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" Campaign Report Card, p. 2 " Speaking Out: Glasnost Within, p. 2 " School Anniversaries: Med, GSFA, p. 3 " HONORS &...., pp. 4-5 " Tour of the Ivy Stones, pp. 6-7 " Graduating into History, p. 8 " Penn 'Firsts' and Other Facts, p. 9 " Of Record: Academic Calendar, p. 10 " CrimeStats, Update, p. 11 " Highlights of Peak Week, p. 12 Pullout: Social Work at 80
Tuesday, May 15, 1990 Published by the University ofPennsylvania Volume 36 Number 35
Fireworks Real and Symbolic for Penn's 250th
Penn 250th's Peak Week begins with fireworks on the river and a concert at Boat House Row Wednesday night.Starting Thursday, the fireworks are verbal as three world leaders open each days plenary (top row: Ronald Reagan, Oscar Arias Sanchez, Rita Klimova), and Ted Koppel (center) moderates three debates another featuring 18 outspoken world figures and scholars.For the explosive finale Saturday night, Bill Cosby rides herd on the PennULTIMATE stage show featuring country stars Dolly Partort and Kenny Rogers. See details, page 12, or in the 250th Program Booklet and Dialogues booklet at Houston Hall. Background Photo: The Philadelphia Inquirer/Michael Bryant
Mid-Term Exam in the Billion-Dollar Campaign for Penn
The first six to eight months ofa campaign is a crucial test period. A + Some $14 million has been given and pledged toward a$35 million include an endowed sluggish start is cause for concern, perhaps even alarm. A strong start goal for Minority Permanence. Recent gifts validates the operating assumptions and means that all signals remain fellowship and a term chair. "go." + The number of identified major gifts prospects has grown from By all key measures, The Campaign for Penn passed its first critical 4,000 to 10,000 sincethenucleus fund phase: Thetarget of 14,000, test with flying colors (red and blue, of course). The Campaign was deemed essential for a $i billion drive, will be reached ahead of launched last October following a "nucleus fund" phase during which a deadline (December 1991). number of Trustees and other close friends made stretch gifts to build + Not only have alumni made stretch commitments, but participation momentum. The $1 billion goal is the second largest ever in higher at all levels is growing. Lastyear Penn had more alumni donors- education fundraising. over 75,000-than any other university. A new record is in sight Vital indicators of the Campaign's successful start include... for this year which ends June 30. + The Campaign total stands at more than $452 million, which is Thus, in terms ofbig gifts such as professorships, breadthof support, and roughly three months ahead of schedule. Over $1 10 million in giving to priorities, the Campaign is on the fast track. There is no cause gifts and pledges has been secured since the October 13 Kick-off. for complacency, however. of the + The Campaign total includes 78 endowed professorships (minimum In the year ahead more alumni volunteers and members of$1.25 million each). No other university campaign has reached University community will be engaged directly in the Campaign effort. this level. Penn's goal is 150 professorships. Penn's outreach to all of its alumni, and to corporations and foundations + Over $44 million has been committed to student financial aid as well, must be expanded in order to maintain the momentum. (undergraduate and graduate/professional), a pace 20% ahead of -Rick Nahm, Vice Presidentfor projections. Development and University Relations
Speaking Out In Search of Glasnost Within faculty members in the various Schools. indicated my willingness to carry out studies other issues of concern to the What is both from the Senate According to AAUP data for 1989-90 of equity or emerging, the committee. In addition, I told the members of 18 and from communi- (Academe, March-April, 1990), meeting April of female assistant of the committee that the deans had indicated cations in these pages, is a cry for average salary profes- sors was $39,500, compared with $45,600 to me their willingness to engage in a glasnost within the University. with the members of their The Senate Committee on the Economic for male assistant professors, for the dialogue faculty overall. Much more relevant respective schools, an approach that has been Status of the Faculty is frustrated by its University than the overall figures would be School- successfully carried out in the School of En- inability to obtain information on faculty and Science in the salaries for individual Schools. wide averages of salary for all those gineering Applied past. Depart- the same academic rank within Dr. Crockett's second issue about redaction mental averages should suffice, so that holding the same department. (If desired, an has been addressed by President Hackney in there need be no question of invasion of of Almanac. In Should information of this adjustment could be made for years the April 24, 1990, issue my privacy. kind based loss of of be shrouded in Can the served within the current rank, on judgment any confidentiality per- secrecy? estimates of the rela- sonnel dossiers will have the effect of Committee effectively monitor fairness in University-wide tionship of salary to years in rank.) Pay making it more difficult to make sound the conditions of employment for faculty, matters. ifdenied this information? equity data considerably more complex decisions about personnel Already than this have been we are a high refusal rate of A second issue ofglasnost relates to the recently developed experiencing for A-Is and A-3s. Why should not a writing letters in those cases that are likely refusal of the University to release in or difficult. form the documents simple measure of pay equity for women to be controversial complete subpoenaed and members be made Dr. Crockett's third issue concerning pay by the Equal Employment Opportunity minority faculty available? equity among various faculty groupings is of Commission in the Tung case. The sub- administration. We are mission of redacted documents, after the To the great credit of the Provost, one great concern to the extremely valuable body of information committed to fairness in this respect and Supreme Court unanimously affirmed the work with deans to achieve of the national interest in af- has recently been published: the compari- shall continue to primacy son of rates for women and the that both Dr. Crockett and I believe firmative action over the University's pri- hiring goals minorities with the proportional represen- are important. Dr. Crockett calls our vate interest in confidentiality, simply in the the that the Ad- tation of these categories in the relevant attention to the variations average compounds impression Ph.D. While this is of male and female assistant profes- ministration has something to hide in this pool. applauded by salary concerned faculty members, still more sors at Penn as reported in a recent issue of case. same issue ofAcademe also The Administration would have done openness is widely viewed as appropriate Academe. That and even provides information about variations of better to expend its efforts in trying to ne- necessary. with the -Jean A. Crockett, assistant professor salaries by discipline gotiate EEOC a limitation on the These national number of access to re- Professor of Finance nationally. averages vary people given peer from a low of $26,667 for Fine Arts to a high view materials. Justice does not require from the Provost of $48,023 for business. We believe that the that these be publicized to all the world, Response Dr. Crockett is of the that the variations in assistant professor salaries at or even that the plaintiff see them. But af- opinion refers are for the most firmative action cannot be administration should release departmen- Penn to which she implemented a function of the gender composition of unless courts and responsible government tal average salaries to the Senate Com- part mittee on the Economic Status of the various disciplines. We intend to monitor officials have access to them. So long as at all levels to make certain affirmative actions laws are on the books, Faculty. Average salaries by rank by faculty salaries school are shared with the members of that there is salary equity, not only among those who provide peer evaluations must of and racial know this. the Academic Planning and Budget persons gender groupings a with within disciplines, but in general. A third step toward glasnost is urgently Committee each year. In meeting needed: release of information about the the Committee on the Economic Status -Michael Aiken, Provost relative pay of female and minority of the Faculty earlier this semester I
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How the Medical School Throws a Party In 1765 John Morgan, M.D. fresh from ing (which were pioneered here), on the "doc- Edinburgh, addressed the University (then Col- tor of tomorrow," and on such long-term Penn lege) trustees toexplain the deplorable state of research strengths as obesity, aging, and de- contemporary medical education in the Colo- pression (the latter including William Styron, nies, and offered his proposals for formal medical the novelist). courses at Penn. Already appointed to the There are also sessions on cancer and car- faculty, he was to begin teaching in the fall. diology, two of the three fields in which the His course of study represented the start of Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania the first medical school in America, and thus was recently cited as the best in the nation by Penn's 250th Anniversary has a party within a US. News and World Report. Cancer is also party to celebrate PennMed's 225th. anniver- featured in a scientific symposium on May 19 sary. as part of Medical Alumni Weekend. Part ofthe celebration is anewhistory ofthe Festivities during the week will be spiced school, Innovation and Tradition at the Uni- by noted medical faculty luminaries. Baruch versity of Pennsylvania School of Medicine: S. Blumberg, M.D., Ph.D., Nobel laureate, and An Anecdotal Journey by David Y. Cooper, C. Everett Koop, M.D., will be receiving hon- M.D., professor ofsurgical research, and Marshall orary degrees at the University Commence- A. Ledger, Ph.D., editor ofPenn Medicine, the ment. (John Morgan was more orless a prede- medical alumni magazine. Just out from the cessor of Koop's, serving as director-general University of Pennsylvania Press, the book andchiefphysician ofthe Revolutionary Army's tells some little-known tales of the early days general hospital.) of conflict and exporation, and chronicles ac- In addition, alumnus Michael S. Brown, complishments of basic scientists and clini- M.D., Nobel laureate, is speaking at the dedi- cians from the time of the lancet to the advent cation of the Seymour Gray Foundation for of computers and other technology. Molecular Medicine on May 16. And Gerald Writing another in its dur- Edelman, M.D., another alumnus and Nobel There are deeds that should not pass away chapter history and names that must not wither. ing Peak Week, PennMed is bringing together laureate, is receiving the school's Distinguished the best known of its faculty and alumni to Graduate Award on May 18, when he will Thus Edgar Fahs Smith, quoted by Cooper and discuss critical issues and advances in health deliver a lecture. Ledger in Innovation and Tradition at the Uni- today.The Medical Faculty-Alumni Exchanges, Capping the week for alumni is a gala ball versity ofPennsylvania School ofMedicine, held in conjunction with the exchanges spon- at the Hotel Atop the Bellevuc. It will be the newly published by the University Press in sored on behalfof the 250th cele- first time in recent memory that all of the honor of the School's 225th Anniversary. A University's bicentennial Corner traced bration, continue the medical school's tradi- reunion classes have been brought together in history by George tion of on the forefront of medical one room to rekindle theirmemories and the founding and growth of the School and the being change. pride but this successor volume is Among the 25 topics are sessions on teen in their school. Hospital organized "Trauma Care as -Martha Lavell, around medical advances made by faculty, pregnancy, Every Citizen's associates and sometimes students. Right," spectroscopy and other formsofimag- Medical Communications Office
Left: Well within GSFA: Centennial in View memory of current faculty, Professors The Graduate School of Fine Arts is cele- Louis Kahn and Robert Le Richolais to brating its Centennial concurrently with Penn's (back 250th. camera) made black marks on white to Actually, architecture has been taught at paper Penn since teach design. Below, a 1869, making it the second after CAD MIT to offer such a course. But October 7, (for Computer- Assisted Design) 1890, thedate ofcreation ofthe Department of of Architecture in the product Towne School, is the date today's chosen as GSFA's founding. classroom. Today GSFA has over 700 graduate stu- dents enrolled in four departments-Architec- ture, City and Regional Planning, Fine Arts, and Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning-and five programs-Energy Man- agement and Policy, Government Administra- tion, Historic Preservation, International De- velopment and Appropriate Technology, and Urban as Design, well as undergraduates in The principal events of the GSFA celebra- Fine Arts, Urban Studies, and Design of the tion will be in and October. On Environment. September September 14 an exhibition of work of gradu- During Peak Week, GSFA is sponsoring ates and will in the Arthur Ross several events: faculty open Gallery and in Meyerson Hall, concurrently May 18, 5 p.m.: Opening of the Master of with publication of The Book of the School- Fine Arts Student Show 1990, a history ofGSFA. There will be weekly May 19, 10:30 a.m.: Faculty-Alumni talks by eminent graduates. The celebration Exchange: Architecture, Vision and Re- will culminate on October 11, with the Centen- ality nial Convocation at which four honorary de- May 19,2 p.m.: Faculty-Alumni Exchange: grees will be awarded, and a Gala Dinner with The WorldEnvironment the Trustees, graduates, faculty and students in May 19,4p.m.: Symposium: Future Issues the newly restored Reading Room of the Furness for Our Professions Building.
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HONORS &. . . Other Things PennMed Awards: Teaching, Program Design At School Commencement exercises Monday, the School of Medi- cine presented awards to 15 faculty members for teaching and related contributions. In addition to the five teaching awards established during the past decade, Special Dean's Awards were given for the first time this year in recognition of "outstanding achievements by members of the faculty in the development of special programs or for other meritorious contributions to medical education." Four received the new Special Dean's Awards: Dr. Herman Beerman, M '27, professor emeritus of dermatology, for outstanding achieve- ments as a member of the Department of Dermatology since 1929; Dr. DavidNess, clinical assistant professor of psychiatry, for the develop- ment of a comprehensive AIDS education program for medical stu- Dr. Beerman Dr. Ness Dr. Rostain dents; and Dr. Anthony Rostain, assistant professor ofpsychiatry at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic and Dr. Donald Schwarz, assistant professor of pediatrics at CHOP, for their development of programs to enhance the involvement ofmedical students and housestaffin commu- Added to the list of awards given by the nity service. Drs. Rostain and Schwarz have served as teachers, School of Medicine is the Special Dean's advisors and of the Penn Med Health Award faculty sponsors Community in medical education given to four Group since its inception two years ago. members of the faculty (above and at left). Dr. Robert Nu.ssbaum, associate professor of human genetics, won Starting at left below are nine of the 11 the Leonard Berwick Memorial Teaching Award. Dr. James E. Wheeler, winners ofolder Medical School teaching professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, received the Robert awards. (Not shown: Drs. Henry and Lisker; Dunning Dripps Memorial Award. Dr. David H. Henry Ill, clinical see story at right.) assistant professor of medicine at Graduate Hospital, was awarded the Blockley-Osler Award. S. U The four winners of the Dean's Award for Excellence in Basic Sci- Dr. Schwarz ence Teaching are: Dr. Stephen Baylor, professor of physiology; Dr. Robert Cohn, associate professor of pediatrics; Dr. Glen Gaulton, assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine; Dr. James Saunders, professor of otorhinolaryngology and human communica- tion. There were also four winners of the Dean's Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching: Dr. Newell Fischer, clinical professor ofpsychia- try, Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital; Dr. Sheldon Lisker, clinical professor of medicine, Graduate Hospital; Dr. Robert Roy, clinical associate professor of radiology, Presbyterian Medical Center; Dr. Richard Whittaker, clinical assistant professor oforthopaedic surgery, Pottstown Hospital.
Social Work Teaching Award Dr. Peter associate Dr. Nu.ssbaum Vaughan (right) Dr. Wheeler Dr. Baylor dean and associate professor of the School ofSocial Work, has again won the School's highest honor, the Excellence in Teach- ing Award given at graduation exercises yesterday. Dr. Vaughan also won the award in 1987. He was chosen by the stu- dents for being "exceedingly conscien- tious, available for student inquiry out of class...for a firm grasp of the literature and for easily confronting complex is- sues in classes."
250th's Co-captain Sidelined President Emeritus Martin Meyerson BACHRACH Dr. Cohn Dr. Gaulton Dr. Saunders (right) remains hospitalized following back surgery at HUP as the 250th Anni- versary celebration he co-chairs gets un- der way. "We miss Martin's leadership very much during these last days before Peak Week," said President Sheldon Hackney, "and we hope for a very speedy recovery." Continuously active in Uni- versity affairs since retiring from the presidency in 1981, Mr. Meyerson was recently honored by the French and Japa- nese governments for his contributions to education worldwide, and is credited by 250th Co-chair Paul Miller Jr. with the strong international thrust ofPeak Week's Dr. Fischer Dr. Dr. mixture of intellectual and social activ- Roy Wittaker ites. 4 ALMANAC May 15,1990
Four Plus Four in the Sciences Presidential Young Investigators: Four Penn assistant professors have been named Presidential Young Investigators. This is the second year in arow that four have been given to Penn scientists. The National Science Foun- dation-based program, which awards each win- ner up to $100,000 a year for five years for research, is a government/industry/academic partnership to help retain the brightest and best for academia. Including this year's winners, 19 young men and women from Penn have won Dr. Bonnell Dr. Roos since its inception seven years ago. The 1990 Drwinners are Dr. Dawn A. Bonnell of materials . Berry Dr. Dailey science and engineering; Dr. David Roos of biology; Dr. Val Breazu-Tannen of computer and information science; and Dr. Arjun G. Yodh of physics. Sloan Fellows: Again four, again all assis- tant professors: Dr. Donald H. Berry and Dr. William P. Dailey of chemistry; Dr. Dolan Boyd Pritcheti of pediatrics; and Dr. Stephen P. Zeldes of finance are 1990 Sloan Research Fellows. By its awards of S25,000, the Sloan Foundation supports young scientists who have "demonstrated special creative ability in the physical sciences, mathematics, neuroscience, and Dr. Breazu-Tannen Dr. Yodh economics." The funds are to be used Dr. Pritcheit Dr. Zeldes "flexibly rather than in prescribed ways."
Chairs Being Established Honors in Brief The establishment of the Edward B. Shils Two Penn faculty members have been elected Visiting Professorship in Arbirtration and to the American Academy ofArts and Sciences Alternative Dispute Resolution at the Law this year: Dr. Daniel I!. Janzen, Professor of School has been announced by Dean Cohn Biology and MacArthur Fellow, and Dr. Jane Diver. Fundraising is to continue toward a A. Men/cen, UPS Professor of Sociology and permanently endowed chairin Dispute Resolu- Demography and director of the Population tion named for the longtime George W. Taylor Studies Center. Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at Whar- Dr. David Espey, director of the Freshman ton. Family and friends of Dr. Shils, along with English program, has received a Fulbright the widow of the late Dr. Taylor, who was the Award. He will be Senior Lecturer in Ameri- firstHarnwell Professor at the University, have can Literature at Haceteppe University,Ankara. raised most of the funds so far, Dean Diver Dr. Ruth McCorkle, American CancerSociety said. After retiring from the Wharton School, Professor ofOncology Nursing, has been elected Dr. Shils resumed his education at the Law Dr. Shils Dr. Stellar to the Institute of Medicine of the National School, andMondayreceived an earned LL.M. Academic of Sciences, whose members are Hehascontinued to teach political science and Eliot Stellar's 70th Year- an oral version of chosen on the basis of professional achieve- dynamics of organization, while also estab- theFestschrift bringing figures from the pastto ment plus demonstrated concern for and in- lishing his own law practice. review (at lunch, dinner, meetings and a Sun- volvement with critical issues affecting the Colleagues ofDr. EliotStellar, the Univer- day brunch) his scientific gencology and vari- health of the public. Professor of sity Physiological Psychology in ous phases of a earner spent primarily at Brown, The Hospital ofthe University ofPennsyl- Anatomy and former Provost, are launching a Hopkins and Penn but with national roles in the vania is labeled one of America's Best Hospi- campaign to create a chair named for him. The major societies and international ties in re- tals in a U.S. News & World Report survey project begins formally with a two-day confer- search. For information contact Dr. Alan Ep- published April 30, cited especially for cancer, ence June 9 and 10, called A Celebration of stein, 326 Leidy Labs, Ext. 8-7124. cardiology and urology care.
Penn vs. Edinburgh: A Battle of Wits Many Faces' Open to All The Peak Week and exhibit OnMay 17 at 4:30p.m., the Philomathean Society and the Diagnostic ofthe reception of will Society University that celebrates Edinburgh debate the question, Resolved: Thatthe UK isAmerica's Most Valuable Colony, Friday minority permanence in the Rainey Auditorium of the University Museum. at Penn is open to all members of the Thedebate will bemoderated by Nicholas J. Constan, Jr., of law and assistant University-faculty, staff and students to adjunct professor whether or not, Alumni Relations the president, and the judges are Lord Ian Cochrane, Earl ofDundonald; Lady Beatrix Cochrane, minority Countess of Dundonald; Gordon Tindale, Cultural Attache to the British in Director Doris Cochran-Fikes has announced. and Dr. Embassy Washington; President Sheldon and Provost DilysWinegrad, a scholar of Anglo-Americana who is assistant to the president for special Hackney projects at Penn. Michael Aiken are hosts, and the exhibition Both the teams and thejudges will wear full academic dress and formal wear in celebration of titled The Many Faces of Pennsylvania: Penn's 250th Anniversary. Penn's Affirmation ofDiversity is produced the Archives and the This first meeting of Penn and Edinburgh in debate represents the culmination of and rich jointly by University historical ties long Penn 250th. which exist between Penn and Edinburgh, said Peter Baker, SAS '90, vice president of Philo. The first three professors of Penn's School ofMedicine were drawn from and The party is 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Friday, Penn's first Edinburgh, 18, at the School Plaza, provost, first vice provost and first professor oflaw were also products of the Scottish May Annenberg university system. with the School Auditorium Lobby as a rain location. The debate is open to all-for students at no charge, all others $5.
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1873-1925 Ivy Day Stone
1926-1961 IvyDayStone
1962-1990 Ivy Day Stone
Ivy Day Stone in Storage, Missing, or Damaged
Building with Ivy Day Stone
with Inset Quadrangle Dormitories Building Map N Inset Walkway
fBennett Hall Inset
Map of the Ivy Day Stones of the 'University ofPennslvania
Houston Hallan Hall Inset Past andPresent Campuses College Irvine Auditorium Inset
Chronology andLocation of The Ivy Day Stones: Since 1873 the Ivy DayStones Women's M'en's In celebration of the University's 250th anniversary, the Institute of Contemporary Art Year Location Year has produced a pamphlet onThe Ivy Day Stones, The University ofPennsylvania on 1873 College Hall C5 1926 Bennett Hall B6 Memorial Tower Dormitory, Quadrangle D3 Exhibit Since June 7, 1873 which includes these maps and chronologies and locations of 1874 College Hall C5 1927 Bennett Hall B6 Magee Dormitory. Quadrangle D4 1875 Hall C5 1928 Bennett Hall 66 Irvine Auditorium CS the Ivy Day Stones. It also contains an illustrated history of this Penn tradition, written by College Andrew 0. Robb, '87. 1876 College Hall C5 1929 Bennett Hall 86 Irvine Auditorium C5 College 1877 Hall C5 Hall B6 Irvine Auditorium CS This stone, the first to be round College 1930 Bennett year's rather than rectangular or shield-shaped, was 1878 College Hall C5 1931 Bennett Hall 86 Irvine Auditorium C5 unveiled on Saturday on the front facade of College Hall, right of the main entrance- 1879 College Hall C5 1932 Bennett Hall B6 Fumess Building C5 about 12 feet from the 1890 stone. 1880 College Hall C5 1933 Bennett Hall 66 Fumess Building C5 1881 Hall C5 College Hall has been the site chosen for the Ivy Day Stone 42 times since the College C5 1934 Bennett Hall B6 Fumess Building 1882 Hall C5 1935 Bennett Hall B6 Fumess CS University moved from Center City to its West to a Hall College Building Philadelphia campus, College 1883 Hall CS 1936 Bennett Hall 66 Irvine Auditorium C5 that bare and in need of From the outset the involved College [Missing] appeared landscaping. ceremony 1884 College Hall C5 1937 Bennett Hall 86 Irvine Auditorium CS as well as the speeches planting of ivy by the graduating class to commemorate its time 1885 College Hall (Arts) C5 1938 Bennett Hall B6 Irvine Auditorium C5 at Penn. The class of 1873 was the first to "make a permanently identifiable addition to 1885 College Hall (Sciences) C5 1939 Bennett Hall 86 Houston Hall CS the ivy-planting ceremony. This memorial of the north side of College Hall is the first I 1886 College Hall (Badly Eroded) CS 1940 Bennett Hall B6 Houston Hall CS 1887 Hall C5 Ivy Day stone." College C5 1941 Bennett Hall B6 Houston Hat 1888 Hall C5 1942 Bennett Hall 86 Laboratories C6 The event the name as of 1874 the College Chemistry gained Ivy Day and the following year stone itself 1889 Furness B5 1943 Bennett Hall B6 Laboratories C6 became the Building Chemistry focus of the tradition. In 1880 and 1895 the classes located their stones on the 1890 College Hall CS 1944 Bennett Hall B6 Houston Hall CS two centers of undergraduate life--the Furness Building (then the University Library) and 1891 College Hall C5 1945 Bennett Hall 66 Houston Hall C5 1892 Hall C5 Houston Hall CS Houston Hall, establishing that "placement as well as design could be a way for a class to College (Missing) 1946 Bennett Hall 86 demonstrate its 1893 College Hall C5 1947 Bennett Hall 86 Houston Hall CS individual interests." Hall From 1926 to 1961 not one but two 1894 College C5 1948 Bennett Hall B6 Irvine Auditorium CS stones were dedicated each year, one placed by 1895 Houston Hall C5 1949 Bennett Hall 86 Houston Hall CS men and one of by women. Location the stones is one way to distinguish them (the 1896 College Hall C5 1950 Bennett Halt 66 Houston Hall CS women's building at Penn was Bennett Hall); the other is that the majority of the men's 1897 College Hall C5 1951 Bennett Hall 86 College Hall C5 stones are vertical and the women's stones are horizontal. 1898 College Hall C5 1952 Bennett Hall 86 Steinberg-Oietrich Hall. C4 1899 Hall 86 The buildings chosen by the senior class most often over the have been College C5 1953 Bennett Hall B6 Towne Building years College 1900 Hall C5 1954 Bennett Hall B6 Hall C4 Hall, Bennett Hall, Houston Hall and Irvine these are no means College Sleinberg-Dietncl, Auditorium-although by Hall C5 1955 Bennett Hall B6 David Rittenhouse B7 the locations igol college Laboratory only singled out for recognition. There are Ivy Day stones on some 24 1902 Bodine Dormitory, Quadrangle D3 1956 Bennett Hall B6 Moore School Building 86 buildings in addition to one on Franklin Field and three on Locust Walk. "Collectively 1903 College Hall C5 1957 Bennett Hall 86 Butcher Dormitory, Quadrangle D4 1904 Hall CS and individually, the one hundred fifty-five Ivy Day stones embody the past and present College C5 1958 Bennett Hall 66 Houston Hall as well as the future a visible, continuum," said Mr. Robb. 1905 College Hall C5 1959 Hill House A6 McClelland Hall. Quadrangle D4 by forming tangible 1906 The brochure will be available at the information centers Peak Week and at the College Hall C5 1960 Hill House A6 Chemistry Laboratories C6 during 1907 College Hall C5 1961 Hill House A6 Ringe Squash Courts C7 ICA in Meyerson Hall. 1908 College Hall C5 1909 Hall C5 College Location 1910 College Hall C5 Year 1911 Franklin Dormitory, Quadrangle 03 1962 Van Pelt Library (In Storage] 85 1912 Bodine Dormitory, Quadrangle 03 1963 Van Pelt Library 85 1913 Phillips Brooks Dormitory, Quadrangle D3 1964 Van Pelt Library (In Storage] 65 1914 Foerderer Dormitory, Quadrangle D3 1965 Goddard Laboratories E3 1915 Joseph Leidy Dormitory, Quadrangle D3 1966 Caster Building 63 1916 Wilson D. Craig Dormitory. Quadrangle D3 1967 Houston Hall CS 1917 E. H. Filler Dormitory, Quadrangle D3 1968 Dietnch Graduate Library 85 1918 Wilson 0. Craig Dormitory, Quadrangle 03 1969 Van Pelt Library (In Storage] B5 1919 Francis Hopkinson Dormitory. Quadrangle 03 1970 Meyerson Hall 85 1920 Edgar F. Smith Dormitory, Quadrangle D4 1971 Annenberg Center 64 C3 1921 Wilson 0. Craig Dormitory. Quadrangle D3 1972 McNeil Building 1922 Foerderer Dormitory. Quadrangle 03 1973 Locust Walk, Superblock 82 1923 College Hall CS 1974 Memorial Tower Dormitory, Quadrangle 03 1924 Houston Hall C5 1975 Williams Hall C5 1925 Houston Hall C5 1976 College Hall CS 1977 Meyerson Hall 85 1978 College Hall C5 1979 Colonial Penn Center 64 1980 Palestra C7 Photographs on tilefacing page 1981 DuBois College House 61 E4 (from top left): 1982 Nursing Education Building 1983 Franklin Field C7 1873, 1881, 1897, 1906, 1910, 1923, 1944 Men's, 1984 Locust Walk, near Caster Building 63 1963, arid 1983. 1985 Irvine Auditorium C5 1986 Locust Walk, near Steinberg-Dietrich Hall 64 used with of the Office of All photographs permission 1987 Junior Balcony, Quadrangle 04 Student Life. AOlwiles and Fac,bties. 1988 Furness Building CS 1989 College Hall C5 1990 College Hall C5
The President's Address, Commencement 1990
Graduating into History by Sheldon Hackney
Chairman Shoemaker, trustees, faculty colleagues, honored guests, indefinite futures? One of the most instructive aspects of the revolution parents, grandparents, siblings, spouses, significant others, friends, and of the last eighteen months is the lesson that individuals can make a (last but not least) candidates for degrees in this festive year of the difference, as Dr. Valgelos illustrated so tellingly in his Baccalaureate University's history-welcome to our 234th Commencement exercises! address, and that some dimensions of the human spirit can not be At these important rites ofpassage, advicemay not be what you want eradicated even by long and thoroughgoing oppression. Havel, Sakharov, but it is what the genre requires. It generally comes in one of a limited Mandela and many others whose names are less well known did not take number of forms, each of them legitimate and important. There is the their individual stands in vain. A combination of idealism tempered by "Passing the Torch" advicein which some olderperson ofnote confesses hardship can inspire a people to demand change, to stand together with that his generation has fouled up the world horribly and maybe your open hands lofted abovetheirheads, notin surrender but toshow that they generation will do better. This is usually coupled with exhortations to go are unarmed in the face of the cohorts of oppression. "When spider webs forth and use your talents and learning to be of service to humanity. I unite," the Ethiopian saying goes, "they can tie up a lion." indulged myself in a brief version of this yesterday at the Baccalaureate Whether famous or unsung, the individual heroes of movements for service, and Dr. Vagelos did an elegant and compelling rendition to the freedom and for a more capacious sense of social justice, both at home same theme. and abroad, are the spiritual descendants of Antigone. Their humanity Then there is the more personal advice about how to balance the has been celebrated by playwrights over the ages. Sophocles, Anouilh, demands of career and family and service to humanity. Either in Havel in differing versions ofthe same story all remind us that the works conjunctionwith thisorindependently. You need tobereminded that you of the imagination, as well as the deeds of ordinary people provide should squeeze some meaning and satisfaction from life while you are lasting, important evidence of our commonly held human aspirations. busy carrying the torch of leadership and juggling the demands on your There is much left to do-muchleft for you to do. Athome, disparities time and attention: the unexamined life isn't worth living. of wealth, wellbeing and opportunity cry out for attention while our Finally, there are the admonitions to walk humbly in whatever way common commitments as Americans have a difficult time making you choose, and not to forget your origins. themselves felt across the barriers that seem to separate one group from I mention these familiar forms because I think the momentous events another in our increasingly diverse population. Authoritarianism has not currently transforming our globe are imposing an additional set of been expunged from the world, and I suspect the malevolent undertone requirements ongenerations coming to maturity in the lastdecade of the of the new world-without-walls will be more violence occasioned by twentieth century and thereafter, a requirement to locate oneself in ethnic, nationalistic, racial, and sectarian animosities. history in a more self-conscious way than in the past. Furthermore, there is noreason to expect a change in the accelerating We are living in extraordinary times. Though tyranny still exists, and pace in the creation ofnew knowledge nor in the trend toward economies injustices both foreign and domestic still abound, we are witnessing the that are more knowledge-based than before-and thus a widening gulf most hopeful explosion in the growth ofdemocracy in the history of the between the have and have-not nations. At the same time, the communi- world. Eleven months ago, the modest promises held out by glasnost and cations revolution that has already altered world consciousness and the perestroika were challenged, as acts of freedom had so often been in the self-perceptions of peoples everywhere will undoubtedly continue to past, by the drama in Tiananmen Square. There, the freedom movement work its wonders, raising aspirations and increasing frustrations. The seemed to be in full cry when, as the world looked on, the tanks moved economies of the world will become more interrelated, leading to in. Even for those too young to remember Hungary in 1956 and Prague transitional turbulence, and environmental challenges face us at every Spring in 1968, it suggested yet again that individual sparks of human turn. will, no matter how brave, couldnever win in a confrontation with a to- talitarian government grimly clinging to power. Now, in retrospect, it What does this have to do with you as an individual? Throughout seems more likely that the suppression of the freedom movement in human history most people have lived in situations in which the past was China was, and is, a momentary diversion from the inevitable. the best guide to the future, and in which the forces impinging on the Elsewhere, the march toward freedom has assumed an inexorable present, even when beyond human power to control, were comprehen- momentum. Authoritarian governments were put to rout in Chile and sible and were limited in number. As the world shrinks, as the buffers of Nicaragua by elections and in Panama by armed intervention. Even in geography and politics no longer insulate our local or national societies South Africa the tide ofevents has dramatically reversed and is flooding from each other, and as our cultural and economic lives are increasingly toward the empowerment of an oppressed racial majority. affected by developments and events that were once remote in every In Europe, it firstbecame apparent that the frontiers ofEastern Europe sense of the word, we will be more and more buffeted by an infinitely had become porous. Then,barriers started to fall. Before anyone thought complex force-field whose subtle vectors will be difficult to predict. To it was possible, the walls came tumbling down. Poland, East Germany, maintain some sense of command over one's own existence, one will Hungary-"But," they said, "It can't happen in Czechoslovakia." need to lead not only with rear-view mirrors but with wide-angle lenses Now the president of Czechoslovakia is a former prisoner of con- and telescopic sights as well. science who is a playwright: Vaclav Havel. We had hoped he could be Far from living in post-history, citizens of the twenty-first century with us today to celebrate our 250th Anniversary, but as he wrote to me, will be living in history as never before. They will be enveloped by "An important milestonewith the First Democratic election in over forty currents of change--change in social relationships, in economic activity, years" has made it impossible for him to be here now. "The election in geopolitical alignments, in cultural values, in most areas of life. Our campaign," he wrote, "will be demanding on a young nation rebuilding future as a species depends on our being able to understand and direct democracy. I hope you will understand the extraordinary developments those changes in beneficent directions; your future as an individual currently underway in ourcountry and thank you for yourshow of support depends on your ability to comprehend the context of your life and to and kind consideration." make something of value of it. For Romania-acountry so rarely mentioned on the frontpage,or any Penn should have given you some of the tools to make sense of your page, of The New York Times that the first problem for their journalists rapidly evolving world. You will need to keep learning all of your life, was how it should be spelled-things took a more violent turn. "It will and you should keep striving in your own corner of the world, whether never happen here," people said. "This is an antique tyranny perfected that is as a volunteer in a local humanitarian enterprise, or as the chief with a twentieth century face." Yet, at Christmas, the dictator met a executiveofficer ofamulti-national company, striving tomake the world summary end. more just, more free, more open to the possibilities ofthe human spirit. The wide world beyond our own little garden in Philadelphia is full In that quest I wish you Godspeed in the sure knowledge that you will ofsurprises. Are you ready tolive in that world ofcontingent choice and make Penn proud of you and that you will make the world a better place.
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Penn 'Firsts' and Other Facts for the 250th For fact-hungry media, the News Bureau's 250th Press Kit lists thefollowing Penn "firsts," some well-known and others not. If readers can list other breakthroughs made at Penn, please drop a note to Almanac at 3601 Locust Walki6224. --K.C.G.
In to offer a comprehensive degree program (from but Penn beat them the next year. American History bachelor's to doctorate) in nursing. -The world's oldest and -Eleven degree recipients, trustees or teach- largest relay compe- -The firstNewman Club on a college campus tition is the University's annual Penn Relays, ers of Penn signed the Constitution; nine signed was at Penn five the Declaration of organized by Roman Catholic founded in 1895. Over 14,000 individuals par- Independence. medical students in 1893. this at Penn's Franklin Field. -The first ticipated year public readingofthe Declaration of -In 1839, Professor Paul Beck Goddard Penn was the first to introduce the use of a Independence was at Penn, trustee (Medi- given by cine 1832) discovered instantaneous photogra- baton and metric measurements in relay races. John Nixon, on July 8, 1776. phy, thus making Daguerrean photography of -The first complete uniforms worn by an -President Washington appointed Professor practical use. (This was second in importance American football team were donned Penn and by Vice-Provost David Rittenhouse as the only to the original invention itself.) God- in 1876 for a game against Princeton. first director of the United States Mint. In dard's first daguerreotype was a view of the 1792, Rittenhouse devised the -Coach Bushnell's 1913 Penn team first used machinery and University building on Ninth Street. numbers on football in a dies for making United States coins. jerseys game against -The first course in marketing was taught at University of Wisconsin. -In 1921, Sadie Tanner Mosell Alexander Penn in 1904 by W.E. Kreusi. became the -The first commercially televised football first black woman to receive a Ph.D In from a She obtained a law Medicine game was Penn vs. University ofMaryland, in university. degree 1940. from Penn in 1921 and became the first black -The first medical school in the colonies was woman to be admitted to the Bar in the Com- founded at Penn by Dr. John Morgan in 1765. -The first us of the "forward pass" was initi- monwealth of ated John Heisman (Law '92), the famous Pennsylvania. -The first university-owned teaching hospi- by -The first tal, the of football coach after who the Heisman Trophy full-scale American archaeological Hospital the University of Pennsyl- is named. excavations in the Near East were carried out vania, was founded in 1874. the -The first use of the "placement kick from by University Museum/archaeology de- -The firstuse ofether as an anesthetic during partment in 1888, at the ancient site ofNippur was Dr. Crawford scrimmage" was used by Penn in an 1897 game surgery by Long (Medicine Harvard. in what is now Iraq. Penn archaeologists, in a 1839), on March 30, 1842. against joint project with the British Museum in 1922 basketball five-man teams -Professor Nathaniel an 1801 Penn -College using to 1934, uncovered the ancient City of Ur. Chapman, was first initiated in an 1897 Penn-Yale medical school graduate, was the first presi- game. dent of the American Medical -The firstblack man to in the In Higher Education Association, compete Olym- elected when the AMA organized in 1847. pics for the United States was track star John B. -A courseof graded study thathas beencalled -The first televised was Taylor (Veterinary '08), gold medalist in the the first modern liberal arts curriculum was surgical operation 1908 in London. performed by Dr. IsadoreS. Ravdin at Penn on Olympics established in 1756 in accordance with prin- March 16, set out founder 1952, on WPTZ-TV, a Philadelphia In Math and Science ciples by Benjamin Franklin. station. Unlike earlier college curricula in the Western -The first use of tungsten in incandescent World, it integrated traditional classic -The first American textbook on anatomy light bulbs was developed at Penn by Provost subjects was written in with such practical studies as physics, chemis- 1811 by Penn Professor Caspar Edgar Fahs Smith. try, natural history, mathematics, economics Wistar, for whom the Wistar Institute-and the familiar -The first broad principle of pure mathemat- and modern languages. wisteria vine-is named. Founded in ics, the Law of Accidental Error, was discov- 1892, it was the first institute de- -In 1779, Penn became the first institution of university ered by Penn Professor Robert Adrain in 1827. voted solely to advanced study and research in higher education in the United States to bear -The first all-electronic, the name anatomy and biology. large-scale general "university." purpose digital computer in the world, the -The first -The first American Dermatological Clinic was at Penn in collegiate school of business in the was established in 1871. ENIAC, completed 1946 by J. United States was Penn's Wharton School of Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly under the Finance and Commerce, founded in 1881. -The first X-ray photograph was taken by guidance of John Brainerd. -The first law Arthur Goodspeed of coins in a coin purse in -The first chairof was established university professorship in the 1891. chemistry United States was established at Penn in 1790 at Penn in 1769 by Dr. Benjamin Rush, "the by James Wilson. -Research faculty member John H. Gibbon father of American psychiatry." -The pioneered modern open heart surgery by using first student union building on an American a -In 1876, Grant's differential calculator, the was Penn's machine he designed to oxygenate blood, in first mechanical in the world, was collegiate campus Houston Hall, 1953. computer erected in 1896 and enlarged in 1939. Students installed at Penn. swam in the Houston Club "tank," the first -Penn's School of Veterinary Medicine is the -The first for hard coal on an only school to have been experiments burning swimming pool American college cam- veterinary developed as fuel were conducted at the University by pus. in association with a medical school. It is the first vet Professor James Woodhouse, who earned a -Penn was the first school to have a section in nutrition bachelor's from Penn in 1781 and a non-sectarian institution and one medical degree of higher in the colonies, and the in genetics. medical in 1792. He also demonstrated learning - degree fourth overall, after Harvard, Yale and Wil- More firsts among American medical insti- that oxygen was given off by living plants. liam and tutions: Department of Labo- Mary. Hygiene (1892), -Research and development ofthe photoelec- -The first ratory of Clinical Medicine (1895), Depart- chair of psychology in the world ment of tric cell by Professor Herbert E. Ives, who was established at Penn in 1888. The Health (1906), Department of Surgical earned a bachelor's in 1905, led to the nation's Research and School of Allied Medical degree first psychological clinic was founded in the (1936), firstpublictelevision transmittal.The of Professions (1950). image College in 1896. Herbert C. Hoover, twice an honorary alumnus In Athletics ofPenn, was between New York and -The first Shakespeare Society in the United projected - on April 7, 1927. States was founded at Penn in 1852. The first recorded relay race, the precursor Washington of the -The first of in this coun- -Penn is the first and only Ivy League school Relay Carnival, was run May 12, 1892, department botany between Penn and Princeton. Princeton won, try was established at the University in 1768.
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Caution at the Bank Machines In an April Penngram to faculty and staff, ATMs Within Now and Coming Soon Senior Vice President Mama Whittington has University Buildings: alerted the University community tosafety and Hamwell House (High Rise East): Penn ID is required for admission to the building. security issues surrounding the use of these The ATM is located in the lobby and is open 24 hours. This is a full-service machine. facilities, especially at night. "It is for McClelland Hall: Building admittance requires Penn ID. The ATM is located in the increasingly important students, 8 a.m. to and staff members to exercise caution lobby and is open Sunday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 2 a.m.; Friday midnight; faculty 10 a.m. to This is a full-service machine. when using Automated Teller Machines and Saturday midnight. (ATMs)," said Dr. Whittington. "General safety Houston Hall: ATM is located in the lower level, west end. It is open Monday through guidelines suggest using machines located in Friday, 7:30 am. to 11:45 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m. to 11:45 p.m. campus buildings, and avoiding facilities at Penn Book Store: ATM is located in the Sundries department and is open Monday night." 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 and 10 Dr. listed ATMs within the through Thursday p.m.; Friday p.m.; Saturday Whittington a.m. to 5 University areas which are jointly controlled p.m. bythe University and by ProvidentBank, along Upcoming: Plans are under way to open Penn-sponosred facilities at 3401 Walnut Street with their hours ofoperation and accessibility (3401 Cafe), and in the lobby of the Penn Tower Hotel. (see list at right).
OF RECORD
University of Pennsylvania Academic Calendar 1990-1991
1990 Fall Term 1991 Spring Term Religious and other holidays, 1991-92 August 30-31 Thurs./Fri. Move-in and registration for transfer students Jan. 10-11 Thurs./Fri. Registration for undergraduate (These dates are provided for information only. August 31 Friday Center for University of Pennsylvania transfer students They are not necessarily recognized within the (CUPID) opens in Palestra January 14 Monday Spring term classes (day and Academic Calendar.) Identi(through Sept. 7) -fication evening) begin. Drop/Add begins. Labor Day Monday Sept. 3 September 1 Saturday Move-in for freshmen/New student orienta- February 1 Friday Add period ends Rosh Hashanah Thurs./Fri. Sept. 20-21 tion activities begin February 22 Friday Drop period ends Yom Kippur Saturday Sept. 29 September 2 Sunday Opening Exercises and March 8 Friday Spring recess begins at close Columbus Day Monday Oct. 8 Freshman Convocation of classes Veterans' Day Sunday Nov. 11 September 3 Monday Labor Day; CUPID closed; New Student March 18 Monday Spring recess ends at 8:00 a.m. Thanksgiving Thursday Nov. 22 Advance for Fall Term and Community Orientation March 25/ Mon./Sun. registration Christmas Tuesday Dec. 25 September 4 Tuesday Deans' Meetings; College, April 7 SummerSession New Year's Day Tuesday Jan. 1 Wharton) Term classes end (Engineering, Nursing, April 26 Friday Spring Martin Luther King, September 5 Wednesday Placement Examinations April 29/ Mon./Wed. Reading Days Jr.'s Birthday Monday Jan. 21 September 6 Thursday First Day of Classes May I Presidents' Day Monday Feb. 18 September 21 Friday Add period ends May 2-10 Thurs. Fri. Final Examinations Philadelphia Flower October 12 Friday Drop period ends May 18 Saturday Alumni Day Show Sun/Sun. Mar. 10-17 October 13-16 Saturday Fall term break May 20 Monday Baccalaureate Good Friday Friday March 29 October 27 Saturday Homecoming May 21 Tuesday Commencement Easter Sunday Sunday March 31 Nov. 9-10 Fri./Sat. Parents' Weekend Passover Sat/Sat. Mar. 30-Apr. 5 Term Nov. 5-18 Mon./Sun. Advance registration for Spring 1991 Summer Sessions Memorial Day Monday May 27 November 21 Wednesday Thanksgiving recess begins at close of May 21 Tuesday 12-week Evening Session classes begin Independence Day Thursday July 4 classes May 22 Wednesday First Session classes begin November 26 Monday Thanksgiving recess ends at 8:00 am. June 28 Friday First Session classes end December 10 Monday Fall Term classes end July 1 Monday Second Session classes begin Dec. 11-12 Tues. Wed. Reading Days July 4 Thursday Independence Day Dec., 3-21 Thurs./Fri. Final Examinations August 9 Friday Second Session and 12-week Session December 21 Friday Fall Term ends classes end
Academic Calendar 1991-1992
1991 Fall Term 1992 Spring Term Religious and other holidays, 1991-92 August 29-30 Thurs./Fri. Move-in and registration for transfer students January 9-10 Thurs./Fri. Registration for undergraduate transfer (These dates are provided for information only. August 30 Friday Center for University of Pennsylvania Identi- students They are not necessarily recognized within the in fication (CUPID) opens Palestra January 13 Monday Spring Term Classes (day and evening) be- Academic Calendar.) (through Sept. 6) gin. Drop/Add begins Labor Day Monday Sept. 2 for freshmen/New student orienta- August 31 Saturday Move-in January 31 Friday Add period ends Roan Hashanah Monday Sept. 9 tion 21 ends begins February Friday Drop period Yom Kippur Wednesday Sept. 18 1 Exercises and Freshman September Sunday Opening March 6 Friday Spring recess begins at close of classes Columbus Day Monday Oct. 14 Convocation March 16 Monday Spring recess ends at 8:00 am. Veterans' Day Monday Nov. 11 2 Labor CUPID closed; New Student September Monday Day; March 30/ Mon./Sun. Advance registration for Fall Term and Sum- Thanksgiving Thursday Nov. 28 Community Orientation April 12 mar Session Christmas Wednesday Dec. 25 September 3 Tuesday Deans' Meetings: (College, Engineering. April 24 Friday Spring Term classes end New Year's Day Wednesday Jan. 1 Wharton) Nursing, April 27-29 Mon./Wed. Reading days Martin Luther King, September 4 Wednesday Placement Examinations Apr. 30-May 8 Thurs./Fri. Final Examinations Jr.'s Birthday Monday Jan. 20 5 First of Classes September Thursday day May 16 Saturday Alumni Day Presidents' Day Monday Feb. 17 Add ends September 20 Friday period May 17 Sunday Baccalaureate Philadelphia Flower October 11 Friday Drop period ends May 18 Monday Commencement Show Sun/Sun. Mar. 8-15 October 12-15 Sat./Tues Fall Term break Good Friday Friday April 17 October 25-26 Fri./Sat. Parents' Weekend 1992 Summer Sessions Passover Sat/Sat. April 18-25 November 9 18 Twelve-week Session classes Saturday Homecoming May Monday Evening begin Easter Sunday Sunday April 19 4-17 Advance for Term 19 First Session classes Nov. Mon./Sun. registration Spring May Tuesday begin Memorial Day Monday May 25 November 27 recess at close of June 26 First Session classes end Wednesday Thanksgiving begins Friday Independence Day Saturday July 4 classes June 29 Monday Second Session classes begin December 2 Monday Thanksgiving recess ends at 8:00 am. July 4 Saturday Independence Day December 9 Monday Fall Term classes end August 7 Friday Second Session and Twelve-week Evening Dec. 10-11 Tues./Wed. Reading Days Session classes end Dec. 12-20 Thurs./Fri. Final Examinations December 20 Friday Fall Term ends
Source: Office of the Vice Provost for University Life. Inquiries may be addressed to Terry Conn. Ext. 6081. The 1990-91 and 1991-92 calendars are being printed as approved, with slight modifications. The 1992-93 calendar is still under discussion and will be printed in a forthcoming edition.
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University of Pennsylvania Police Department This report contains tallies of part 1 crimes, a listing of part 1 crimes UpdatMAY AT PENNe against persons, and summaries of part 1 Crime in the busiest sectors Date Change: The Mahoney Institute of Neuro- sched- on campus where two or more incidents were reported between logical Sciences' colloquium originally to As May 7, 1990 and May 13, 1990. uledfor May 16 has been changed May 30. listed in At Penn, the time and locaition Totals: May Crimes Against Persons-1, Thefts-1 4, Burglaries-0, remain thesame:4:15p.m., Room 140,John Mor- Thefts of Auto-1, Thefts of Auto--0 Attempted gan Building. Date Time Location Incident SPECIAL EVENTS Crimes Against Persons: InternationalDance Traditions; Two 05/12/90 2:44 AM Acacia Residents robbed in front of house 19 daysof concerts, workshops,and films, some ofthe finest 32nd to 33rd; South to Walnut dancers, representing more than fifteen cultures. 05/i0/90 11 :36 PM Lot 5 Auto taken from lot Featuring concerts on Saturday at 8 p.m. and 05/12/90 7:27 PM Lot 5 Baseball equipment taken from auto Sunday at 2p.m. Kickoff on Saturday at 2p.m., 05/i2/90 8:04 PM Lot 5 Suitcase and clothing taken from auto International House. For more information call 34th to 38th; Civic Center to Hamilton 387-5125 (International House). 05/07/90 9:25 AM Botanical Garden Rocks taken from garden 05/11/90 10:57 AM Leidy Lab Balance taken from room TALKS 05/11/90 3:38 PM Medical School Bacterial toxin taken from room 17 The Struggle for the Future of the Soviet 39th to 40th; Spruce to Locust Union: A View From Within; Vadim Sokolov, will 05/09/90 1:42 PM Harrison House Answering machine taken from room prominent Soviet writer, the lecture be deliv- 05/09/90 3:23 PM 1925 House Secured bike taken from rack ered in Russian, consecutive translation will be 4-5 FPRI 1st floor, There was no fourth or fifth busiest sector this provided; p.m., Library, during period. Ralston House, 3615 Chestnut Street (Foreign Policy Research Institute). Safety Tip: Report all suspicious occurrences or breeches in security procedures to University Police at 898-7333 or 511 for emergencies. Your awareness could 18 Kinetic Analysis of Membrane Cycling in prevent a potential crime. Single AJO Smooth Muscle Cells; Bruce D. Jensen, Zynaxis Cell Science, Inc., Malvern, PA; 12:15p.m., Room 1,John Morgan Building (Insti- tute for Environmental Medicine). 18th District Philadelphia Police Serum Cholesterol Reduction Study Schuylkill River to 49th Street, Market Street to Woodland Avenue Volunteers are needed for a 15-week study 12:01 AM April 23, 1990 to 11:59 PM May 6, 1990 to determine the effectiveness of a five fiber Totals: 34 Incidents, 7 Arrests supplement to lowerserum cholesterol. Physi- cians at the University Medical Center are part Date Time Location Offense/Weapon Arrest of a nationwide clinical trial. This study will 4/23/90 12:15 AM 4224 Spruce Purse Snatch/strong-arm No measure the effectiveness of an inexpensive 4/24/90 10:05 PM 4333 Baltimore Robbery/strong-arm No and non-toxic fiber supplement to be used 4/26/90 1:14 AM 4423 Locust Robbery/knife No before drug therapies are begun and diet inter- 4/26/90 12:05 AM 500S.45 Robbery/strong-arm Yes vention has ended. 4/26/90 12:46 AM 4200 Locust Robbery/knife No Penn's cholesterol reduction study is open 4/26/90 3:32 AM 4617 Pine Robbery/knife No tohealthy adults ages 18-70, who are within 30 4126/90 5:30 PM 208S.40 Aggravated Assault/knife Yes percent of their optimum weight, have been 4127/90 1:45 AM 4516 Pine Robbery/knife No diagnosed with mild to moderate primary 4/27/90 12:00 AM 241 S.49 Aggravated Assault/fists No hypercholesterolemia and are not currently 4/27/90 5:00 PM 4600 Cedar Robbery/strong-arm No using lipid-lowering drugs. Selected patients 4/28/90 2:10 AM 4000 Locust Robbery/knife No must be available at three-week intervals for 4/28/90 2:45 AM 4707 Baltimore Robbery/strong-arm Yes lipoprotein measurements and evaluation. For 4/28/90 9:20 AM 4300 Pine Robbery/strong-arm No more information: 662-2450. 4/29/90 12:00 PM 4000 Irving Robbery/knife No 4/29/90 3:12 AM 3400 Walnut No Rape Deadline: For a week before 4/29/90 6:07 AM 406S.45 Robbery/sim weapon No Update: Mondays 4/29/90 8:40 PM 211S.47 No each issue goes to press. For Summer at Penn Robbery/gun calendar: 15. Submit in or 4/29/90 9:12 PM 4303 Locust No pullout May writing by Robbery/gun e-mail to addresses shown below. 4/29/90 9:30 PM 4000 Sansom Robbery/knife No 4/30/90 10:25 PM 4600 Osage Robbery/strong-arm No 4/30/90 10:00 PM 300S.45 Robbery/knife No 5/2/90 9:57 PM 4000 Irving Robbery/knife No 5/3/90 3:30 PM 32S.40 Robbery/strong-arm No 5/3/90 4:02 PM 4600 Market 3601 Locust Walk Philadelphia. PA 19104-6224 Robbery/strong-arm No 898-5274 or 5275 FAX 898-9137 5/3/90 PM (215) 6:05 4100 Ludlow Robbery/knife No E-Mail [email protected] 5/3190 5:00 PM 4400 Market Robbery/pipe No 5/4190 1:12 AM 4200 Locust No EDITOR Karen C. Gaines Robbery/knife ASSOCIATE EDITOR F. Miller 5/4/90 2:22 PM 4217 Chestnut Marguerite Robbery/strong-arm No EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Margaret Ann Morris 5/4/90 12:35 AM 4700 Locust Robbery/strong-arm Yes STUDENT ASSISTANTS Ashley M. Dupuy, David K. 5/4/90 6:47 PM 4400 Ludlow No Kim, Jung V. Sarah Kim, Robbery/knife William 5/6/90 12:02 PM Phuong Nguyen, 4928 Hazel Aggravated Assault/stick Yes Shraga. Lynn L. Westwater 5/6/90 7:26 PM 1309S.49 Aggravated Assault/stick Yes ALMANAC ADVISORY BOARD: For the FacultySenate. June 5/6/90 7:26 PM 1309S.49 Assault/stick Yes Axinn, RE. Davies, Charles D. Graham (Chair), Almarin Phillips, Aggravated Lorraine Tutman and Vukan A. Vuchic; for the Administration, William Epstein;for Staff Assemblies, Deverie Pierce (Al), Irma Feldman (Librarians). Joseph Kane (A3).
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Highlights of Peak Week at Penn
The Three Plenaries: World Leaders Open Each Day Rita May 17- Plenary Session 1: Address by May 18- Plenary Session 2: Address by May 19-Plenary Session 3: Address by Ronald Reagan, 40th president of the U. S.; OscarAriasSanchez, former president of Costa Klimova, Czechoslovakia's ambassador to the 8:45-10:15 a.m., Convention Hall, Civic Cen- Rica and Nobel Peace Prize winner; 8:45- United States; 8:45-10:15 a.m., Convention ter. 10:15 a.m., Convention Hall, Civic Center. Hall, Civic Center.
World Without Walls: Three Colloquia with Ted Koppel
May 17- After the Cold War May 18-The New Global Marketplace May 19-Culture in a Communications Age examines changes the U.S.and the world can focuses on the partnerships and alliances form- journeys into the worlds of culture and infor- expect to face as new governments challenge ing as traditional economic barriers fall. This mation where the dizzying pace of technologi- traditional ideologies. Is communism really economic "mini-summit" examines the corpo- cal advancement seems to leave traditional dead, orjust dormant? Whatis the potential for rate culture in which huge international com- high culture behind. The impact of television break-up of the entire Sovietempire? Need we panies can displace governments. Is there an and computers on politics and culture, and the fear rampant nationalism, rising fundamental- inherent tug-of-war between the rise ofpoliti- cultural/technological world we face in the ism, economic disarray? Joining debate: cal nationalism and the spread of economic 21st century, are on tap for discussion. Onthis henryKissinger(via satellite), formerSec- internationalism? Developments to be discussed panel: retary of State, now president of the interna- are Europe 1992, German reunification, and Tom Wolfe, cultural observer andbest-sell- tional consulting firm Kissinger & Associates. growing Japanese might. Debaters: ing author of The Bonfire ofthe Vanities, The FyodorBurlatsky, a leading member of the Lee Kuan Yew, Primer Minister of Sin- RightStuffand The Purplej)ecades, winner of Supreme Soviet and the Congress of Peoples' gapore the American Book Award and the National Deputies, and chair, USSR Human Rights Eberhard von Kuenhei,n, chairman ofBMW Book Critics Circle Award Committee. Worldwide John Sculley, CEO of Apple Computer, Sadako Ogata, former Minister to the United Kazuo Nukazawa, managing director, former president and CEO of Pepsi Co and Nations from Japan, member of Tn-Lateral Kaidanren (Japanese Federation of Economic chosen CEO oftheDecade for marketing by the Commission, and dean, Sophia University Inter- Organizations) Financial News Network national Relations Institute, Tokyo; Peter Peterson, former U.S. Secretary of Daniel Boorstin, author and librarian emeri- FouadAjami, a leading Middle East expert Commerce and chairman of The Blackstone tus of the Library of Congress and scholar of fundamentalism and Khadduri Group, a leading international investment firm, NicholasNegroponte, director ofthe Media professor (Islamic studies) at the Johns Hopkins former chairman, Lehman Brothers Lab, M.I.T. School ofAdvanced and International Studies; Jerry Wind, Lauder Professor and profes- Esther Shapiro, television writer and pro- Lord Roy Jenkins, former president of the sor ofmarketing at the Wharton School, found- ducer European Community and current chancellor ing director of the SEI Center for Advanced Paul Fussell, cultural historian and profes- ofOxford University, former chancellor ofthe sor of English literature at Penn, author of Exchequer, U.K.; Class: A_Guide Through the American Status Olara Otunnu, president,International Peace System; Wartime: Understanding and Behav- Academy, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, ior in theSecond World War., and other books Uganda, and former president of the United Nations Security Council; Walter McDougall, Pulitzer Prize-winning All three Colloquia run from 10:30a.m. until 12:30p.m. on their respective days, in the Zellerbach historian and director of Penn's International Theatre, Center. are scheduled for telecast on PBS, in June; see local Relations Annenbcrg They tentatively program. program guides for exact dates.
Alumni/Faculty Exchanges " More than 100 presentations by the University's faculty, scholars, and alumni take up a wide range of topics including governmental issues at the civic, national and international levels, health care and biomedical breakthroughs, educational and social issues, business, and the arts. For a complete list of titles and speakers, times and places, see the 16-page booklet inserted in Almanac April 24,, Keeping Franklin's Promise: Dialogues Exzraordinaires, available at the Houston Hall Information Desk.
The Biggest Bashes 17- May The Birthday Party: champagne, May 18-Ben's Bandstand Bash: fifties food, May 19- Penn MayFare: an international cake, music, dancing and a sound and light fashion, fun, and dancing with live perform- festival with foods from every corner of the spectacular; 10p.m., Blanche Levy Park/ Col- ances by the Platters, the Orlons, and D.J. globe, complemented by international perform- Green. lege JerryBlavit; 8:15p.m., Palestra, $35. Sneakers ers. 5:30p.m., Hill Field, $15; lasting untiljust required. before.... .PennULTIMATE: the gala featuring Bill Cosby, ofthe Cosby Show, and country singers More parties, performances and otherdiversions are in the Program Booklet, including exhbits such Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers; 8:30 p.m., as The Intellectual World ofBenjamin Franklin at the Arthur Ross Galler and Van Pelt's Kamin Convention Hall, Civic Center, $20 tickets Gallery. See also page 5 for a Scottish-American debate, and an all-University reception Friday. required.
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