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Annenberg aims to clean up election campaigns
H.G. Wells once described elections as the feast of democracy. "Sadly, most Americans have come to think of them as junk food," said Annenberg School for Communication Dean and Professor of Communication Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Armed with a recently awarded $3.75 million grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Annenberg School will attempt to reverse the downward-spiraling trend of negative political campaigning by establishing new criteria for a more responsible campaign climate.
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Paul Steinke
When Paul Steinke was 12 years old, already a civic-minded preadolescent growing up in Northeast Philadelphia, he noticed a state representative had displayed a sign in front of his office that listed his district's neighborhoods. He forgot one. The 12-year-old Steinke shot off a letter to the Northeast Breeze and within two weeks, the state rep's sign was changed to include the left-out neighborhood, Burholme, and a letter of apology from the politician graced the Breeze's pages.
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Corporate America turns out for Wharton students' event
The sponsors were a who's who of corporate America, from financial operations like Goldman, Sachs & Company and Chase Manhattan to media corporations like Home Box Office and Time Inc. Sprint was there, as were ARCO, Nabisco and Proctor & Gamble, not to mention Chrysler Corporation, Hewlett Packard and Johnson & Johnson. That's only part of what made the conference and job fair run by Wharton's African-American MBA Association so important.
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Shooter caught
The man police believe shot a Penn student during an abortive carjacking attempt in November has been arrested. Philadelphia Police Detective Robert Stansfield of the Southwest Detective Bureau obtained a warrant Jan. 7 identifying Keith Schofield, 33, of the 4500 block of Walnut Street as the suspect, and police made the arrest two days later. Schofield, who was to be arraigned Jan. 21, is charged with attempted murder, robbery and related offenses for the Nov. 17 shooting of College senior James McCormack.
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New center focuses on service
The University has established a new center to coordinate community service, to be housed in the building formerly occupied by the Department of Public Safety, 3914 Locust Walk. The Community Service Learning Center, modeled after the Kelly Writers House, another program of the 21st Century Project for the Undergraduate Experience, will serve as a hub for students, faculty and staff who are interested in community service.
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Fossil indicates fish had fingers
The fish almost got away. But Biology Professor Neil Shubin and doctoral student Ted Daeschler, a paleontologist at the Academy of Natural Sciences, decided to take a closer look at the fossil they collected from a highway-widening project and found something dramatic: evidence that fingers and other limbs may have developed in fish before the first amphibians migrated onto dry land.
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"I love preaching. I'm a good storyteller, I think, because I read so many books to my kids."
At the blessing of her clerical robe before her ordination, Tess Fuller finally knew she had made the right decision. Photo by Candace diCarlo
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News briefs
Dousing alcohol abuse Among the best: A Penn program addressing alcohol abuse was cited by a publication that goes to college and university presidents around the country. The student-designed program -- a joint effort of the Drug and Alcohol Resource Team (D.A.R.T.), Students Together Against Acquaintance Rape (S.T.A.A.R.) and the Panhellenic and Interfraternity councils -- was recognized as an "exemplary campus-based effort" in the category of Environmental and Targeted Approaches, by the 1997-98 edition of the "Promising Practices Sourcebook."
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What CDs are getting the most play
Music lovers on Locust Walk told us which CDs they were wearing holes through. Classical is definitely out. American and British CDs are in. Mateo Ferguson, Wharton, Class of 1999 Joe, "All That I Am" "For the R&B lover in all of us. A voluptuous mixture of sensual rhythms and soulful ballads."
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Computer training offered
The Office of Information Systems and Computing's Technology Training Group offers hands-on training for many popular applications for personal-computer users of all skill levels. This month, the TTG will offer: