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Scientists Identify Key Risk Factor for Canine Arthritis; Method May Eventually Give Humans Similar Warning
PHILADELPHIA - Drawing upon an international database of some 16,000 dogs, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have pinpointed what believed to be the first solid predictor, in any species, of future arthritis. The scientists have found that laxity in the hip joint - several millimetersworth of excessive play between the ball of the femur and the hip socket - correlates strongly with the advent of hip arthritis later in a dog life.
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Remembering the dream, living the vision
Instead of starting the semester, Penn’s observance of the Martin Luther King Day holiday comes at the start of its third week, meaning that the entire campus will be able to participate in all of the events planned to commemorate King’s life and his vision. And for the second year, everyone will have the day off to make participating easier.
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Campus transformer
At Penn, old grads marvel and current students revel in the campus’ park-like atmosphere, a dramatic change from the urban hustle and bustle of the 1950s and 1960s. They can thank Laurie Olin and his fellow landscape architecture faculty in the mid-1970s for that transformation. On the other hand, visitors avoid and critics dump on Independence Mall, another attempt to turn urban hustle and bustle into magnificent parkland—one that failed.
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Penn’s Way to heaven With so much charitable giving directed toward the Sept. 11 tragedies, your donation to Penn’s Way and the charities it supports is needed more than ever. Just $4 buys a one-day canoe field trip for a school child. And $50 provides a set of literacy brochures to help 50 people learn how to read. Your donation qualifies you to enter a drawing for some terrific raffle prizes as well as for the grand-prize drawing for an iBook laptop computer. And in our book, your donation also qualifies you as an angel.
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Be someone’s Santa: In addition to the Penn VIPS toy drive (see page 3), there are two other holiday gift drives currently under way that deserve your support. One is the annual “Operation Santa Claus” party for local senior citizens and neglected children. The organizers are looking for toys, games, clothing and other items to be distributed by Santa at a holiday party Dec. 19 at the Sheraton University City. For information about Operation Santa Claus, contact Yvonne Oronzio at 215-898-7234 or 215-898-4210.
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Ramos named chief of staff
Philadelphia native and Penn alumnus Pedro Ramos (C’87), 36, has been appointed vice president and chief of staff of the University. Ramos will start his position on the senior leadership team in January. Reporting directly to University President Judith Rodin, Ramos, who has served two terms as president of the Philadelphia Board of Education, will play an active role in senior-level decision making, serving as a senior policy advisor on short-term and long-range issues.
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Facts no cure for teen HIV
Associate Professor of Nursing Loretta Sweet Jemmott delivered a Provost’s Lecture Series talk Dec. 4 about reducing HIV risk among African American adolescents in urban communities. The following excerpt taken from her lecture discusses her approach to research and HIV prevention and the strategies needed to help individuals change their sexual behaviors.
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Help! It’s raining on me at my desk
It’s 7 p.m. on a Friday. You’re in your office wrapping up an important project when suddenly water rains down from the ceiling above. If you’re smart, you pick up the phone and dial 215-898-7208 or else you hop on your computer, assuming it’s out of the line of fire, and send an e-mail to workreq@pobox.upenn.edu. An agent answers your call, puts in a work ticket and dispatches the request to the appropriate building operations manager.
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Holiday home checks, escorts and more
’Tis the season for crime. So the Department of Public Safety has some suggestions to keep you safe. Home safety You’re going away for the holidays. But you can’t take your home in University City with you, and you’re worried it won’t be safe. Here’s the solution for you—police checks. Students, faculty and staff who live in the University City area may request special checks of their residences, to be conducted by the University of Pennsylvania Police Department.
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Clang, clang, clang...
…goes the Historic Holiday Trolley through the streets of University City. A vintage 1947 trolley is now running through Dec. 24 in a loop using 40th, Spruce, 42nd, Chester, 49th, Woodland, 42nd, Spruce, 38th and Filbert streets. Rides on the trolley, which operates from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday through Sunday, are free thanks to support from the University City District, SEPTA, Penn, the freshgrocer, Philadelphia on the West Side and the University of the Sciences.