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Campus remembrances of conflicts past

Illustration by Bo Brown Dear Benny, I was walking past the west wing of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center the other day and noticed there is a plaque dedicated to the memory of the Penn alumni who perished on 9/11. Are there other memorials on campus to Penn alumni, faculty or staff who died in other conflicts? — Lest We Forget

Navigating campus easier with new signs

Finding your way around Penn is a bit easier this semester, thanks to a new project from the Division of Facilities and Real Estate Services. Crews have been replacing, updating, and adding to the existing signage that marks University buildings and gives directions throughout the campus. The plan to update campus signs, which have noåt been revised since the 1970s, was initiated by the University to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Not only will signs have larger letters, but they will make Penn’s campus more aesthetically pleasing and accessible.

Michael Carman

PennFit wants to pump you up

Get your blood pumping with the latest round of PennFit events, a wellness program offered to Penn students, faculty and staff. All classes are free of charge to Pottruck Center members. Reservations may be made through Jennifer Hunt, assistant director of personal training and athletics, at jmhunt@pobox.upenn.edu.

What Brown did for them

News briefs

Line of defense Penn’s School of Medicine recently joined the Middle Atlantic Regional Center of Excellence (RCE) for Biodefense and Emerging Diseases, a research consortium dedicated to biodefense research.

Search for Sabloff successor under way

Jeremy A. Sabloff C’64, Williams Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, has announced that he will be stepping down from the directorship on June 30, 2004. Sabloff will have completed 10 years of service as head of one of the world’s great archaeology and anthropology museums. Deputy Provost and Andrea Mitchell Professor of English Peter Conn chairs the search committee. Sabloff, who discovered archaeology as an undergraduate at Penn and has a Ph.D. from Harvard, is an internationally recognized expert on the ancient Maya.

Body language

Let’s be frank here: We’re biased. We’ve been fans of Candace diCarlo, whose photos have graced the overwhelming majority of our front pages since the Current launched five years ago, for quite some time.

Veteran journalist to run Annenberg voter survey

The Annenberg Public Policy Center is poised to begin their second National Annenberg Election Survey (NAES), a rolling-cross sectional survey of the American electorate, on November 1. In the groundbreaking 2000 NAES, the most comprehensive academic survey to date on American political attitudes and behavior, researchers conducted more than 100,000 interviews, asking Americans about their political knowledge, media use and opinions about the candidates and issues.

The policy wonk as editorialist

Mark Alan Hughes Gr’86 has an opinion about most things that happen in Philadelphia. As a distinguished senior fellow at Penn’s Robert A. Fox Leadership Program and professor of policy development and urban issues at the Fels Center of Government, Hughes is able to back up his opinion with scholarly expertise. As a weekly op-ed columnist at the Philadelphia Daily News, Hughes is able to take his ideas about the practical application of theories and offer concrete solutions—and criticisms—on the page.