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Penn triples wind power purchase
Top Stories Penn’s annual impact? $9.6B, report says Fischl on the body
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For The Record: The rites of spring
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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John MacDermott
WHO HE IS: Director for Instructional Technology, SAS Computing YEARS AT PENN: 18, on and off. WHAT HE DOES: MacDermott oversees computing support for several humanities departments, but his specialty is “instructional uses of technology.” That means supervising the computer labs, helping with online instruction and overseeing support for users of Blackboard, an online course management system.
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Movable Feast: Zocalo
Top Stories Ask Benny: What's the oldest tree on campus?
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The pragmatist
Q&A/The Director of Penn’s Master of Science Program in Criminology talks about working with former Attorney General Janet Reno and what drew her to criminology in the first place. “It was hard and stressful in many ways, but it was kind of a golden time.”
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Penn's annual impact? $9.6B
Top Stories Penn’s annual impact? $9.6B, report says Fischl on the body
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Going the distance, with a little help from their colleagues
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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What's the oldest tree on campus?
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Old school
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.