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A Rodin Decade Timeline: Highlights from Judith Rodin's 10-year tenure as Penn's President
1994 Judith Rodin assumes office as first woman to head an Ivy League university Walter Annenberg gives $120 million to Penn, the largest single gift ever from an individual 1995 Rodin announces Agenda for Excellence, a comprehensive five-year strategic plan to strengthen the University on all fronts
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SPECIAL REPORT/Judith Rodin: A decade of leadership
When Judith Rodin steps down next month after 10 years as Penn’s president, she will leave behind an enduring legacy of growth and improvement. The timeline highlights landmarks from Dr. Rodin’s presidency, but this is just a sampling. Some of her achievements are strikingly tangible; everywhere on campus we see bricks-and-mortar testaments to her leadership and vision.
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Do stiffer rules deter criminals?
Rewriting criminal laws as a means of deterring criminals may be a waste of time. That’s according to Colin S. Diver Distinguished Professor of Law Paul Robinson, who shares his findings in the forthcoming Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. “ The assumption,” said Robinson, who co-authored “Does Criminal Law Deter?” with Princeton psychology professor John Darley, “is that if they pass or change a law it will have some influence in the real world.” But for that to happen, he says, three conditions have to be met.
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Appointments
Doug Lynch has been named the new vice dean for graduate admissions and executive education in the Graduate School of Education. In this role, Lynch—who came to Penn April 1—oversees admissions policies for GSE’s traditional and non-traditional programs. Lynch will also assist faculty in the development of executive model and continuing education programs.
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Achtung Penn!
On May 17, students will receive an official send-off from Penn and have a chance to hear an address from Bono, the man with one of the most recognizable—and perhaps influential—voices of this generation. Not only has he achieved worldwide success as lead singer and songwriter for the rock group, U2, Bono has put his fame to good use by co-founding DATA (Debt AIDS Trade Africa), an organization through which he works to raise awareness and action in wealthy countries to fight against poverty and AIDS in Africa. For his efforts, Bono (that’s Bono, Esq.
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“Nothing” to see at ICA's new exhibit
Institute of Contemporary Art Senior Curator Ingrid Schaffner once put on a show in New York about people who want everything—those who collect material possessions to try to fill their lives. Now, she’s launched a show about nothing. With the help of Associate Curator Bennett Simpson and Whitney-Lauder Curator Tanya Leighton, Schaffner and the ICA are leading “The Big Nothing,” a citywide celebration of, well, nothing, that opened this month and runs through August 1.
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Excerpts from a decade of discourse on the issues that mattered.
Included in this special report: Judith Rodin: Her decade at Penn Excerpts from a decade of discourse on the issues that mattered.
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Piping up for the Curtis Organ
The Curtis Organ is not your church’s organ. . It’s a grand, lush instrument with 161 sets of pipes—10,731 pipes in all—that can mimic the swells of an orchestra, the blare of loud trumpets and yes, even the strains of a church organ.
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Staff Q&A: Alison McGhie
STAFF Q & A/Accomodating the honorary degree recipients is a breeze, says Alison McGhie. After talking with Alison McGhie C’91,GEd’92, the woman who shepherds Penn’s honorary degree recipients through Commencement, we couldn’t help but think: Other event coordinators would probably kill for a job like this. Tales of prima donnas with outlandish demands? She had none. Snafus that arose at the last minute? None of those either—at least not yet; she has only been handling logistics for the Commencement honorees for three years now.
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Sunday, May 16 University-wide events
BACCALAUREATE CEREMONY: Speaker: Dr. Jaroslav Pelikan, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History at Yale. 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. for students whose last names begin with A-K, 3 to 4 p.m. for students whose last names begin with L-Z, in Irvine Auditorium, 34th and Spruce streets. School Ceremonies WHARTON UNDERGRADUATE/EVENING: Speaker: Amal Devani, C’04, W’04, Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business. 9 a.m. in Franklin Field.