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Movable Feast: Bubble Lounge
We at the Current have yet to be convinced about bubble tea. Call us unadventurous but the thought of sucking up gelatinous tapioca balls through an oversized straw somehow fails to appeal. We’re pretty sure we’re in the minority, though, since Sansom Street’s Bubble House has become a true campus success story. The brainchild of Wharton grads, the teahouse and Pan Asian restaurant this month expanded operations, opening Bubble Lounge in the next-door space that used to house Paper Garden. At the bar
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Be grateful
Put the holiday rush on hold for one afternoon to remember the true spirit of the season at “Gratitude and Giving,” the 10th annual Peace Around the World event on Dec. 4 from 1:30 to 4:40 p.m. at Penn Museum. There’s plenty for the little ones to do—from craft workshops and storytelling, to dancing and a performance of children’s choral music. The Curio Theatre Company, University City’s newest professional acting troupe, will also present two performances of “The Frog Prince” (right).
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East campus update
Imagine tossing a Frisbee with friends at a sparkling new Penn-owned park along the Schuylkill River. To the east, the Center City skyline soars. To the north, a row of sidewalk cafés attracts students and city residents alike along a rebuilt Walnut Street. And the Schuylkill Expressway—which has blocked University City residents from the waterfront for decades—is nowhere to be seen.
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Public designThe award-winning international architecture firm Fumihiko Maki + Associates, responsible for The Sam Fox Arts Center at the Washington University in St. Louis and Tokyo University General Learning Center, among other projects, has been tapped to design the new Annenberg Public Policy Center building, which will be located on 36th Street between Locust Walk and Walnut Street. Groundbreaking is scheduled for May of 2006 and an opening is expected in the spring of 2008.
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Lisbeth Dennis
WHO SHE IS: Jewish Student Life Coordinator, Penn Hillel at Steinhardt Hall TIME AT PENN: Two months WHAT SHE DOES: Dennis helps students with Jewish programming, from Holocaust education to social events like Hannukah parties. A lot of what Hillel does is very student focused so students come to us and we assist them, says Dennis. My job is as busy as the students make it.
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Second-term blues?
What happens to presidents in their second term? In recent memory, plenty. Nixon faced Watergate. Reagan coped with Iran-Contra. Clinton had Monica. Even before that, FDR’s plan to pack the courts with judges friendly to his New Deal plan failed, while Eisenhower’s Chief of Staff Sherman Adams was forced to resign in 1958.
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Trivia at the pub
Quick—who wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, “Tales of the South Pacific?” What was the 1980s movie with the tagline, “If you can’t get a date, make one?” Who holds the baseball record for the highest lifetime batting average? If you love trivia but are tired of yelling at a TV screen, saddle up to the New Deck Tavern on Monday and Wednesday nights from 10 p.m. to midnight for Quizo (sometimes called Quizzo, with two z’s), the popular general trivia game played in the comfort of your neighborhood bar.
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Talking about youth and aging
Penn is known as a place where interdisciplinary study flourishes. Still, it’s rare to find a pediatrician sharing research with an art history professor or a nutritionist debating a point with a Wharton management expert. Audiences were treated to an afternoon of such chatter Nov. 4 when scholars from all 12 schools took part in a Faculty Senate sponsored symposium on “Youth & Aging.”
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Solving Penn's two-wheel parking problem
The recent SEPTA strike had many Penn staffers mulling over other ways to get to work. For those who dusted off the old Schwinn in the garage and took to the bicycle lanes, the experience may have proved an eye opener. After sharing the road with more-impatient-than-ever commuters, finding a safe place to stow their bikes on campus was hardly a walk in the park either.
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For The Record: Against the current
In May of 1935, 16 Penn coeds made the trek down to the Schuylkill River, piled into a shell and made University history: They were the first women ever to row for Penn. It was an exciting time for Penn women, as the University also had recently announced coeds—previously relegated to intramural sports only—would be permitted to compete against other area colleges in such sports as field hockey and basketball. But it was the women rowers who caught the attention of the Philadelphia Inquirer.