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Applicant deluge In response to layoffs and a decrease in hiring following the Sept. 11 tragedies, college graduates are postponing their entrance into the job market and are looking at places like Penn to further their education. Jane Austin, assistant dean for admissions at the Law School, said her office is exploring various means to handle the deluge of applicants. “We’ve hired some additional part-time staff and are using different means of receiving applications, like the Internet,” she said. Compared to last year, the Law School has seen a 30 percent rise.
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Courses from Human Resources help you manage work and home-life issues. Three free programs Performance video Bring a brown bag to this lunch-hour video, “Discussing Performance,” showing how to improve the quality of performance discussions between staff members and their managers. The video, for employees at all levels, teaches how to tackle contentious issues and how to work collaboratively. - March 14, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., 3624 Market Street, Suite 1B South
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—Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics, on the commercial future of cloning (The New York Times, Feb. 15)
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Students in the College of Arts and Sciences who wanted to learn computing skills used to get directed to the Engineering School’s program, where they would have to compete with students for whom information technology was a native language. “Students in Arts and Sciences feel it’s not a level playing field for them,” said Cecelia Buchanan, director of a new program, the Computing Certificate in Arts and Sciences. “Just going to the engineering building seems to be a hurdle.” The new program is helping SAS students cross the campus’ own digital divide.
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In the span of 24 hours, a lot of things can change. Just ask Akiva Fox, who recently found himself before a crowd of 60 Shakespeare fans wearing a golden crown. Tall and dark-haired, Fox originally had a behind-the-scenes role as director of the Underground Shakespeare Company’s spring show, “Richard II,” but last minute cast changes now threw him into the spotlight. “I’m a senior now and I was one of the founders of the Company, so it’s nice that I got to direct for my last year,” said Fox. “I didn’t exactly count on the whole playing Richard II though.”
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When Executive Vice President John Fry came here seven years ago, he came to a place that had, in his words, “great people with great ideas, but for some reason [they] couldn’t get over the implementation barrier”—Penn’s deliberative, consensus-seeking institutional culture. Fry’s first encounter with Penn was in 1995, as a consultant at Coopers and Lybrand, where he led the team hired by the University to examine all aspects of its operations in order to improve efficiency and cut costs.
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Thumbs up for Harry S Truman’s presidency. Thumbs down for Bill Clinton’s. Ronald Reagan probably was more clever than he appeared. And Dubya, although he’s been looking good in response to Sept. 11, had better mind the home front so it can sustain the war front.
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Flip open any textbook on early American history and you’ll find tales of Europeans riding roughshod over Native Americans. The stories involve bloodshed and battle, with Indians usually playing the part of the losers. Now turn east, away from the West’s invasion-conquest model, and a more nuanced picture emerges. In “Facing East From Indian Country” (Harvard, 2001), Penn Professor of History Daniel K. Richter writes a new history on how Native Americans interacted with European settlers. This time Native Americans take center-stage as skilled adapters.
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Last fall, we told you about Start on Success, a program that gets University City High School students with learning and developmental disabilities on track for success in the world of work (Current, Nov. 8, 2001). Now we’d like you to meet one of the program’s success stories.