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Van Pelt's first floor ready for business
Speed. Comfort. Light. That's what has emerged so far from Van Pelt Library's first floor demolition. The brand new reference and study facilities add 44 desktop work stations and 56 laptop-accessible stations that mean high-speed access not only to Penn's holdings but to the catalogs of major research libraries around the world. For comfort, the new area seats 120 in spaces that include well-lit lounges and quiet study areas. The 30-foot cherrywood service desk custom-made by furniture designer Thomas Moser is giving, well, service.
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South African justice returns to learn from youths
"The wisdom of an adult can come from a child." Seventeen-year-old University City High School senior Victoria Arter furiously scribbled the heartfelt platitude into the notebook carefully poised on her lap, as South African Justice Yvonne Mokgoro addressed the room of wide-eyed, high school students Mokgoro, South Africa's first black female jurist who sits on the nation's Constitutional Court, spent time during a recent three-day stay in Philadelphia speaking with Penn faculty and law students.
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PENN Friends offers 'round-the-clock support to staff
You're a supervisor with a clinically depressed staff member. Not only do you have to decide how best to interact with the employee, but the rest of your staff needs education about appropriate responses to such behavior. Or, you've noticed your casual drinking has taken a turn toward excess and your job could be on the line if you continue the substance abuse. Maybe something great just happened, like your marriage or a job promotion, but it means drastic changes in the way you run your life.
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What we're reading and whether we like it
Most students questioned at the close of last semester either laughed uproariously at the thought of extracurricular reading during finals or ran hurriedly down Locust Walk emitting snarls and non-sequiturs at our man on the street. For those who did take enough study breaks last month to glance at something other than a textbook, they struggled to recall the names of the books, never mind names of the authors (we added them).
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More lessons in patient care
NBC news correspondent and author Betty Rollin spoke about nursing from the patient's point of view, relating her experiences as a breast cancer patient and as a caregiver to her dying mother, at the School of Nursing graduation ceremony Dec. 19.
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Roadside Fossil Find Provides Key to the Development of Limbs in Animals
PHILADELPHIA --- Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia have discovered dramatic new evidence of how arms and legs developed from the fins of ancient fish. The evidence was discovered in a rock found in a pile of boulders lying along a busy highway in north-central Pennsylvania.The scientists reported their findings in the Jan. 8 issue of Nature.
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Alum's Moving Documentary Played at IH
An award-winning film at International House caught our eye. Annenberg School of Communication alumna Nilita Vachani documents the life of a domestic worker who struggles to support her own children in Sri Lanka by taking care of someone else's child in Greece. First prize winner at the Festival dei Popoli in Florence, an important documentary film festival, "When Mother Comes Home for Christmas" was screened at numerous international festivals before arriving at Annenberg Feb. 19.
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On the Shelf
As Penn faculty publish books, an occasional column appears on these pages to inform the University community of new releases. Modernism as Déja Vu All Over Again A collection of essays by Jean-Michel RabatŽ, Marjorie G. Ernest Term Professor of English, questions whether modernism and postmodernism can be separated from the past, from the future and from each other.
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Faculty Creak Past Students
The first student-faculty basketball game, the Provost's "Stanley" Cup (named after Provost Stanley Chodorow), offered 16 students a chance that every college kid wants--to go up against the faculty and show them who's boss. And that is exactly what they were doing in the first half of the game. College senior Jugdeep Bal left his teammates and his competitors frozen in awe as he snagged a rebound (top).
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New Eatery Sates Midnight Snack Attacks
Tonight's grand opening of a new campus nightspot is six months ahead of schedule, with hoopla and food, all because--you asked for it. When students responded to a Dining Services survey last spring, they expressed a strong desire for a late-night dining spot in the Quad. Dining Services began to develop plans for a new facility, targeting the fall of 1997 for the opening.