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University of Pennsylvania Honored with Clery Award for Campus Safety Improvements
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania is one of two institutions of higher education selected to receive the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Award for 2003.Established in 1994, the award is presented annually by Howard and Connie Clery in memory of their daughter Jeanne Ann to schools and individuals who have done extraordinary things to make college and university students safer. Jeanne Ann Clery was murdered in her Lehigh University dorm room in 1986 by a fellow student who was unknown to her.
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Blast from the past at record conference
“Don’t Hang Up” by the Orlons rattled the Gothic-style rafters of the Class of 1949 Auditorium in Houston Hall, but no one got up to dance. Two of the men who made Philadelphia one of the brightest lights in the popular music galaxy, Joe Tarsia, founder of Sigma Sound Studios, and Dave Appell, who worked as a composer, engineer and producer at Cameo-Parkway Records, nodded their heads in time to the driving beat. They were at Penn as featured speakers when the national conference of the Association of Recorded Sound Collections met here May 28 to June 1.
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A big check is a minor headache
Illustration by Bo Brown Dear Benny,I recently received an e-mail and saw an item in the Almanac about cashing checks drawn on Penn’s account at Mellon Bank. What are we supposed to do with checks over $5,000? I need to cash an advance in excess of $5,000 annually and haven’t found an easy way to do it. Does the University have a system in place to help individuals like me? — Need Cash in a Hurry
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BOOKQUICK/New from the University Press
At the heart of the tumult that marked the 1960s was the unprecedented scale of student protest on university campuses around the world. Identifying themselves as the New Left, as distinguished from the Old Left socialists who engineered the labor protests of the 1930s, these young idealists quickly became the voice and conscience of their generation.
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Fine Arts faculty lend sculptor a hand
Former Penn student and world-renowned cartoonist Charles Addams (FA’34,Hon’80) would not have missed the reference. The new entryway into the Charles Addams Fine Arts Hall—the Kelly Family Gates—bears a striking resemblance to one of Addams’ most memorable characters, Thing of the Addams Family.
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Water served with every meal
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STAFF Q&A/David Millar
STAFF Q&A/Penn network security guru Dave Millar fiddles around with friends and colleagues If it’s noon Thursday, it must be string-along time. That’s the time when Dave Millar and a bunch of his friends and colleagues on and off campus gather in Steinhardt Plaza behind Steinberg-Dietrich Hall for a folksy jam session.
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Campus Buzz
Commencement roundup: The weather couldn’t have been better and the spirit was celebratory at Penn’s 247th Commencement May 19. The tenor of the times, however, was manifested in the more subdued form that celebration took.
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Room to play
Penn’s student performing arts organizations are coming closer to a new home in Stouffer College House. Work is now under way on a new performing arts hub in the former Stouffer basement dining hall. When it opens in August 2004, the facility will offer much-needed rehearsal and meeting space for the Performing Arts Council’s 43 member groups. “The biggest thing the new hub offers is appropriate facilities for many of the groups that are now practicing in inappropriate spaces,” said Performing Arts Coordinator Ty Furman.
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Jim Branagh