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Pedro Ramos
It almost reads like something out of Horatio Alger. Kid from a poor but proud family applies himself, does well in school and lands in the Ivy League. From there, the story usually goes like this: Graduates from college, becomes a successful lawyer, makes mucho bucks, moves to a country manse (or at least a big house in the ’burbs), hangs out with the elite. This is where Pedro Ramos (C’87) parts company. Not that he has not done well for himself. But he still lives in the community where he grew up — the area around Fifth and Girard on the edge of Northern Liberties.
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HIV prevention goes to the barrio
Building on the strengths of Latino culture, a new project at the School of Nursing aims to teach Latino youth how to protect themselves from diseases, including HIV, that have a high incidence in the Latino population. Developed by Latinos, the project targets Latino youth in North Philadelphia. After two successful pilot tests, the Latino Youth Health Promotion Project is set to start officially in May.
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New center can help
Final exams are just a couple of weeks away and that familiar knot is starting to form in your stomach. Unfortunately, there may be little you can do about that sort of anxiety as test time rolls around. But if your symptoms are extreme, if you have obsessive thoughts of doom, if you can’t think or interact because of your fear, you might want to pay a visit to the School of Medicine’s Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety (CTSA), which opened last July.
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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: