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Rooms full of blues
Forget red. Blue is the color for this weekend at Penn, as the second annual Greater Philadelphia Blues Fest comes to campus for two nights as part of a three-day festival of stellar performances by some of the area's - and the country's - leading blues performers. The festival begins on Friday, Oct. 2, with the "Thank God It's Friday Evening Blues Party" at the Institute of Contemporary Art, featuring local faves Georgie Bonds and the Blues Keepers and Chicago legend Mighty Joe Young (pictured).
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Greco tells businesses to change values
A woman who has been the most powerful female banker in the country emerged from the belly of the beast Sept. 15 to warn that American business needed to change its corporate culture to stay successful in the future. Predicting a disaster unless workers were given respect, Rosemary Greco spoke to an audience of about 80 at the Harold Prince Theater, kicking off the 1998-99 program of the Association of Women Faculty and Administrators on campus.
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Penn docs win Lasker Award
The nation's most prestigious honor for outstanding contributions to medical research will go to two cancer researchers whose work on the role genes play in cancer broke new ground. Peter C. Nowell, M.D., Gaylord P. Harnwell Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and Alfred G. Knudson, Jr., M.D., Ph.D., an adjunct faculty member here and a geneticist at the Fox Chase Medical Center, are two of three scientists who received the Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award Sept. 25 in New York City.
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Hot dining spots nearby
Where's a hungry student to eat on a night on the town? Mainly somewhere somewhat international - Japanese, Chinese and Mexican. Here's where some of the strollers down Locust Walk like to dig in. ZACHARY LODNER, COLLEGE, CLASS OF '02 "Genji's the spot. The sushi is awesome." NATHAN THOMPSON, COLLEGE, CLASS OF '99 "I guess the New Deck. The menu's not bad and you can enjoy a beer with it."
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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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"People don't even give it a chance -it's 'Ewww! Oooh! How can you do that stuff?'"
Photo by Candace diCarlo JEANNETTE TASEY Position: Medical photographer, Biomedical Communications, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center Length of service: 3 years Other stuff: She has also studied guitar construction and repairs guitars on the side.
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Program engenders new areas of study
What a difference 25 years makes, and the Women's Studies program is celebrating just that. Between 1964 and 1974, the women's experience at Penn transmogrified like no other: In that time, the University ceased to monitor women's social lives; the College for Women became integrated with the entire University; women started writing for the school newspaper; student governments merged; and women got organized on a grand scale.
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"The Language of the Heart, 1600-1750"
"The Language of the Heart, 1600-1750" by Robert A. Erickson, $36.95 cloth; 296 pages. If the heart is most often associated with love, its meanings in the early modern period were far more complicated and unstable. In "The Language of the Heart, 1600-1700," Robert A. Erickson contends that the making of the modern world coincided with the reconfiguration of gender and that the changes in the representation of the heart both reflected and helped produce this shift.
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Civic House creates hub for outreach
Junior Engineering student Eric Lindberg snatched up pamphlets and flyers that beckoned students to get involved in community activities. He stopped by the opening of Civic House, 3914 Locust Walk, last week to see what his friends had been up to and came away with what organizers had hoped -- a civic streak. "I am impressed by all the work and time they took putting this together," Lindberg said. "It inspired me to get involved."