“Let’s Roll Up Our Sleeves”
From the Editor: Nov|Dec 2004
A Marriage “Meant to Be”
Amy Gutmann’s inauguration as the University’s eighth president featured a day of community service, a concert on Hill Field, and a wide-ranging symposium, among other events. In her inaugural speech the president called for a new “Penn Compact.”
Nov|Dec 2004
Volume 103, No. 2
Homecoming 2004
Photos from the game. Plus: Alumni Award of Merit Citations.
Taste Quakers
“Everyone who graduated from Penn is either a doctor, a lawyer or … a food writer, it seems.” Well, not quite, but this alumna soon found she wasn’t the only one—food writer, that is.
Strange Labyrinth
Behind the gift to Penn’s library of a very rare 17th-century book lies the moving story of an alumna scholar’s groundbreaking research and untimely death.
Letters
Nov|Dec 2004
Fall Foliage
Election Season
Confessions of an Identity Thief
A direct line to the editor—is it worth the guilt?
Japanese Lesson
Lost—and then found—in translation.
What’s Wrong With White House Barbie?
Does a Generation Gap endanger feminism’s future?
Summons to an Academic Adventure
Gutmann to new students: Move to Penn “major upgrade”
Administrative Posts Filled
Craig Carnaroli named EVP
A Vote for Fairness
Should people with dementia be allowed to vote?
A Fresh Start
Rodin to head Rockefeller Foundation
Counting Sheep in Space
Sleeping in space
One of the Fab Four
U.S. News & World Report ranks Penn fourth
A Winning Combination: Management and Technology
M&T program at 25
Kiss a Frog, Kill Germs?
Frog skin fights bacteria
Hospitality, Latin Style
La Casa Latina at five
It’s Official: No Grad Union
NLRB rules against union in Penn case
Extreme Makeover
Second high-rise renovation completed
Monumental Task
Rybczynski named to Commission of Fine Arts