The Snow Day Kid
Fool for love.
My Rookie Season
New game, same competitive spirit.
Slamdance
The lure of lucha libre.
Cultivating Cassandras
The Cassandra Coefficient.
Arts Calendar
Nov|Dec 2017
Finally, an EPIC at Penn
EPIC Conference: Pound, Williams, H. D., Moore.
Becoming Nazi
Thomas Childers’ The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany.
Three Ways of Seeing Rome
Three Women Photographers in Rome at Arthur Ross Gallery.
Sweet 16
Daedalus to play all 16 Beethoven string quartets in a single season.
Briefly Noted
Nov|Dec 2017
Enemy of the State
How should a free press behave? And how shouldn’t it?
Earthworkers
North American moundbuilders at the Penn Museum.
From 10th-Grade English to Trigger Warnings
Two new books by Penn faculty explore how free expression
on campus became so fraught and what to do about it.
PennDesign at Manitoga
Architecture students were artists-in-residence at Manitoga estate.
Nuclear Nightmares
The odds of war with North Korea, and of reducing them.
FDA Approves First Gene Therapy for Cancer
FDA approval for Penn-developed gene therapy for cancer.
Welcome to Terra Incognita
Convocation message: “We are all discoverers.”
New Hope for Sinus Infections
Blocking sweet-taste receptors could clear stuffy sinuses.
Roster Madness
Promising veterans, big-time recruits, and a depth-chart balancing act for men’s and women’s hoops.
Scoreboard
From Aug. 28 to Oct. 9.
At the Center of It All
Bob Schoenberg has been leading Penn’s LGBT Center since before there even was one, really. As he retires after 35 years of caring counsel and fierce advocacy, the campus home he built is being renamed in his honor.
Tears, Music, Memories
Introducing the Robert Schoenberg Carriage House.
Hill Rises
The Eero Saarinen-designed landmark has reopened after a 15-month, $80 million renovation, with its distinctive mid-century style lovingly restored and a host of new amenities for students.
Everybody Comes to Casablanca
In film scholar Noah Isenberg C’89’s engaging investigation of “Hollywood’s Most Beloved Movie,” the lives of the émigré actors who made up most of the cast share the spotlight with the famous love triangle and wartime call to arms. Their stories also echo forward to our own era’s debates over the treatment of refugees and immigration policy.