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Hypocrisy torpedoed diversity

University City's hot -- and cool -- tonight

Pianist Jacky Terrasson will perform at the Annenberg Center as part of the first "Go West! Go International! 3rd Thursdays" program.

Job postings change

The University's job listings have moved, and so has the Penn Job Application Center. The new Job Application Center has five computer stations with Internet access, and offers help with completing applications. The center, open 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, is at 3550 Market Street, Suite 110, telephone 222-3400. Listings of what's open are also available to anyone with Internet access on the new Human Resources Web site.

Survey results challenge faculty assumptions

In today's fast-paced, highly interactive, communication-oriented society, traditional lecture and discussion courses no longer stimulate students the way they once did. In fact, students are eager for courses that provide hands-on learning experiences linked to real-world problems. But, as my research on the subject demonstrated, the potential for academically-based community service to enrich the undergraduate curriculum at Penn remains unrealized, and students, faculty and administrators all have a role to play in changing this situation.

"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.

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.

"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.

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."

Sweat...

... in 7,500 square feet, with bikes, treadmills, stair climbers, rowing ergometers and cross-training equipment, free weights and weight machines at the new Ellen and Howard C. Katz Fitness Center in Gimbel Gym, 37th and Walnut streets. The annual cost? Students, $75; faculty and staff, $200; spouses, alumni and other Penn affiliates, $250. Photo by Dwight Luckey

Library goes high tech

The makeshift, ground floor entrance into the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center has been shut, replaced by the newly renovated entrance into a spectacular, information-age library. At 3 p.m. Sept. 11, President Judith Rodin cut the first of a series of ribbons to inaugurate the new spaces inside.