Sandy Smith

It may take another generation before real peace is achieved between Israel and Palestine, Hanan Ashrawi said. If some of the responses to her Irvine Auditorium speech Oct. 25 serve as any guide, her sad prediction may be correct.

Success, the old saw goes, has many fathers. Alan MacDiarmid has been careful to acknowledge all of them whenever he talks about his latest achievement.

To get a better understanding of the origins and causes of schizophrenia, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Bruce Turetsky and colleagues in the School of Medicine followed their noses and sniffed out some intriguing information.

Audrey Smith-Bey’s father didn’t want her to grow up to be a professional singer. Fortunately, she ignored her father’s advice.

A professor who teaches a class on ethics and technology sees the issues around Napster a little differently than his students do. But both say Napster deserves to survive.

David Goodhand (C’85) and Vincent Griski (W’85) left Penn with more than a good education. They left with each other, and with fond memories of the place where they met — a place where they both say they felt comfortable and supported as gay men. Now, 15 years out, the couple is returning that support in a big way.

Steve Garlinger never considered himself the academic type. “When I was in high school, I took a trade-prep course in carpentry,” he said. “I was into the practical part, but not the book part. I did just enough bookwork to pass my courses and get out of there.”

Steven Capsuto can probably identify every gay character who’s ever appeared on TV, going back to its infancy. He can also probably tell you about characters you may think are gay, but aren’t really.

  Ulrich takes a Xootr ride. That's his Narbeth home — a former church — at right.

Sylvia Plachy couldn’t have been happier. Her train from New York was delayed en route to Philadelphia, which meant that she arrived at the Arthur Ross Gallery too late to deliver her scheduled talk on her photography exhibit, “Repros.” “I don’t like to talk,” she said about public speaking. “I get very nervous.”