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A looming 40th birthday can do strange things to a person. For some, it heralds floating anxiety about the passing of youth and dreams unfulfilled. For others, it’s a call to action. Bob Alig, associate vice president for Alumni Relations, saw it as an opportunity to try something he’d never done before: run a marathon. In 2002 he ran his first, in Philadelphia, and this spring he stepped up the challenge and competed in the prestigious and notoriously hilly Boston Marathon.
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Listening to James Hunter sing on People Gonna Talk is a disorienting experience: The record release date says “2006”—but the music says “1965.” Hunter’s silky, soulful vocals call to mind Jackie Wilson and Sam Cooke, while his backing band provides rhythms to rival the best work of the famed Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section that backed Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett and Paul Simon.
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STAFF Q&A/Being a College House dean is a full-time job, and then some, but Nathan Smith wouldn’t have it any other way. “You're at work the minute you step outside your apartment door.” As house dean of Ware College House, Nathan Smith is part enforcer, part social programmer, part mentor. And since he and his wife, Ivonne Vidal Pizarro, live in an apartment in the house, he’s rarely completely off-duty.
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Top Stories Penn’s annual impact? $9.6B, report says Fischl on the body
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Beginning in the 1920s, Penn’s female students welcomed in spring with dancing, song and the crowning of a May Queen. The May Day tradition is no longer in practice, but in its heyday, the celebration included a procession, dancing, pantomime—which the women’s student newspaper, Bennett News, called “a whimsical affair”—and, finally, the crowning of the queen whose identity was “cloaked in mystery” until the celebrations of May Day.
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Top Stories Ask Benny: What's the oldest tree on campus?
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Take advantage of the long days and warm evenings by visiting the Morris Arboretum’s Garden Railway. Opening on June 17, the railway is a miniature world set in a beautiful summer garden, with historic buildings, train tunnels and overhead trestles made entirely of natural materials. Train enthusiasts can bring their kids (and a picnic dinner) to the Arboretum on June 21, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., for a celebration of the new railway, “Fairy Tale Rail II.” Kids are encouraged to dress up.
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Top Stories Penn’s annual impact? $9.6B, report says Fischl on the body
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Top Stories Ask Benny: What's the oldest tree on campus?
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RESEARCH/A Penn professor has found a way to deliver two effective cancer drugs to tumors at the same time. Taxol and doxorubicin are two of the most commonly used—and most effective—cancer drugs available to doctors today.