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Labov's 1972 book is still something to talk about
Anyone who remembers last year's controversy over the Oakland school board's decision to use "Ebonics" as an instructional tool knows that the subject of "black English" in the classroom is very much a live issue -- and an extremely sensitive one. So perhaps it is fitting that the book that started it all is once again available at your local bookstore.
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Mortgage program encourages rehabs
New enhancements to the University's guaranteed mortgage program encourage would-be West Philadelphia homeowners interested in buying a fixer-upper to get in and get their hands dirty sooner and with less expense. Part of ongoing strategies to stimulate home ownership in West Philadelphia, the program-upgrades offer Penn faculty and staff the option to finance 120 percent of their mortgage for a property that needs rehabilitation (see related story).
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Rose Named New Managing Director of the Annenberg Center at the University of Pennsylvania
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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Cendent CEO Henry R. Silverman Makes the Largest Gift Ever to an American Law School
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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Winners!
The Penn chess team had a spectacular finish in the Pan-Am Games. "Based on our performance, we can claim to have the top undergraduate chess team in North America," crowed team captain David Arnett (left), shown with fellow teammates (left to right) Anna Khan, Chernee Ooi and Jesse Liu. The group tied for 4th/5th place, competing against adults and scholarship-subsidized chess players from other schools. "To my knowledge, we were the highest finishing school of college-aged students," said Arnett.
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A biblical farce
The Mask & Wig Club's 110th annual production may do "justice to the stage and credit to the University," but what it does to the Good Book is another matter entirely. Upholding their illustrious tradition, the Mask & Wiggers drag "The Greatest Story Ever Told" kicking and screaming into parodyland, spoofing religious broadcasters, the Spice Girls (they're "The Christ Girls" in this photo), Schoolhouse Rock and current events along the way. And, of course, there's the famous chorus line.
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Abuses of power
Allegations that President Clinton had a sexual relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, and urged her to lie under oath, have become subjects of a criminal investigation and spurred talk of impeachment. This happened because two laws -- the Independent Counsel Act and the Constitution's impeachment clause -- confer extremely broad powers with few legal checks. When such power is used in ways not faithful to the purposes for which it was created, our constitutional structure is imperiled.
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"You'd get up and sing 'O sole mio,' and then people would ask you for their minestrone."
STUART JASPER Position: Assistant to the Business Administrator, Annenberg School for Communication Length of service: 2 years. Other stuff: Recenty viewed -- "Deconstructing Harry" and "Boogie Nights." Recently read -- "Coffee Will Make You Black: A Novel" by April Sinclair
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MLK award winner befriends local communities
What surprises Margaret Quern about the Dr. Martin Luther King Community Involvement Award presented to her Jan. 19 was not the praise and recognition, but the simple reward of being regarded as a "friend" by those with whom she works. "As the first European American to receive this award I was honored and humbled," Quern said. "But I strongly believe that you get more than you give."
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Moshe Safdie speaks
The rise of the automobile and "megascale" buildings have proven the greatest catalysts to changes in urban design, according to internationally renowned architect Moshe Safdie. Safdie, the first of several luminaries scheduled in a lecture series at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, addressed a crowd approaching 200 Jan. 26 in Meyerson Hall. Megascale buildings, like malls and hospitals, create interior "virtual environments" with no need for natural ventilation from windows or interaction with their surroundings, Safdie said.