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The artist as Gothic gargoyle
Sometimes Cecilia Paredes is an octopus. Sometimes she’s a skunk. Last summer, at the 2005 Venice Biennale, she was a macaw. “I interpret animals, basically,” says Paredes, an internationally renowned artist who is also associate faculty master at Hamilton College House. “I put make-up on and transform myself into animals. It’s a kind of metamorphosis.”
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Staff Q&A: Camille Durocher
Even though we turned the spotlight on the College of General Studies two weeks ago for our Staff Q & A with Kristine Billmyer, this issue we’re visiting that office again to talk with Camille Durocher. That’s because she and her CGS coworkers worked tirelessly over the Labor Day weekend to help 100 displaced college students from Tulane, Xavier and University of New Orleans enroll at Penn for the fall semester.
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Recognizing Rodin Former Penn President Judith Rodin was honored at the American Psychological Association’s 113th annual meeting in August with an award for Outstanding Lifetime Contribution to Psychology. Rodin, who is now president of the Rockefeller Foundation, was recognized for her “vision and daring,” as well as her scholarly research, which, according to the APA brings “psychology to health, and health to psychology.” On stage
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Wild at heart
For those of us who have spent years guessing what David Lynch’s films and TV series mean, don’t count on him to unravel the mysteries of his work in his Sept. 28 talk: “It’s better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you’ll be too afraid to let things keep happening,” he’s said.
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'The old New Orleans is gone'
EXPERT COMMENT/Penn faculty on the city’s future. More than three weeks have passed since Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, setting in motion a series of catastrophic events that left many dead and many more homeless. As the city begins to grapple with the daunting task of rebuilding, we asked professors across Penn for comments on what the disaster revealed and where the city should go from here. “A smaller city”
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Ask Benny: Can I get cash back for working out?
Dear Benny, A friend told me I can get a discount on my membership at Pottruck through my Keystone Health Plan East insurance plan. Is this true, and how does it work? —Willing to Jog for Money Dear Fit and Thrifty, Your friend was right, you are indeed eligible for a discount—if you hit the gym often enough.
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Animation man
Q&A/Penn Design’s computer animation expert, and a recent recipient of a Pew Fellowship award, talks about the low-tech rewards of clay and how his students help him keep up with the latest software. One side of Joshua Mosley’s Powelton Village studio is filled with all the high-tech equipment you’d expect from someone who teaches computer animation. There’s the pair of super-sized flat screen monitors, the digital cameras, the sound equipment, the tangle of wires that let all the electronics talk to one another.
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Out & About: Saturdays at the stadium
It’s late September, summer is gone and football season is back. In football-crazy college towns like Ann Arbor, Knoxville, Columbus and State College, autumn’s return brings tailgaters as far as the eye can see on Saturday mornings and crowds of more than 100,000 packing stadiums later in the day. It’s a weekly spectacle of fandom that surpasses even what you’ll find at America’s NFL stadiums.
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The huge task ahead
New Orleans native and former mayor Marc Morial C’80 has been though a few hurricanes in his day. As a boy, he rode out Hurricane Betsy at his grandmother’s house in 1965 and as mayor, led the first evacuation of the city for Georges, which grazed New Orleans in 1998.
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For The Record: Toast-Throwing Tradition
Sticklers for detail will note that Penn’s toast-throwing tradition isn’t just about toast. Penn supporters throw all manner of baked goods—from bagels to muffins to pumpernickel—onto Franklin Field between the third and fourth quarter of every home football game. The cue to unleash the bread comes on the line, “Here’s a toast to dear old Penn” in a school fight song.