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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.
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Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin to Deliver Commencement Address at the University of Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA --- Secretary of the Treasury Robert E. Rubin will deliver the commencement address at the 243rd Commencement of the University of Pennsylvania on Monday, May 17, 1999, according to University President Judith Rodin. The Commencement will begin at 9:30 a.m. at Franklin Field.
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The engineer that could
When Tony Alvarez (EAS'00) was a junior in high school, his girlfriend got pregnant. He had not been a stellar student up to that point, so his response was a little unusual. "I got serious about school," Alvarez says. "I had a lot of friends who were my same age that had kids, and they ended up dropping out of school and selling drugs and things like that, and I knew it was one of those two paths." The path he took was to Penn.
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Make room for history
Matthew Mindrup (GAr'99, right) explains his vision of a new, expanded home for the Atwater Kent Museum to reviewers who visited Meyerson Hall Feb. 4. Mindrup, along with the other students in David Slovic's architecture course, tackled the problem of extending the city's history museum onto Independence Mall via the lobby of the Rohm and Haas Building. Photo by Candace diCarlo
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Bottoms up is thumbs down, these days
It's pledge season, a time of year when new fraternity and sorority members may find themselves facing unfamiliar situations with alcohol and sex. But they've got help, thanks to an army of close to 200 student volunteers. The volunteers are peer educators, and they work for an alphabet soup of organizations that target problem behavior - behavior like unwanted sexual advances or binge eating or excessive drinking.
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Films that question
This year's edition of the Margaret Mead Traveling Film and Video Festival, which stops at the University of Pennsylvania Museum Feb. 26-28, features several works that ask provocative questions. Question Number One: Who owns the stories of indigenous cultures on display in Western ethnographic museums such as Penn's?
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Temps find steadier work at Penn's Job Center
By Sandy Smith Looking for work, or looking for workers? Short-term or long-term? The Penn Job Center has you covered. The Job Center, operated by Todays Penn Partnership since last July, offers one-stop shopping for people looking for and offices looking to fill support positions. The center deepens the partnership between Penn's Division of Human Resources and Todays Office Staffing, which has been providing temporary office staff to the University since 1995.
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Reefer Madness update
Thomas Anthony (Brian Appel, C'01) and Mary St. Helen (Ryan Baber, C'02), who are not quite hip enough, are supposed to reach out to youth in a video against drug abuse, a sort of play within Mask and Wig's play, "From Here to Maturity." The all-male show will continue tonight, tomorrow and Saturday, and March 18 and 19 (the 20th is sold out) at their clubhouse, 310 Quince Street. For information and tickets, call 898-6791 or 898-9999, mailbox WIG.
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Fantasy getaways
The dream spring break vacation of an area travel agent probably includes a land free of spring break travelers trying to arrange their dream spring break. Fantasy vacations may differ in locale, but our writer on Locust Walk noted a few similarities. Warm weather is a common one, as are foreign lands and, well, foreign bodies. Meg Thompson, Wharton, Class of '00 "Ideally for spring break I'd like to be stranded on a desert island with nothing except that cute actor David Borneaz and a bottle of tanning oil."