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Mr. and Ms. Penn Body Building Competition
Students Compete for Mr. and Ms. Penn Titles Oct. 30, 2003PHILADELPHIA - University of Pennsylvania students often compete using their brains, but they'll be using their bodies to challenge each other when they meet Nov. 10 in the Mr. and Ms. Penn bodybuilding competition.
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30 years of sisterly study at Penn
This year marks the 30th anniversary of women’s studies at Penn. Not coincidentally, the campus Women’s Center is also celebrating its 30th year. Separately and together they are sponsoring a yearlong series of programs—lectures, seminars and conferences that highlight the enormous influence the women’s movement has had.
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Senior Fellow: Sarah Kagan
When Sarah Kagan came to Philadelphia from San Francisco in 1994, and was greeted by an ice storm that blanketed the city, she wondered fleetingly if she had made the right move.
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A composer’s voice emerges from the gulag
High atop the campus, with the bright lights of Center City twinkling in the distance, the rooftop lounge of Hamilton College House played host to a resurrection of art and history on Oct. 20. Oleg Timofeyev brought the hauntingly beautiful strumming of Russian seven-string guitar to a crowd of Penn faculty and students. Timofeyev, acclaimed as the foremost expert in the United States on the traditional Russian instrument, performed his series entitled “Guitar in the Gulag,” comprised of music by the late composer Matvei Stepanovich Pavlov (1888-1963).
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BOOKQUICK/New from the University Press
From robber barons to titanic CEOs, from the labor unrest of the 1880s to the mass layoffs of the 1990s, two American Gilded Ages—one in the late 1800s, another in the final years of the 20th century—mirror each other in their laissez-faire excess and rampant social crises. Both eras ignited the civic passions of investigative writers who drafted diagnostic blueprints for urgently needed change.
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EDITOR’S PICK: Strung Out
The yarn paintings of the Huichol Indians of northwest Mexico are a relatively new art form that has achieved worldwide popularity in recent years. The University of Pennsylvania Museum’s new exhibit, “Mythic Visions: Yarn Paintings of a Huichol Shaman,” connects this art form to the most ancient legends and practices of the Huichol culture.
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Worried reader is spooked by dead birds
Illustration by Bo Brown
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The write stuff
The College of General Studies’ annual Writers Conference at Penn brings some of the country’s most talented writers to campus for a day-long event Nov. 8. The conference explores the challenges that face anyone engaged or interested in writing for a living and gives writers opportunities to hone their skills and make professional connections. This year’s keynote speaker is Jennifer Egan, author of “Look at Me” and “The Invisible Circus.” The fee for the ninth annual Writers Conference is $165.
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Fels Institute, WPHT Radio Partner in Poll Watching Project, Election Coverage of Philadelphia Mayor's Race
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania's Fels Institute of Government has organized a new poll watching project to track election-day voter turnout in dozens of key precincts in Philadelphia. The captured data will be announced and analyzed on WPHT Radio, providing the first-ever analysis of the Philadelphia mayor's race in real time.