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Five first steps
The University committee charged with reviewing Penn’s research on human subjects has identified five things Penn can do right now to improve its methods, including requiring researchers to disclose conflicts of interest and hiring outside monitors for research projects whose funding does not provide for them.
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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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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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Nice catch, Doug
Look what Phillies centerfielder Doug Glanville (EAS’93) found when he went rummaging through the University of Pennsylvania Museum’s vast storerooms: a Teotihuacan jadelite mask from Central Mexico, dating back to the second century A.D.
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Asians emerge
An award-winning Chinese-American journalist and former executive editor of Ms. magazine spoke April 6 at the Veranda to a group of about 85 about Asians’ place in the American landscape. Helen Zia, author of the recent “Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People,” Zia said she wrote the book because the Asian-American community, the fastest-growing segment of the United States population, had reached a “critical mass.”
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Current gets gold medals
The judges liked our concept— that we had expected. But we hadn’t expected to beat the magazine writers at their own game. Along with a Gold Medal for Internal Audience Periodicals in this year’s CASE Circle of Excellence Awards, Pennsylvania Current won a Gold Medal for Periodical Staff Writing, a category dominated by glossy magazines such as co-winner Tulanian of Tulane University. “We were thrilled that our writing outshined the 4,000-word stories in the more heavily financed magazines,” said Editor Libby Rosof.
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And now, managed learning!
Now that welfare has had to change and health care has had to change, it’s higher education’s turn. When I asked a faculty colleague at a sister institution how we could benefit from their experiences, I received the following enthusiastic memo: “Our Restructuring Committee agreed early in its deliberations that in order for higher education to survive, it needed major reform. So after careful consideration, we have concluded that it is now time for the ‘managed care’ revolution to be applied to education.
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How the brain divides its labors
Using variously postal workers, computer simulations and photos of “Baywatch” babes, psychology Professor Martha Farah has studied why the brain is organized the way it is.
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Cross the heartland
Among the performers featured on “The World Cafe” these next two weeks are some Midwestern boys who’ve hit the big time: jazz guitarist Pat Metheny, Lee’s Summit, Mo.’s favorite son, and alt-rockers the Jayhawks from the next state west. But the rest of the country’s well-represented too. Thursday, April 20 Folk/jazz legend in the making Terry Callier drops by the World Cafe studios