Campus & Community

Dear Benny: I’ve been to a couple of music and dance performances at The Rotunda, that beautiful old building at 40th and Walnut, which I thought was a community center. Somebody told me it is actually owned and operated by Penn. Is this true? —Jazzed by Art Dear Jazzed:

  The 24 acres of Penn Park will bring much needed green space to the University’s athletic teams—intercollegiate, as well as intramurals and club sports.

It’s a stunning reimagination of a former industrial site, an increase of the green space on campus by 20 percent and a way to connect Center City with West Philadelphia. It’s Penn Park.

Today, the sights and sounds coming from Penn Park are of people enjoying the outdoors, but long before it was a recreational area, the location was bustling with workers and the whirring, clanging and pounding of machinery.

When members of the University and Philadelphia communities gathered nearly two years ago to formally kick off the construction phase of the Penn Park project, they did so standing in a barren, dusty landscape.

Susan Brown-Miller, author of “Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape,” one of the most important books of the 20th Century, according to the New York Public Library, will deliver a campus talk on Thursday, Nov. 3. Brown-Miller will be the guest at this year’s annual lecture, sponsored by the Evelyn Jacobs Ortner Center for Family Violence at the School of Social Policy and Practice.

Curious about some of the resources and services available at Penn? Check out the Employee Resource Fair on Oct. 11 from noon to 2 p.m. in Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall, 3417 Spruce St.

PHILADELPHIA – The University of Pennsylvania will hold a grand opening celebration for Penn Park, the centerpiece of the University’s Penn C