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Outreach to youth is more than just social work
Janice Ferebee's been down, but she came back, and now she's got it goin' on all over the place. Her mother's inspiration and her own personal setbacks have spurred the social work master's candidate and W.E.B. DuBois College House graduate fellow to devote her life to boosting teenagers' self-confidence and giving them the strength they need to resist the temptations of life in the 'hood.
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University secretary named
Rosemary McManusThe new secretary of the University will be Rosemary McManus, vice president for housing impact at Fannie Mae's northeastern regional office in Philadelphia. Fannie Mae is the nation's largest source of home mortgage money. McManus will take over March 16, succeeding Interim Secretary Barbara Lowery, who will continue in her regular post as associate provost.
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Landlords: good, bad and ugly
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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Get out, get fit, have fun
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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Topped off at Sansom Common
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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Thouron Scholars named
Six University students and seven students from universities in the United Kingdom were recently named 1998 Thouron Scholars.
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A salute to Mr. Lincoln
THE UNIVERSITY WIND ENSEMBLE joins in the spirit of this year's Penn Reading Project with President Judith Rodin reading Carl Sandburg's poetic tribute to Abraham Lincoln. The poem, incorporated into Aaron Copland's "Lincoln Portrait," is part of an "all-Lincoln" program celebrating the Wind Ensemble's 20th anniversary.
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Segregation is discrimination
On February 11, I was called to speak before the Advisory Board of the President's Initiative on Race at a public meeting held in San Jose, Calif. I was asked to address one fundamental question: What is the relationship between race and poverty in the United States? As I am known for my studies of residential segregation in American cities, I assumed that my role was to outline the high degree of black segregation in U.S. urban areas and to trace out the implications of this fact for the well-being of African Americans.
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Chronicles of cultures
The Margaret Mead Traveling Film and Video Festival, a showcase of cultural documentaries, makes its sixth annual visit to the University of Pennsylvania Museum Feb. 28-March 1, with highlights from the American Museum of Natural History's annual film fest. A special focus of this year's festival is grassroots film and video, with a special program on community video on Friday afternoon and documentary films about grassroots media on Friday evening. The festival's schedule includes:
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Penn rises in U.S. News rankings
Wharton retained its No. 3 ranking. The Graduate School of Education moved up to 10 from 18. And the law school, which rose to 8 from 11, joined law schools across the country in terming the rankings "unreliable." Unreliable or not, Penn made a strong showing in this year's U.S. News & World Report annual rankings of graduate and professional school programs, scheduled to have been available on newstands Feb. 23.