Pottruck Makes $12 Million Gift to the University of Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA --- David S. Pottruck, president and co-chief executive officer of The Charles Schwab Corporation, San Francisco, Calif., has made a $12 million gift to the University of Pennsylvania, according to an announcement today (April 7) by University of Pennsylvania President Judith Rodin.
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The University of Pennsylvania Will Award Honorary Degrees to Five at May 17 Commencement
PHILADELPHIA --- The University of Pennsylvania will confer honorary degrees on five men and women at the 243rd Commencement on Monday, May 17, according to University President Judith Rodin.
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C'mon, big money!
Well, not yet. There weren't any cash prizes being given out when WPVI-TV held "Wheel of Fortune" tryouts at the University of Pennsylvania Museum's Harrison Auditorium March 18, but lucky would-be contestants such as Yasemin Saltuk (C'01) got the chance to spin the wheel for tickets to the show, a chance to audition as a contestant, photos of hosts Pat Sajak and Vanna White, and other surprises.
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Banned
University policy permitting alcohol at registered undergraduate parties has been suspended until further notice, President Judith Rodin and Provost Robert Barchi announced last Friday, following the death of a Phi Gamma Delta alumnus at a party March 20. In addition, the administration announced that city, state and University alcohol policies will be strictly enforced at Skimmer and Spring Fling, canceled the post-Spring Fling block party on Sansom Street and suspended the fraternity.
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"The Guatemalan Military Project: A Violence Called Democracy"
Jennifer Schirmer $47.50 cloth; 344 pages At the same time the Guatemala Truth Commission was issuing its report on genocide in Guatemala, the Penn Press released a new and important book on the same subject. "The Guatemalan Military Project" is the culmination of a decade of first-hand research into the inner workings of the Guatemalan military establishment by Harvard political anthropologist Jennifer Schirmer.
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"So we go in and look at her 'fine' glassware and they're like tumblers from the '40s. We get that all the time."
Fitzgerald, with husband David at their store in Overbrook, which is part of their estate liquidation business. Photo by Candace diCarlo
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Genetic material offers evolutionary answers
The key to discovering the long-term evolution of certain diseases may reside in bits of genetic material previously thought to have no function. A team at the University of Pennsylvania has uncovered an important role for some of these retrotransposons.
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We saw it in a magazine...
...but not in a 'zine or an e-zine. No one chose Salon, Slate, Suck, Feed, Word, or Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency. Yoohoo, Penn. There's a big e-world of e-words out on the Internet. But all that fuss in the media about new forms of communication hasn't had a big impact here.