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"You've just never lived until you see someone do 'Appalachian Stomp' to rock 'n' roll."
Photo by Candace diCarlo CHERYL SHIPMAN Position: Administrative Assistant, Benjamin Franklin Scholars/General Honors Office Length of service: 17 years Other stuff: Responsible for keeping the group's minimalist budget in balance.
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The return of the Cowboy Junkies
Grant Lee Buffalo. Cowboy Junkies. Scenes from an acid trip through the West? No, just two of the featured artists on "The World Cafe" during the next two weeks. Here's the complete rundown: Thursday, Oct. 1 Singer/songwriter Dayna Kurtz visits the Cafe Friday, Oct. 2 Grant Lee Buffalo discuss and perform selections from their new album, "Jubilee" Monday, Oct. 5 An encore presentation of Joe Ely's visit to the Cafe Tuesday, Oct. 6 Massive Attack perform in the studio
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Multi-school projects provide software for city policy makers
Guns. The Philadelphia police want to track the ones used in crime. Welfare reform. The city of Philadelphia wants to track its impact on services and neighborhoods and people.
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Press missed the story in Suharto ouster
With a passion I had never heard in his voice, Hok, my Chinese hairdresser of many years said: "Oh Bu, write about how it's safe here, not like CNN says, people starving, looting, and robbing. We are losing tourism and investment due to belief that the situation in Jakarta applies to all of Indonesia."
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Happy birthday, ICA
How very urbane: Arty sophisticates. The young and the grunge. Silver-haired, ponytailed, and baseball-capped. Upstairs and down, an eclectic group chatted beneath works by Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe and Laurie Anderson. Penn's venerable Institute for Contemporary Art seemed to smile as it welcomed visitors to its 35th birthday bash Sept. 17.
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Mapping the conflict between man and the Mississippi
Is the Mississippi River, as Mark Twain saw it, a living organism, "the body of the nation"? Or is it, as the Army Corps of Engineers saw it, a plumbing problem to be solved?
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Judith Rodin
A recent campus survey found a majority of Penn undergraduates do not believe alcohol is necessary to have a good time. A whopping 90 percent of the students even said that their social lives need not revolve around drinking. Despite such encouraging attitudes, studies here and elsewhere have shown alarming trends in excessive and binge drinking on college and university campuses. The trends hit close to home last month when three Penn freshmen wound up in the hospital with alcohol-related illnesses.
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Yeah, we got that
African-American Resource Center Staff Assistant Afi Roberson, Volunteer Service Coordinator Isabel Sampson-Mapp and Renal and Rheumatology Divisions Administrative Assistant Yvonne B. McLean were three of the scores of Penn employees who collected over $1,000 worth of school supplies from their colleagues during the Penn Volunteers in Public Service's fall back-to-school drive.
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43 receive Mayor's Scholarships
Forty-three Philadelphians in Penn's class of 2002 have been selected as Mayor's Scholarship recipients, according to President Judith Rodin. The Mayor's Scholarships are the University's most generous financial-aid package, providing need-based support for tuition, fees, room and board with no student loan obligations. Any Philadelphia high school graduate is eligible for the scholarships; 145 Mayor's Scholars are currently enrolled at Penn.
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Hero recovers diary
An alert University City Associates employee and a savvy co-worker managed to reverse a historical disaster Sept. 18 by recovering a nearly 200-year-old diary kept by a notable Philadelphia woman. The diary was written by Deborah Norris Logan, the granddaughter of prominent early Pennsylvanian Isaac Norris and granddaughter-in-law of William Penn's secretary, James Logan.