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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.
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Strokes of inspiration
Students from campus organizations, fraternities and sororities and several College Houses spent the afternoon of Jan. 17 at Civic House painting banners featuring quotes from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for display on Locust Walk. The banner-painting kicked-off Penn's semester-long official celebration of Martin Luther King Day. On the holiday itself, students, faculty and staff signed up for volunteer service, participated in panel discussions and heard speeches by Palmer Foundation director Walter Palmer, Rev.
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The world according to Paul Schrader
What happens when you take a kid who, thanks to his strict Calvinist upbringing, never saw a movie until he was 18 and turn him into an author/director? Chances are you'd get something pretty wild. At least that's what happened in Paul Schrader's case: his films often celebrate the seamier side of the world. But they're more than mere walks on the wild side, as the Paul Schrader retrospective at International House Feb. 3-7 makes clear.
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Don't move a muscle
The outcome of the gymnastics season is in the balance as Kirby Thorpe (C'00) practices with the team. The defending Ivy and Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference team champs started off with a big win against Cornell. They have high hopes for the Ivy Classic Championship, Sunday, Feb. 28, 1 p.m., at the Palestra. The rest of the season schedule is on line at the Penn Athletics Web site. Photo by Candace diCarlo
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Math whiz
The 1999 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement went to Richard V. Kadison, Ph.D., Kuemmerle Professor of Mathematics. The prize, considered the American equivalent of a Nobel, was awarded by the American Mathematical Society on Jan. 14. Kadison is one of the founders and leading exponents of the theory of operator algebras, a subject providing the mathematical framework for the basic structure of quantum mechanics.
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Our favorite CDs of 1998
So, of the thousands of new titles that poured into the record stores last year, which ones did Penn students like best? Our small sample suggests that there's no clear favorite, though the Dave Matthews Band appears to have some wide appeal. Our sample also suggests that Penn students don't always choose the most popular or the most commercial in their musical tastes. But then again, who defines "commercial" better than the Material Girl herself, still putting out after all these years?
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The miseducation of John Stephens
As John Stephens sang the last word of "Baby" during the Dec. 5 concert of one of Penn's classiest a cappella groups, Counterparts, someone muttered, "He has an unbelievable voice; he'll be famous someday." When asked what he thinks of that prediction, Stephens, a senior English major, said through an embarrassed laugh, "I hope so." But Stephens, who plays piano on Lauryn Hill's acclaimed new CD, has already become well known to a cappella followers.