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A challenge to old sex rules on campus
For the better part of a decade, a group of subversives within the University has been spreading its radical agenda to an unsuspecting audience. Along the way, it did raise a few minor ruckuses, but by and large it has been quietly successful, converting others here and at other campuses to the cause. The radical notion these subversives have been promoting is that sex should be a matter of mutual consent and respect. And on April 24, they and their supporters met in the Fox Student Art Gallery to celebrate the publication of their latest manifesto.
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Do these numbers add up?
Critics of affirmative action now tout plans that guarantee college admission to a percentage of a state’s high school graduates. Last month, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights issued a report urging caution in using such plans. We spoke with Commission Chairperson Mary Frances Berry about why the commission decided to enter the fray. Here’s what she said:
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Tension breakers
It’s crunch time, and all over campus, students are feeling the pressure of final exams. Well, not all of them — a few of the people we asked during finals week last fall seemed unusually stress-free. As for everyone else, the coping strategies run the gamut from healthy (working out) to heavy (eating lots of cookie dough). But as another of our students noted, who said you have to stay sane during finals? Melanie Signorile, College ’02 “I eat a lot of cookie dough. I haven’t been doing a very good job at staying sane.”
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Liberal arts entrepreneur goes dot-com crazy
He’s not an MBA student. He’s not even an undergraduate Whartonite. In fact, he describes himself as a “non-Whartonite” — a “staunch supporter of the liberal arts.” Yet he founded an Internet marketing strategy company anyway.
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“The Plants of Pennsylvania: An Illustrated Manual”
Ann Fowler Rhoads and Timothy A. Block, illustrations by Anna Anisko 1,040 pages, 2,645 line drawings, 4 maps, $65.00 Spring is here and so is “The Plants of Pennsylvania,” a major new reference book compiled, written and illustrated by key staff members of the University’s own Morris Arboretum, the official arboretum of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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How women got the vote — elsewhere
Women’s suffrage, like socialism, should be considered a political subject in its own right, according to feminist Ellen DuBois. Discussing female suffragist efforts between the First and Second World Wars, DuBois told a women’s studies seminar at Penn in April that historians often view the fight for women’s voting rights — a fight that has been won country-by-country — through the lens of British and American politics. But that lens blinds them to a rich feminist heritage in countries such as France, India, Japan, Sri Lanka, Iran and even Afghanistan, she said.
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Hope blooms for Taiwan
For those who are anxious about China-Taiwan relations in the wake of Chen Shui-ban’s victory in Taiwan’s recent presidential elections, James Lilley had one piece of advice: Calm down. Lilley, who served as U.S. ambassador to China from 1989 to 1991 and is now a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, gave this advice during an April 17 lecture in which he gave his views about the future of U.S.-China and China-Taiwan relations.
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Get ready for summer camp
Now is the time to get those budding athletes ready for the future in one of Penn’s summer sports camps. In addition to the Quaker Basketball Camp (Current, April 20), day camps will be offered in the following sports: FENCING: An intermediate level camp for 14- to 17-year-olds. Two one-week sessions beginning July 23. Info: Dave Michanik, 215-898-6116.
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Let the fun times begin
Pity the poor grownups. They have to wait three more weeks before their summer fun begins. The kids, on the other hand, get to start theirs right now. That’s because the 16th annual Philadelphia International Children’s Festival is now under way at the Annenberg Center. The festival, the oldest and largest of its kind in the United States, showcases children’s theater, music and dance from all around the world at family-friendly prices.
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Hearing about AIDS through the grapevine
In Kenya and Malawi, the prevalence of HIV in the adult population is often at 30 percent and higher, usually fairly equally distributed between men and women. Sociology Professor Susan Watkins has traveled to small villages in these countries to research the effects of gossip on the dissemination of information about AIDS. “We’re trying to figure out what people are doing to protect themselves and how they’re sorting that out in these conversations with other people,” Watkins said.