Campus & Community

WHAT: Whether you’ve worked on campus for a while or are new to Penn, it’s easy to forget some of the basic amenities that are on and around campus. What follows is a brief list of some of these services.

First there was the Year of Art. Then came the Year of Water. Now, Penn begins the Year of Games: Body & Mind.

The massive Penn Park project has transformed the eastern edge of campus from a series of surface parking lots and a former industrial site into a landscape of connected green public spaces, sports fields and pedestrian bridges. Have some questions about this new 24-acre site? Well, we have answers.

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.

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.