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XPN meets Y
By The Current Staff Late last month Penn’s member-supported radio station, WXPN-88.5 FM, began broadcasting Y-Rock On XPN, an alternative rock show on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday nights.
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Dog tired
Penn Law student Brant Altman introduced his 4-month-old yorkie, Emma, to Penn’s campus recently, taking the puppy for a walk down Locust Walk. Then Emma apparently decided she needed a lift. Photo credit: Mark Stehle
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Staff Q&A: Stephanie Ives
When Stephanie Ives was hired in the summer of 1999 as Penn’s first alcohol coordinator, the campus had just emerged from an intensive review of its alcohol and drug use culture. Former president Judith Rodin had pulled together a special commission to look at the issue the year before, and in the spring of ’99, after a tragic accident involving an alumnus, then-provost Robert Barchi launched the Working Group on Alcohol Abuse.
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Mad 4 Mex
By The Current Staff White Dog Café has the sterling reputation, New Deck Tavern has the old-country feel and Bubble House has the trendy look. But when it comes to the best beer selection in University City, the surprising winner is the unassuming Tex-Mex restaurant hidden away behind all three: Mad 4 Mex.
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Live, in U. City
Experimental dance, a stage set reminiscent of a World Trade Center stairwell and an electronic/classical music fusion are just some of the highlights to hit University City stages during this year’s Philadelphia Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe, which began Sept. 1 and runs through Sept. 16.
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A throwback
By The Current Staff Photo credit: University Archives Even the most fanatical of football fans is unlikely to know much about the “delayed pass” or “flying interference.” But those two plays, introduced by former Penn coach George Washington Woodruff, helped put Penn football at the top of the football world in the late 1890s.
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Taking Over
For somebody like Glen Miller, who has loved basketball since his kindergarten days, having the chance to coach at The Palestra is just about as good as it gets. The storied old arena at 33rd and South streets is, after all, considered a basketball cathedral: It has hosted more games, and more great players and coaches, than any other arena in the world. And now, it’s Miller’s office.
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Fighting the crimes of the future
It's not quite the stuff of science fiction, but Penn’s Jerry Lee Center of Criminology does seem to be taking a page from Steven Spielberg’s “Minority Report”: Working to identify potential murderers before a homicide can occur.
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Animating Chaucer
A few years ago Wendy Steiner, the Richard L. Fisher Professor of English, found herself teaching a class on Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales.” When she came to the Wife of Bath’s Tale—about a knight who is condemned to death unless he can find the answer to the question “What do women want most?”—she marveled anew at the story’s beautiful structure and tightly drawn plot.