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New spaces for living and learning
Two major building projects announced last week will alter the landscape of University City. The Wharton School will break ground in April on a $120 million, state-of-the-art academic center that will house its undergraduate and graduate programs as well as faculty offices. And the University has entered into an agreement with a private firm to renovate the former General Electric building at 31st and Chestnut streets into a 285-unit luxury apartment house.
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Love signals
Try flashing some flowers at your valentine if the movies in "Readers' Best" (page 7) don't seem like the ticket. Here Danielle Weiss (C'02), way before Valentine's Day, purchases some fresh-cut flowers at Roses Florist at the Sansom Common Shops at Penn. No they weren't for her boyfriend. Perhaps she was just practicing. Photo by Kim Weimer
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German films showed war by other means
Weimar Germany was not a place where an animated Bambi could have frolicked. "Weimar films replayed the horrors and fears of the war: mass death, psychosis, apocalyse," Anton Kaes, director of the film studies program at the University of California, Berkeley, said in a lecture last week.
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These students see the big picture
For those of you who maintain that nothing good came out of those '60s movements, consider this: Adults across the country are rediscovering the joys of academe and transforming their lives thanks to a quirky idea from the 1960s. And at Penn, the program inspired by that idea - the Master of Liberal Arts program in the College of General Studies - celebrates its 10th anniversary this year.
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Poetry in motion
"Omnipotent One" was one of two poems that Sista Sabrina (above) recited at the open mike night for poets at the Kelly Writers House, Jan. 30. For more open mike nights at the Writers House and other poetry events, check "What's On," pages 6 and 7. Photo by Mark Garvin
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UnCommonly busy on Sansom
It's 45 degrees and I'm not out here on Sansom Common alone. I'm the only one working, though. The others are out here for recreation. I've got on my alpaca coat, my mohair scarf, lined gloves. Warm would not describe how my nose feels. So why are those people sitting outdoors on Sansom Common, eating, drinking coffee, searching through book bags?
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"Sutton Hoo: Burial Ground of Kings?"
Martin Carver $29.50 cloth; 224 pages; 126 illustrations The Sutton Hoo ship-burial is one of the most significant archaeological finds ever made in Europe. In the late 500s and 600s, an East Anglian kingdom along the southeastern coast of England created an extravagant pagan ceremonial center as an attempt to stem the rising tide of Christianity. One of the mounds contained an ancient ship used as a mausoleum, a tradition later associated with the Vikings.
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Stick it to me
You slapped them all over your notebook when you were in high school. You've probably got a few on your window, or maybe on your refrigerator door. But what are all those stickers doing in an art gallery?
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Susan Fuhrman
Most people in the neighborhood near Penn have thought a good public school would encourage young families to live in the area. But now that planning for just such a school is underway, some neighbors have begun to worry. Will the new school impoverish the programs of other area schools that have a measure of success?
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United they stand
A program that united eight Jewish and eight African-American Penn students to learn about each others' history and culture won an award at the 1998 Shusterman Hillel International Professional Staff Conference in Princeton, N.J.