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Forums invite staff to voice ideas, concerns
Penn employees who get a letter requesting their presence in a meeting with the University's executive vice president need not worry. No one's in trouble, you've just been selected at random to participate in the "Forums" -- informal chats designed to let you speak your mind and suggest some improvements. For the past year and a half, Executive Vice President John Fry has been meeting with staffers once or twice a month in the Forums.
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Rethinking juvenile justice
In 1999, the juvenile court will be 100 years old. Instead of being a celebration, the 100th anniversary will be a bittersweet event. The juvenile court is under attack and in danger of going out of business. The public has lost confidence in the ability of the juvenile justice system to respond effectively to the problems of serious, repeat and violent young offenders. As a result, elected public officials are scurrying to enact legislation and implement policies designed to treat young offenders like adults.
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Universities grapple with urban ills
For dozens of us trying to connect American colleges and universities with their communities, the annual late fall meeting at Penn of the National Conference on University-Community School Partnerships has become something of a cousins' club. Now, five years after the first conference supported by the DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, the cousins are growing up.
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Van Pelt's first floor ready for business
Speed. Comfort. Light. That's what has emerged so far from Van Pelt Library's first floor demolition. The brand new reference and study facilities add 44 desktop work stations and 56 laptop-accessible stations that mean high-speed access not only to Penn's holdings but to the catalogs of major research libraries around the world. For comfort, the new area seats 120 in spaces that include well-lit lounges and quiet study areas. The 30-foot cherrywood service desk custom-made by furniture designer Thomas Moser is giving, well, service.
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OBITUARIES
Jay S. Seibert of Dental School Jay S. Seibert, 69, former associate dean for academic affairs and director of the graduate periodontology program, died Dec. 19 of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease) at his home in Devon. Seibert, whose distinguished teaching had earned him a Lindback Award, had been a professor and chairman of periodontology since 1973. He also received the Dental Alumni Society Award of Merit. He graduated from Penn Dental School in 1953 and studied periodontics at Baylor University, completing his training in 1960.
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South African justice returns to learn from youths
"The wisdom of an adult can come from a child." Seventeen-year-old University City High School senior Victoria Arter furiously scribbled the heartfelt platitude into the notebook carefully poised on her lap, as South African Justice Yvonne Mokgoro addressed the room of wide-eyed, high school students Mokgoro, South Africa's first black female jurist who sits on the nation's Constitutional Court, spent time during a recent three-day stay in Philadelphia speaking with Penn faculty and law students.
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PENN Friends offers 'round-the-clock support to staff
You're a supervisor with a clinically depressed staff member. Not only do you have to decide how best to interact with the employee, but the rest of your staff needs education about appropriate responses to such behavior. Or, you've noticed your casual drinking has taken a turn toward excess and your job could be on the line if you continue the substance abuse. Maybe something great just happened, like your marriage or a job promotion, but it means drastic changes in the way you run your life.
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What we're reading and whether we like it
Most students questioned at the close of last semester either laughed uproariously at the thought of extracurricular reading during finals or ran hurriedly down Locust Walk emitting snarls and non-sequiturs at our man on the street. For those who did take enough study breaks last month to glance at something other than a textbook, they struggled to recall the names of the books, never mind names of the authors (we added them).
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More lessons in patient care
NBC news correspondent and author Betty Rollin spoke about nursing from the patient's point of view, relating her experiences as a breast cancer patient and as a caregiver to her dying mother, at the School of Nursing graduation ceremony Dec. 19.
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Buzz Bissinger prays for the city
Pulitzer Prize winner, best-selling author and Penn graduate Buzz Bissinger has vivid memories of the kinds of images and emotions a city should evoke, and they're not of lavish stage shows or Center City glitz or the posh retail and restaurant emporiums of Walnut Street. "I'm a product of cities; they're places that are alive, that when you're walking down the street, they're an onslaught upon the senses," Bissinger said. "And I do fear that's being lost."