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$5M for improved campus security
Penn President Amy Gutmann, along with Provost Ronald Daniels and EVP Craig Carnaroli, has announced a new $5 million commitment to enhance the safety of our campus and surrounding community. That amount is in addition to the $2 million supplemental resources previously authorized this fiscal year. “The safety of our students, faculty and staff continues to be our number one priority,” said Gutmann.
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Here comes the blushing—and bargaining—bride
BOOK/Wharton prof tells brides-to-be how to avoid paying too much for their wedding day.
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Cover story: An experimental era
Q&A/This spring the 6th floor of Van Pelt is celebrating Ben Franklin with an exhibit on Colonial education in the Delaware Valley. We talk to the library staff who brought “Educating the Youth of Pennsylvania” from a rough idea to a fully realized exhibit. “Charter schools today remind me a lot of what was going on during the Colonial period.”
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Self-discipline pays big dividends in the classroom
Self-discipline may be more important than high IQ when it comes to getting good grades and graduating from high school. Those are the findings of a study by Angela Duckworth, doctoral candidate at the Positive Psychology Center, and Martin E.P. Seligman, the Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology that set out to measure self-discipline in eighth grade students.
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Katrina and race
There’s a difference between something being racial and it being racist, according to Michael Eric Dyson, Penn’s Avalon Professor of Humanities. The government’s sluggish and inadequate response to the stranded, hungry and scared flood victims of Hurricane Katrina, he says, was racial, but not overtly racist. “There is a difference between active malaise and passive indifference,” he told a crowd at the Penn Bookstore on Jan. 20. “This government believes that government is the enemy of the people.”
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Movable Feast: Pod
By THE CURRENT STAFF For all of West Philly’s food charms—from great hoagie shops to authentic corner taverns, superb ethnic dining to convenient food trucks—it was only when Pod arrived in 2001 that University City finally had a cutting-edge eatery to call its own. And Pod certainly fills that niche.
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Ask Benny: Is it a bus stop? No, it’s public art
Dear Benny: What’s up with that new piece of public art on 40th Street? It looks like an ill-conceived bus stop. Can you explain how Penn decides to spend the 1 percent for public art? — Curious Dear Perplexed by Public Art: The “ill-conceived bus stop” is actually a piece of public art by sculptor Andrea Blum entitled “Plateau.” Though we agree it looks a little bleak right now, by spring you should see plenty of Penn folk interacting with the concrete and steel “outdoor lounge.”
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Harold Borders
WHO HE IS: Instrumentation specialist, Physics and Astronomy YEARS AT PENN: 29.5. “Not that I’m counting.”
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Ahead of the Current
TALK/A GSE professor leads teacher training in a tsunami-devastated area of Indonesia.. Penn helping rebuild schools in Banda Aceh It’s been more than a year since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and earthquake leveled towns and communities in several countries, killing more than 280,000 people.