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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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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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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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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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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."
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What does a world-rock sensation do for an encore? "World Cafe" listeners can find out March 12, when Beck talks with host David Dye about his latest album. There's plenty of good stuff before and after that, though: Thursday, Feb 25 V2 recording artists Mercury Rev perform work from their latest album, "Deserter's Songs" Friday, Feb 26 Liz Phair joins David for a performance and interview featuring music from her latest album, "Whitechocolatespaceegg"
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While alcohol use on campuses overall is on the decline, there's still a hangover: a larger percentage of the students who do drink, drink heavily. A group of Penn students are enrolled in a General Honors seminar aimed at identifying alcohol-related problems at Penn and devising student-led approaches to reducing them. The 12 students in the new seminar include drinkers and teetotalers, students acting out of altruism and out of enlightened self-interest. John Buchanan (C'01) falls into that last category.
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Five Penn faculty were named recipients of the coveted Alfred P. Sloan Jr. Fellowships, awarded annually to promising young faculty. Each of the five will receive a two-year grant of $35,000 for their research. The recipients are:
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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.