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Annenberg aims to clean up election campaigns
H.G. Wells once described elections as the feast of democracy. "Sadly, most Americans have come to think of them as junk food," said Annenberg School for Communication Dean and Professor of Communication Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Armed with a recently awarded $3.75 million grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Annenberg School will attempt to reverse the downward-spiraling trend of negative political campaigning by establishing new criteria for a more responsible campaign climate.
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Paul Steinke
When Paul Steinke was 12 years old, already a civic-minded preadolescent growing up in Northeast Philadelphia, he noticed a state representative had displayed a sign in front of his office that listed his district's neighborhoods. He forgot one. The 12-year-old Steinke shot off a letter to the Northeast Breeze and within two weeks, the state rep's sign was changed to include the left-out neighborhood, Burholme, and a letter of apology from the politician graced the Breeze's pages.
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Corporate America turns out for Wharton students' event
The sponsors were a who's who of corporate America, from financial operations like Goldman, Sachs & Company and Chase Manhattan to media corporations like Home Box Office and Time Inc. Sprint was there, as were ARCO, Nabisco and Proctor & Gamble, not to mention Chrysler Corporation, Hewlett Packard and Johnson & Johnson. That's only part of what made the conference and job fair run by Wharton's African-American MBA Association so important.
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PERFORMANCES / LECTURES / EVENTS January 14-28 EDITOR'S PICKS Professor of Chinese Literature Victor Mair's discovery of 3,000-year-old, blonde-haired, blue-eyed mummies in northern China is the subject of a documentary feature on PBS' "Nova" series Tuesday, Jan. 20. "China's Mysterious Mummies" airs at 8 p.m. and again at 11 p.m. on WHYY (Channel 12).
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Penn sells Gutman Farm
Through an agreement with the Heritage Conservancy, a non-profit membership organization dedicated to preserving natural and historic resources, and local neighbors, the University has sold the 211-acre Gutman Farm in Bucks County for $3.75 million. The resources will be used by the Graduate School of Fine Arts.
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"It's sort of like going to see a tightrope walker. The audience appreciates that you're taking a risk."
TOM MCMANUS Position: Senior Regional Director for the Office of Admissions Length of service: 3 years. Other stuff: If it's got an audience, he'll be on stage. At 25, Penn alum Tom McManus (C'94) so liked his work study job in the Office of Admissions that he found a way to stay at Penn after graduation, first working in Alumni Relations for a year, and then working in Admissions.
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Pa. Book Center finds new home
The University and the Pennsylvania Book Center have signed a letter of intent to relocate a beloved independent bookseller to the 3900 block of Walnut Street. The agreement will spell a happy ending for patrons who in forums across campus vociferously bemoaned the possible loss of the store to upcoming University development. The new store would be next to Eat at Joe's, the late-night diner scheduled to open on that block in February.
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OBITUARIES
Jay S. Seibert of Dental School Jay S. Seibert, 69, former associate dean for academic affairs and director of the graduate periodontology program, died Dec. 19 of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease) at his home in Devon. Seibert, whose distinguished teaching had earned him a Lindback Award, had been a professor and chairman of periodontology since 1973. He also received the Dental Alumni Society Award of Merit. He graduated from Penn Dental School in 1953 and studied periodontics at Baylor University, completing his training in 1960.
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Quoted recently
"There's no question that workers would be better off if they're allowed to sleep for 25 minutes." David F. Dinges, M.D., director of the Experimental Psychiatry Unit at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, in an article about corporate acceptance and encouragement of afternoon naps in the workplace. (Washington Post, Dec. 7)
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Getting published takes drive
College junior Michael Schein headed out on the highway for a cross-country road trip with his father a few years back and a novel idea was born -- well, not a novel, but an instruction manual, with a twist. "Teenage Roadhogs," published this year, is Schein's take on the dry read that is the Department of Motor Vehicles' how-to manual for new drivers. Plugged as "written by a teen for teens," the alpha books release offers Schein's common-sense tips, humorous anecdotes and sample driving test questions.