Sandy Smith

BY SANDY SMITH As each new class of Penn undergraduates arrives on campus, it is told about traditions that have been handed down through the generations. Some of these have been adapted to the times. Still others have—in some cases mercifully—been left behind. All of these have shaped student life at Penn. Class Fights

The School of Arts and Sciences’ long dream of establishing a cinema studies major has taken one giant step forward with the addition of Timothy Corrigan, professor of English, to the faculty this past fall.

A perfect 10: Your Buzz correspondent’s broad-brimmed Quaker hat’s off to the Penn football class of 2004, which completed one of the most successful collegiate careers in Penn football history with its 59-7 burial of traditional year-end rival Cornell Nov. 22. The win put an exclamation point on a perfect 10-0 season and a second straight Ivy League championship.

We have written stories in these pages about all kinds of resources and services Penn offers employees who are having trouble on the job. But even the most comprehensive problem resolution systems sometimes fail to resolve matters. When all else fails, there’s always the University Ombudsman.

Our outfit is 20. Who cares? — Kenneth Cole The would-be entrepreneurs in Wharton who filled the Jon M. Huntsman Hall auditorium Dec. 3 did. The overflow crowd was treated to an entertaining, humorous talk from one of the fashion industry’s most socially conscious designers.

Theodore Sorensen, one of President John F. Kennedy’s closest advisers, gave a campus audience an inside look at crisis management in a talk in Jon M. Huntsman Hall Nov. 13.The talk, “Presidents and Their Advisors During Crisis,” focused on one president—Kennedy—and his gravest crisis, the placement of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba in 1962.

Are a co-worker’s habits bugging you, and you can’t seem to get him to do something about them? Do you feel your supervisor has unrealistic expectations about your job? Need a referee to sort out office conflicts? The Workplace Issue Resolution Program can help.

In today’s highly partisan political atmosphere, there are still ways to get involved in the electoral process that everyone, regardless of political affiliation, can support. Dawn Maglicco has found one of them.

Mighty sweet for Jemmott: When the School of Nursing elevates someone to one of its eight endowed chairs, it’s not content to just issue an announcement and leave it at that. Especially if it’s someone as respected in her field as Loretta Sweet Jemmott who’s being elevated.

In this job, people offer all sorts of temptations to encourage you to report on their event. Free food. Private tours. Interviews with famous people. Still, it was a bit of a surprise to have Pam Kosty, the University of Pennsylvania Museum’s normally upstanding public information officer, call me with an offer of peyote.