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A new survey of local landlords will soon help university people who want to live near campus. Developed by the student-run Penn Consumers Board, the survey will reveal who the really good -- and really bad -- landlords are in the neighborhood.
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Penn's Recreation Department is not just for students. Besides running Penn's intramural and club sport programs, the department offers fitness programs and classes for faculty, staff and community residents, young and old alike. Most of the classes offered by Recreation are full-semester programs, but there are also mini-classes that begin in March. Next month's course offerings include:
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The recent "topping out" ceremony at Sansom Common attracted dozens of onlookers from across the University, celebrating the placement of the last steel beam on top of the building. With construction on time and within budget, the ceremony Feb. 12 launched the final phase of construction for the $120 million, 300,000 square-foot retail, dining, hotel and residential complex. Construction began Aug. 1, 1997.
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PHILADELPHIA --- Henry R. Silverman, president and chief executive officer of Cendant Corporation, Stamford, Conn., and Parsippany, N. J., a global leader in consumer and business services, has made the largest outright gift ever to an American law school -- $15 million -- to the University of Pennsylvania Law School, according to University of Pennsylvania President Judith Rodin. Rodin made the announcement today following the meeting of the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia last week. Silverman, a trustee, is a 1964 graduate of the Penn Law School.
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PHILADELPHIA --- Michael J. Rose, Executive Director of the Glassboro Center for the Arts at Rowan University, has been named Managing Director of the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, effective March 16. "Michael Rose is exactly the person we need to lead the Annenberg Center into the 21st Century," said Penn's Interim Provost Michael L. Wachter. "He is enormously creative, energetic and knowledgeable about the performing arts and he has strong financial, marketing and managerial skills."
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For Valentine's Day, host David Dye has collected love songs and classic duets from days gone by for a special Saturday edition of "The World Cafe." There's plenty more music to love during the regular weekday-afternoon editions as well. Featured artists performing during the next two weeks:
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The University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS) recently received the 1998 National Quality Health Care Award, one of the industry's most prestigious honors in the recognition of high-quality health care. The award was created six years ago by the National Committee for Quality Health Care (NCQHC) and is co-sponsored by Modern Healthcare, a healthcare trade journal.
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More than a half century of breeding, exhibiting and judging show dogs has finally brought M. Josephine Deubler to this: She will determine exactly who is top dog this year.
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Just picture eager early-decision admits languishing through senior year in high school. "We've got all these kids panting to identify themselves with Penn, lining up to be our kids by December, and then we just bombard them with distracting junk mail for nine months before we let them do anything serious about Penn," e-mailed Jim O'Donnell, professor of classical studies and vice provost for information systems and computing, and, as if that weren't enough, faculty master of Hill College House.
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Should teaching hospitals accept government subsidies to shrink the number of residents they train? Probably. Will for-profit management of university hospitals jeopardize the quality of care? Maybe, maybe not. Should academic medical centers speed up their clinical research to satisfy pharmaceutical companies? Probably not.