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Andy Stern
The president of America’s largest and fastest-growing labor union was once a Wharton student, studying to get ahead in business. “After a year I realized it wasn’t the place for me,” laughs Andy Stern (C’72), international president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which represents more than 1.4 million service-industry employees across the United States.
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Kozol tells tales of inequality
In a speech rich in gentle anecdotes — like the one about Fred Rogers (of the TV neighborhood) getting a hug and kiss in the downtrodden South Bronx from a small boy who said, “Welcome to my neighborhood” — educational equality advocate Jonathan Kozol delivered a searing criticism of “American apartheid.” “People are set apart in squalid, isolated places so we can teach them squalidly. …Their only sin is to be born black or brown in a persistently undemocratic nation,” he said.
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When a college house is a home
I almost feel like Hemingway while sitting in the forest-green wicker chairs inside Café Prima. However, there are no bulls, I probably won’t get into a fight and Harrison College House is nowhere near Paris. Maybe I feel more like John Cusack. When I first heard that there was a café in a student residence hall, my first thought was of Pop-Tarts and single servings of scorching hot Ellis coffee. Then again, I went to a state school. Café Prima is something else. It has everything that Starbucks has at a fraction of the cost.
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Workshops for healthier living
You don’t have to be 50 to attend the programs offered by Penn Partners in Healthy Living. Partners provides regular health educational workshops and events, as well as newsletters and other materials, covering the health concerns of people 50 or older. If you have would like to receive the Partners mailings, call 1-800-789-PENN for a free membership.
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Center examines puzzling high death rate in childbirth
Back in the year 1900, pregnancy was risky business. And for some people, it still is. Even though maternal mortality rates have been plummeting in this country for the past century, serious problems remain — especially for African American women and women in developing countries.
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No turkeys here
“The World Cafe” has plenty of great new platters on the menu for November. And as befits the season of abundance, there are also a few choice leftovers: repeat broadcasts of visits by Teddy Thompson, Jess Klein and Erin McKeown. Thursday, Nov. 9 David welcomes Allison Moorer for an interview and music from her latest, “The Hardest Part” Friday, Nov. 10 Joan Osborne plays selections from her new album “Righteous Love” at Philadelphia’s Indre studios Monday, Nov. 13 An encore presentation of Teddy Thompson’s visit
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$8m for alternative cancer therapy
The Center for Research in Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in the Medical Center has received a five-year, $8 million grant from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the National Institutes of Health. Penn is one of only two institutions nationwide to receive this NIH grant; the other is the Johns Hopkins Center for Cancer Complementary Medicine. The grant will fund four research projects to test the safety and efficacy of hyperbaric oxygen therapy as a treatment for head, neck and lung tumors.
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A homecoming special
Penn will be celebrating more than the annual return of her far-flung alumni on Saturday, Nov. 11. The University Museum will have a day-long homecoming of its own as well.
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Nano bucks
A $10.5 million grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania aims to transform the Delaware Valley into a leading center for nanotechnology research and business. Nanotechnology manipulates atoms and molecules to create new and smaller products. The Nanotechnology Center will be co-directed by David E. Luzzi, associate professor of materials science and engineering at Penn’s Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter, and Kambiz Pourrezaei, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Drexel University.
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The man who smoked big tobacco
Jeffrey Wigand is still on a crusade to tell the truth about tobacco. And even after paying a heavy price for having done so, he said he would do it all again if he had to. Wigand, the former Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co. (B&W) executive whose story was told in the movie “The Insider,” brought his crusade to Penn Oct. 23 as the kickoff event for Academic Integrity Week. The University Honor Council, which organized Academic Integrity Week, brought Wigand to campus as an object lesson in the virtues inherent in following one’s own moral compass.