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What's a carnival without a sideshow?
Once a year, I take advantage of the opportunity to check out people from all over in colorful costumes, sample foods not normally found in these precincts, examine merchandise from the tacky to the sublime, and subject myself to a sales pitch or two, all right here on campus. And maybe if I have some time to spare, I might catch a little bit of that track meet nearby.
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Michael Wachter
Penn gets ready for the Next Big Thing -- distributed learning. In the first collaboration of its kind, the University recently announced it has teamed with Baltimore-based Caliber Learning Network Inc. in a distributed-learning agreement that will propel traditional classroom experiences into the age of the Internet
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APPOINTMENTS
Six Faculty Fellows have been appointed to the new comprehensive College Houses. The new Fellows will begin their two-year terms on July 1 and will live and dine in the College Houses with their families, bringing House residents into daily contact with Penn's scholars and teachers. They are informal advisors, program initiators and bridge builders to the other resources of the University. Faculty Fellows are selected by Faculty Masters in consultation with students and staff within each College House.
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Penn welcomes her far-flung sons and daughters back
The University Commencement is traditionally a time for both looking back and looking ahead. The 242nd Commencement ceremony itself, along with the graduation exercises in Penn's 12 graduate and four undergraduate schools, honors the achievements of Penn's latest graduating class as well as the contributions Penn alums and others have made to society.
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The stuff of life made visible
Pennsylvania artist Stacy Levy's site-specific installations serve an educational as well as an aesthetic purpose: they make natural phenomena and aspects of nature that we either cannot see or often ignore plainly visible through sculpture. Levy's work will be much in evidence around Penn over the next month, with two indoor works opening May 17 at the Institute of Contemporary Art and her latest outdoor installation, "Wissahickon Food Web," being formally unveiled that same morning at the Morris Arboretum.
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Three Penn Professors Elected to National Academy of Sciences
PHILADELPHIA -- Three of 60 new members elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences are on the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. All are in Penn's College of Arts and Sciences: Douglas S. Massey, Ph.D., the Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor of Sociology; Paul J. Steinhardt, Ph.D., the Mary Amanda Wood Professor of Physics; and Lewis G. Tilney, Ph.D., a professor of biology. "No other school had more professors in the arts and sciences elected to the National Academy of Sciences this year," said Sam Preston, Ph.D., dean of the School of Arts and Sciences.
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Ten All-Ivies named
Sports was not enough for the five men and five women named to the 1997-98 Academic All-Ivy League list for the winter. To qualify, the 10 had to be starters or key reserves on their varsity teams, but they also needed a grade point average of 3.0 or better. Five of the 10 had grade point averages exceeding 3.5.
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Big fun for Philly film fans
From just around the corner to halfway around the globe, International House brings the best in contemporary and vintage film to Philadelphia during the 10-day Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema. This year's festival offers film-lovers 45 feature films, 41 short subjects and documentaries, seminars and special guests, capped off with a great big Cajun feast, concert and dance party on May 9.
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Why everyone's getting A's
Grade inflation at the nation's colleges and universities is a subject with remarkable resilience: Commentators are reluctant to forget about it, yet few people have taken the trouble to understand the breadth and depth of this phenomenon. Until we do so, solutions will be scarce.
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Penn undergraduate is in "Jeopardy!"
Photo by Steve Crise The clue is: Sebastian "Sub" Stockman (C'01). The answer is: Who is the only freshman competing in this year's "Jeopardy!" College Championships?