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Ask Benny: A potpourri of Franklin Field facts
Dear Benny,Does Franklin Field host any events besides football games and the Penn Relays? What’s the average attendance at Franklin Field events? And why was the Army-Navy game played there? — Curious Researcher Dear Curious, Whew! Your grab bag of questions took Benny to several sources, starting with Dave Johnson, the Penn Relays director, and a good source for Franklin Field history .
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Student Spotlight: The twisty passages of interactive fiction
Nick Montfort wants you to know about a world of fiction and computers intricately balanced to create an experience as old as literature and as new as the modern age. In his book, “Twisty Little Passages” (MIT, 2003), Montfort, a Ph.D. student in computer and information science, explores this esoteric realm known to its aficionados as interactive fiction.
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BOOKQUICK/“Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution”
The story of black professional baseball is one of entrepreneurs, fans, players and opportunities. As Neil Lanctot shows us in “Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution,” the history of this once-major enterprise provides a remarkable window into America’s past. Baseball functioned as a critical component in the separate economy catering to black consumers in the urban centers of the North and South.
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Southern Man
Steven Hahn did not set out to become a historian. “I was always sort of interested in it, and was good at it, but I wasn’t a history buff at all,” said Penn’s Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of History. “When I went to college, initially I wanted to be an astronautical engineer. I found out before I even got to college that this was probably not the best choice for me.”
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Campus Buzz
A big apple for the teacher: Perhaps the greatest testament to Dennis DeTurck’s reputation as a teacher is the presence of so many of his present and former students at his recent lecture on math education (see “Education”). They made up about one-third of the roughly 75 people who filled Houston Hall’s Ben Franklin Room.
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Service for those who serve
To show how much they appreciate the work of their volunteers, senior staff at the Penn Museum served them at a lunch in their honor April 12 in the Upper Egyptian Gallery. Here, Associate Director of Programs Gillian Wakely serves iced tea to Sam Nash, a volunteer in the Museum Applied Science Center for Archaeology who put in 739 hours of volunteer service in 2003.
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McPherson on Americans’ identities
LITERARY LIFE/A distinguished author discusses a constantly shifting topic. According to novelist and essayist James Alan McPherson, most Americans are con artists, adopting multiple identities as their lives and desires change. The nature of those identities was a subject the Pulitzer Prize-winning author returned to often during his two-day visit to Penn April 19 and 20 as the last Kelly Writers House Fellow of the academic year.
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Out & About: Culture space bridges the gap
It’s not every venue that will take a chance on a local hip-hop act with no national following, an experimental ambient music series and a forum from the African People’s Solidarity Committee. Of course, the Rotunda is hardly every venue.
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Staff Q&A: Tom Waldman
STAFF Q & A/Tom Waldman wears two hats—medieval scholar and fundraiser. Tom Waldman’s first job at the University was as bibliographer of rare books and manuscripts, a logical choice for someone who had studied medieval history at Columbia and Oxford. It wasn’t until a few years later that he discovered his skill at fundraising.
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Six Guggenheim fellowships for SAS faculty
Six professors in the School of Arts and Sciences have received the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, the largest number of recipients from the school since 1995. Every year since 1925, the John Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has recognized distinguished scholarly achievement and exceptional promise for the future by giving aid to scholars, artists and writers pursuing research in any field or creation in any area of the arts except the performing arts.