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Profs dig a freshman’s talk on dinosaurs
The heavy hitters in Penn’s earth and environmental science department — including the heaviest hitter of all, Professor and Chairman Bob Giegengack — turned out March 23 to hear a freshman talk about dinosaurs over a catered lunch.
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Looking to buy? Come to the fair
If you’re a faculty or staff member who’s in the market to buy a new home — even if it’s not in University City — the Office of Community Housing’s annual Home Buyers Housing Fair is for you.
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Spring Break highlights
A beach does not necessarily a spring break make. So we asked some students, What made their spring break great? Alas, one of the answers was unprintable. Wasn’t he worried his mother would read this publication? Well we were, even if he wasn’t. So we blue-penciled the hot details. After all, this is not “Temptation Island.” But not everybody went someplace hot, hot, hot. Some headed for the cold, cold, cold and some just headed for home, where they still found some unexpected highlights that made their spring breaks special.
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Student discovers his Latino soul
Ramon Marmolejos (C/W’01) emigrated from the Dominican Republic to the multicultural mecca of New York City with his parents when he was five. But he didn’t get plugged into Dominican and Latino culture until he came to Penn. This may sound strange, but he has an explanation. “Most of the Dominicans in New York live in Washington Heights” in upper Manhattan, he said. “I lived most of my life in Queens and went to a semi-private day school. “So when I got here, I had a thirst for learning about Latino culture.”
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"The Trotula: A Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine"
Edited and translated by Monica H. Green 328 pages, nine black-and-white illustrations, $55.00 cloth
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New initiatives help grad students
When graduate student Kyle Farley came to Penn, he saw a university with an advantage over many of its Ivy peers: All the graduate and professional schools are on the same campus. But Farley, now in his fourth year as a Ph.D. student in U.S. history, also saw a down side. “Most people only knew people in their own graduate school,” he said. So Farley, now the chair of the Graduate and Professional Students Assembly (GAPSA), and Graduate Student Associations Council (GSAC) President Eric Eisenstein came up with a solution and wrote a proposal for a graduate student center.
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McCain to speak
U.S. Sen. John S. McCain, whose recent race for the Republican presidential nomination inspired admiration across party lines, but not enough votes, will deliver the Commencement address at the 245th Commencement ceremony May 21. McCain, 64, has brought campaign finance reform to the top of the legislative agenda with the McCain-Feingold bill. He gained a reputation as a war hero after spending more than five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam’s infamous “Hanoi Hilton.”
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Aching backs, living wills… Ouch. Find out how to manage
Some of the issues of aging can be less painful with help from talks from Penn Partners in Healthy Living. Here’s some of what they have to offer on campus: What’s New in Medicare? A representative of KEPRO, the agency that protects the rights of people on Medicare, will review new procedures and benefits and how Medicare recipients can choose the best HMO or other policy for them and prevent making mistakes about their coverage. Speaker Dale B. Fry, a KEPRO marketing specialist, will answer questions and speak to participants individually after the lecture.
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Police earn accreditation
The Penn Police Department received national accreditation March 24, making it the first university police department in the state of Pennsylvania to achieve this distinction, said Chief of Police Maureen Rush. The accreditation, awarded by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, caps a four-year process which required on-site visits, interviews and written documentation. The CALEA assessors analyzed all aspects of the UPPD’s policy and procedures, management, operations and support services, Rush said.
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Speech patterns trigger housing discrimination
If you are black and looking for a place to rent, you may be out of luck the moment you leave a message on the leasing agent’s telephone. That’s what a team of undergraduates discovered when they served as testers for a research project headed by Dorothy S. Thomas Professor of Sociology Douglas Massey and postdoctoral fellow Garvey Lundy. The researchers discovered significant race, class and gender discrimination in the Philadelphia housing market based solely on the speech patterns of the would-be renters.