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What’s Jewish art? Scholars discuss
The Center for Advanced Jewish Studies fellows knew what they were getting into when they called their annual colloquium meeting to order. It seemed like everybody else knew, too. “This meeting will be illuminating, perhaps contentious, but of course we all know that’s a good thing,” said SAS Associate Dean Rebecca Bushnell in her opening remarks.
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Rush new V.P.
Maureen Rush, chief of police of the Penn Police Department for the past five years, was appointed the new vice president for public safety for the University May 8. Rush has been serving in that position in an interim capacity since last October.
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Youth violence touches us all
The following is excerpted from a brief delivered to the U.S. Congress by Graduate School of Education Professor Raymond P. Lorion. Lorion is chair of the Psychology in Education Division. In defining “violence”, I include among its victims individuals physically hurt by an act of violence; witnesses of such acts; family members, friends and other associates of the above two groups; and occupants of settings who are aware of and anxious about such acts.
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When housing the homeless turns out to be free for all
Dennis Culhane, associate professor of social welfare policy, knows social problems can be expensive to solve. That’s why many of them go unsolved. But he recently found one social problem that costs the same to fix as to ignore. The problem in question is homelessness among people with severe mental illness. And since the solution for such people entails not only finding them housing but providing mental health services as well, it’s not surprising that for years, most politicians believed it would be much cheaper just to do nothing.
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William Gipson
When students set up pickets in front of the Campus Copy Center last month after a fight between an employee and a Penn student, the Rev. William Gipson, the University chaplain, went over to sound out their opinions. This may sound like an unusual thing for a chaplain to involve himself in. But Gipson doesn’t agree. He sees his job as, in his words, “to care for the welfare of the entire University.”
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'Hi, Mom' Meets High-Tech At Graduation Ceremony For Penn's School Of Engineering And Applied Science
PHILADELPHIA Students graduating from the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science next week will have a much more advanced means of communicating their sentiments than the traditional masking tape atop mortarboards: As each one passes onto the stage to receive a diploma, the scan of a personalized bar code will bring onto a giant overhead screen a web site displaying the student name, hometown and personal comments.
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College to certify computer proficiency
English and history are in the School of Arts and Sciences. Computer and information science is in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. Starting in the Fall 2001 semester, the twain indeed shall meet in a new certificate in computing for students in the College — a unique effort to incorporate an applied digital technology program into the liberal-arts curriculum. “We do not know of any other elite private or public institution that has a program like this,” said Professor of Classical Studies Joseph Farrell, who headed the planning committee.
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Performers and audience unite
I’m new here. It’s the only lame excuse I have, as the father of a 12-year-old, for visiting the International Children’s Festival for the very first time this year. I never expected to be moved. While we stood in line for a show downstairs at the Annenberg Center, music started. It sounded as if an entire African village had descended upon Philadelphia and declared a holiday. It called to us. I believe I heard “Buy tickets to our show!”
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“I just picked myself up and said, ‘I have to do something, otherwise this is going to keep going on.’ And I hit her back.”
Freida Outlaw, assistant professor of nursing, recalling how she dealt with a childhood bully (The Washington Post, May 8)
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“Although it’s not the same as little 10-year-olds, I’m still doing a lot of the same thing.”
Like any good teacher, Alyse Edwards did some prep work before sitting down for our interview — specifically, reading past Staff Q&As. “I was reading some of the other Staff Q&As and I’m like, God, I did not do anything deserving of this treatment,” she said.