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“Acting out in a violent way is one way of demonstrating to the world that you exist, that you matter.”
Richard Gelles, Joanne and Raymond Welsh Chair of Child Welfare and Family, on recent school shootings (“CBS Morning News,” March 23)
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Thanks To Internet2's First Educational, International Video Conferences, Penn Students Gain 'High-Tech Pen Pals'
PHILADELPHIA Like so many other things in our society, the time-honored tradition of the faraway pen pal is about to be radically transformed by the Internet age.
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University Of Pennsylvania Police Department Receives National Accreditation
PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Pennsylvania Police Department (UPPD) received national accreditation through the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. (CALEA), at CALEA spring conference held in Greensboro, North Carolina this past weekend. The University of Pennsylvania Police Department becomes the first nationally accredited campus police agency within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Twenty eight other campus police agencies across the United States are also currently accredited by CALEA.
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Michael A. Fitts
For Law School Dean Michael A. Fitts, returning to the city of his birth and to Penn was a process of taking up the family business. His grandfather was dean of Wharton in the 1930s, and his father chaired the surgery department at the Medical School in the ’70s. As Fitts finishes up his first year in the job, he said he is loving every minute of it.
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Reporters examine endless postelection
The nation may have waited 36 days in the fall for results of the presidential election, but the crowd eager to hear two New York Times reporters reflect on postelection coverage waited not at all for the event, which began promptly at 4 p.m. Feb. 28 in Houston Hall. Times Metro Reporter Somini Sengupta told about life as low woman on the totem pole for the Times team in Florida, speaking to the 250 people packed into Bodek Lounge for the event sponsored by the Times and the Provost’s Spotlight Series.
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Tuskegee Airmen flew in the face of bigotry
For most white Americans, World War II was a battle against Nazism and fascism. But for pilot Eugene J. Richardson Jr., maintenance crew chief Eddie Moore and their comrades in the all-black 99th Fighter Squadron — the Tuskegee Airmen — it was also a bitter fight against racism. So it was perhaps no surprise that Richardson and Moore drew a racially mixed crowd — about 50 in all — of both civilians and fellow veterans when they brought their living tribute to the 99th and its legacy to campus Feb. 28.
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The envelope, please
We’re trying to get over our depression that “Ghost Dog” didn’t get an Oscar nomination for anything. Here’s what the campus crowd picked as winners. Jennifer Landsidle, College ’01 “I thought ‘Traffic’ was a very accurate portrayal of the drug world, and I’m obsessed with Benicio Del Toro as the supporting actor.”
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“We try to utilize every moment we have to the max, because everything is Rush! Go! Fast!”
The speed demons of emergency medical transport are in a funk. The PennSTAR 2 medevac flight crew has rushed to Lakewood, N.J., to transfer a critically ill patient to Presbyterian Medical Center, only to find that the attending physician insisted the man have dialysis first. So now the three crew members have to cool their heels for 2 1/2 hours, keeping them from responding to an accident in Lower Merion. Since I’m following them around on this day, I’m stuck there too.
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Nine undergrads selected for study overseas
Thouron awards Eight outstanding students from this side of the Atlantic will be studying in England, come the fall, as Thouron Fellows. The prestigious exchange program allows exceptional U.S. and British students to immerse themselves in the culture and the thinking of another country. The students were selected for qualities — academic excellence, leadership and personal abilities — that would lead them and their home countries to benefit from the exchange. This year’s winners from the University are:
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Cherry blossom time
No need to schlep all the way to Washington to catch the cherry trees in bloom when you can catch this rite of spring right here at the Morris Arboretum.