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Play it again, David
“World Cafe” host David Dye is on vacation the week of May 8, which gives the Cafe staff a chance to dust off some of their favorite recent shows for you to enjoy all over again. There’s also great new stuff from next door (Marah, May 5) and halfway around the world (Japan’s Ryuichi Sakamoto, May 17) to round out the next two weeks. Thursday, May 4 Singer/songwriter David Gray performs music from his latest album, “White Ladder”
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University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing Dean Norma Lang Steps Down; Assumes Endowed Professorship and International Role
PHILADELPHIA ---University of Pennsylvania President Judith Rodin today (May 1) announced that she had accepted with regret the decision of School of Nursing Dean Norma Lang to step down as dean, effective this summer. Professor Lang, the Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing, is a world-renowned nursing leader, educator and researcher. She has served as Dean since 1992 and will assume an endowed nursing professorship in the faculty.
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Hip-hop meets Ivy League
As a kid growing up in Flatbush, Brooklyn, Michael LeeYow (C’98), whose parents are from Trinidad, got the opportunity, through a scholarship program, to attend an elite prep school in Manhattan. Now he is returning the favor by providing the opportunity for Ivy Leaguers to visit his neighborhood, metaphorically speaking. Albums by rappers from his native Brooklyn, such as the Notorious B.I.G., MC Lyte and Rakim, grace the shelves of the center he helped co-found at Penn, Teaching Ourselves the Unique Culture of Hip-Hop (TOUCHH), now a year old.
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“When employers say they can’t find people, they mean they can’t find people at the wage they’re willing to pay.”
Janice Madden, Robert C. Daniels Term Professor of Urban Studies, Sociology and Real Estate, on the low rate of young adults finding employment in Philadelphia (The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 10)
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“I think you always have fond memories just being around the people.”
You know you’re someone special when they name a bus for you. And the Penn men’s and women’s crew teams did just that for their longtime bus driver Willie Glymph. From now on, Penn’s rowers will travel in style on the “Sir Willie Glymph” (“It just sounded good,” Transportation Services Manager Ron Ward said about the “Sir” tacked on to the name), named in his honor when he retired from the University after 39 years of service March 30.
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Learn the moves from the champs
Calling all junior basketballers: summer is just around the corner, and that means it’s time for the Quaker Summer Basketball Camps. Members of the Penn coaching staff and the Ivy League champion Quaker basketball team lead boys and girls ages 7 to 18 through the fundamentals of the game, offering a chance to have fun and learn from some of the best college players around.
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A primer for tomorrow’s working women
The world of work is filled with opportunities of all kinds. And on Thursday, April 27, girls ages 9 to 15 can get a taste of some of those opportunities at Penn’s annual Take Our Daughters to Work Day. The annual event, for staff and their young guests, features workshops and demonstrations on careers, workplace issues, nutrition, health and other useful things to know about work and life.
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Famous former inmate blasts prison system
In a speech bookended by standing ovations, Angela Davis, professor of the history of consciousness at University of California, Santa Cruz, addressed the topic “Race, Gender and Justice” in front of a packed Harrison Auditorium in the University Museum April 7.
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Six to receive honorary degrees
A jazz composer and musician and the former mayor of Philadelphia are among the six notables chosen to receive honorary degrees at Penn’s 244th Commencement May 22. In addition to poet and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, this year’s Commencement speaker (Current, April 6), the honorees are:
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Academic All-Ivies
For academic excellence paired with superior athleticism, the following studients were recognized by the Ivy League. Top row: Diana Caramanico (’01), basketball; Michael O’Connor (’00), soccer; Leah Bills (’00), field hockey; and Kenneth Goh (’02), swimming. Bottom row: Kellianne Toland (’01), soccer; Henry Chen (’01), soccer; Katie Patrick (’00), squash; and Cathy Holland (’01), swimming.