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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.
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It's a landslide for on-line voting
Photocopied pages and shiny flyers littered campus and clung taped to trees, signaling the election season for the Undergraduate Assembly. Candidates made the traditional promises: "Because you deserve a louder voice," along with the unverifiable "Don Johnson wants you to vote for..." Anti-voting flyers were posted as well, proclaiming, "They wouldn't vote for you; Don't vote for them."
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What's new? Tune in and find out
It being spring, the season of renewal, it's only fitting for "The World Cafe" to feature several emerging new artists over the next two weeks. But that doesn't mean that you won't hear old favorites as well. Thurs. April 1 Almo Sounds recording artist Gus talks with host David Dye and performs music from his latest album, "Word of Mouth Parade" Fri. April 2 XTC performs music from "Apple Venus I," plus Jeff Beck in the Album Spotlight
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Goodbye, Columbus winners
Seniors Joshua S. Brogadir (left) and Roshini Thayaparan are among 14 outstanding college seniors chosen to accompany award-winning U.S. youngsters on the Young Columbus Adventure to England and Wales, April 7-15. Thayaparan, a chemistry and urban studies major, and Brogadir, an anthropology and Latin American Studies major, were selected by Parade magazine for the all-expenses-paid trip. The youngsters they will accompany are newspaper carriers or have demonstrated excellence in Newspaper in Education programs.
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Seven win NSF Early Career Development Awards
Rajeev Alur Suresh G. Ananthasuresh Noah Gans Photo by Todd Murray Lorin Hitt
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"I've always had a love of history and geography - you can't be in the industry without that."
DiNardo delights in her own magnificent cake, brought in for the office to share. Photo by Candace diCarlo
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Farber forecasts
Internet godfather David Farber, the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunication Systems, told a full Alumni Hall in the Towne Building on Feb. 24 that universities in the information age must be prepared for technology-aided advances such as multi-institutional seminars, international rump sessions among students, and key lectures from afar. Farber is the first academic from the University to speak to the School of Engineering and Applied Science's Technology, Business and Government Distinguished Lecture series this year.
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Foal recovery
British veterinarian Nuala Summerfield, M.R.C.V.S., a Thouron scholar at the New Bolton Center, administers an injection to "Barbie," a five-day-old foal who suffered from a lack of oxygen during birth, as Jon Palmer, V.M.D., associate professor of medicine in the School of Veterinary Medicine, looks on. Thanks to the supportive care available at Penn's large-animal hospital, Barbie has an 85 percent chance of a full recovery. Photo by Daniel R. Burke
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Oscar grabbers
Do people on Penn's campus have any strong opinions about film, or has the relentless Oscar publicity machine ground them into submission? Our reporter on Locust Walk, Walnut Street and the internet found few exceptions to the face-off between "Shakespeare in Love," "Saving Private Ryan" and "Life is Beautiful." Two of the non-Academy nominated answers were throwbacks to the glorious teen struggle films of the '80s, when pimples and boys with earrings were the biggest problems a movie had to present.
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Sociologist figures out Africa
On the third floor of the McNeil Building, a group of African scholars share cubicles and a mass of raw data that offers an unprecedented view of an entire continent. It is in this room where the African Census Analysis Project, directed by Associate Professor of Sociology Tukufu Zuberi, shows its human face. The ACAP, founded and based at Penn, presently contains the last 50 years of census materials from 15 African nations, with more countries being added each year.