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Muller named Penn Health System CEO
Ralph W. Muller has been named chief executive officer of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, effective July 1. Muller, 57, served from 1986 to 2001 as president and chief executive officer of the University of Chicago Hospitals and Health System. While at Chicago, he brought a virtually bankrupt hospital back to fiscal health and oversaw a major construction campaign that culminated in a new, state-of-the-art ambulatory care center and a new children’s hospital, set to open in 2004.
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Show of the year
In our last issue, we told you about the year-long undergraduate curatorship seminar for Penn fine arts students (Current, April 17). The final exam goes on display Saturday, May 3.
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BOOKQUICK/New from the University Press
“Why Education Is Useless” Daniel Cottom 256 pages, $26.50 cloth Education is useless because it destroys our common sense, because it isolates us from the rest of humanity, because it hardens our hearts and swells our heads. Bookish persons have long been subjects of suspicion and contempt—nowhere more so, perhaps, than in the United States during the past 20 years.
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Campus Buzz
Operation Priceless Treasure: By virtue of its being one of the two institutions involved in the excavations that unearthed the Royal Tombs of Ur in the 1920s and 1930s, the University of Pennsylvania Museum is taking the lead along with its excavation partner, the British Museum, in tracking down the objects looted from the Iraqi National Museum of Antiquity after Saddam Hussein’s ouster.
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E-mail user finds mailbox full of junk
Illustration by Bo Brown Dear Benny,Every day, my e-mail inbox fills with hundreds of messages offering to sell me something, or eliminate my debt, or sign me up for some pyramid scheme. Is there anything I can do to stop these messages? — Return to Sender Dear Undeliverable, Oh, dear. Like many other e-mail users on campus, you have become a victim of spam.
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New dean for Annenberg
The Annenberg School has tapped one of the nation’s most respected scholars in American politics, public opinion research and mass media to be its next dean. Michael X. Delli Carpini (C/G’75), who currently serves as director of the Public Policy Program for the Pew Charitable Trusts, will succeed Kathleen Hall Jamieson in this leadership post.
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Sun worshippers
So finally the sun is starting to make an appearance. Don’t waste a beautiful day eating lunch at your desk. Read on for tips on where and how to catch the best rays on campus, just don’t forget to bring along your sunglasses and the SPF. MAUREEN COTTERILL Manager, Graduate School of Education “The roof of the GSE building is a great place. Just kidding, I try to avoid the sun at all times.”
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Program exposes Philly to the world
What can someone learn about the Middle East from a can of beans and a box of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes? Quite a bit, it turns out. “Food is a great leveler, people understand food,” said Sue Dyke, program coordinator of the University of Pennsylvania Museum’s International Classroom (IC) Program. Thus a can of beans—a breakfast staple in many Arab countries—shows how traditions endure into the modern era, while the pictures and legends on the Egyptian corn flakes box show how foreign influences are incorporated into other cultures.
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Gladwell: Learned ability matters too
When the Eagles’ scouts picked Syracuse’s Donovan McNabb in the 1999 NFL draft, did they prove that they were brilliant predictors of quarterback potential? “They might just as well have thrown a dart at a list of top college quarterbacks because statistics show that it is impossible to predict who will succeed as a professional,” said New Yorker staff writer Malcolm Gladwell.