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Nine honorary degrees to be awarded
Former President and Commencement speaker Jimmy Carter and wife Rosalynn Carter will be two recipients of honorary degrees that will be handed out at Penn's 242nd Commencement on May 18. The Carters are being honored for their efforts to promote human rights, conflict resolution and public health through the Carter Center as well as their efforts on behalf of Habitat for Humanity, which builds housing for needy families. Also scheduled to be recognized with honorary degrees:
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"Occasionally a guy starts dropping his drawers and I just turn away. I couldn't have done this in '93 with Hooligan Row. They were just macho animals."
Photo by Candace diCarlo BARBARA DAVIS Position: Director, Financial Aid, School of Veterinary Medicine Length of service: 11 years. Other stuff: Plays in Penn Recreation's softball league
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Watch out PC: Mac is back
Have you been hearing the good news coming from Apple Computer lately? Maybe not, but Wall Street certainly has. Apple is expected to continue to show profits ($45 million on $1.4 billion in revenue last quarter), and its stock price has more than doubled in the last six months. The outstanding success of Apple's G3 Power PC Macintoshes (which are up to twice as fast as Intel machines), the recent release of QuickTime 3 for streaming video and audio, and the new feature-rich Microsoft Office 98 for Macintosh are all pointing to a company that is on the comeback.
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Our favorite campus lunch spots
That's why there's vanilla and that's why there's chocolate. That's why there's Abner's and that's why there's Koch's -- and that's why the food court in the Shops at Penn has so many booths. Here's a sampling of our faves in flaves. Jason Sobel, Engineering and Applied Science, Class of 2000 "LeBus has all the makings of a gourmet cafeteria: great coffee, sandwiches, salads or fresh baked cookies. Also, you get great bread with every meal, and you don't even have to clean up after yourself."
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A tree grows in West Philly
Photo by Tommy Leonardi Sulzberger Middle School sixth-graders show Harris Wofford, president and CEO of the Corporation for National Service, some of the street trees that they are raising for planting in the community when they graduate.
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Wills makes case for public arts support
Is there a case to be made for continued government support for the arts and humanities? Yes, according to noted author-scholar-critic Garry Wills. But it's not the case most supporters of government arts funding make.
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Rick Beeman
The biggest regret Rick Beeman, Ph.D. , has about his new post as dean for undergraduate education and director of the College, is that he no longer has time to take his Bernese mountain dog, Chief Justice John Marshmallow (Johnny) to doggy play group near Swarthmore College. But Beeman has a solution: In the morning, he asks Johnny if he wants to go to work, and if he jumps in the car, off to work they go. A similar sense of fun invades Beeman's teaching style -- he's been known to dress as Davy Crockett for his crowd-pleasing history lessons.
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After three decades, a quest fulfilled
A famous television ad from the late 1960s showed Abraham Lincoln being rejected for a job because he lacked a college diploma. Gayle Collins (ASC'98) can relate. As she described it, the typical response she got from employers when looking for professional jobs was "Oh, you're perfect for this. Oh, you don't have a degree? Sorry, you're no longer perfect."
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The view from Philly's Left Bank
In the 18th century, it was a bucolic community called Blockley Township. Now, we know it as University City, a rich and diverse community that is a hub of transportation, education, research and medicine with an industrial legacy to boot. Photographer Dave Latakos, whose "A View from University City" is shown here, has created a photo-essay, "Neighborhood Contrasts--University City," that captures all the various architectural, institutional and human elements that give University City its character today.
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Penn prof exposes Kafka as comedian
Kafka's hot and he's also funny. Last week, several high-profile events in honor of a new translation took place in New York City. More than 15,000 turned out at New York's Town Hall for a panel discussion on Kafka, including the participation of E.L. Doctorow, Susan Sontag and Christopher Plummer.