Border States
From the Editor: Sep|Oct 2007
Opening Doors
From College Hall | Penn’s College Houses let students choose their own adventure.
Youth, Interrupted
The Adolescent Mental Health Initiative is a major, Penn-led effort to address what one expert calls the “chronic diseases of the young.”
The Ethnologist Sets Out
William Curtis Farabee conducted pioneering studies of the Amazon for the Penn Museum in the early part of the 20th century. His journals and notebooks offer extraordinary glimpses of the area’s indigenous peoples, and the artifacts he brought back offer an unmatched—and still largely unexamined—treasure-trove of cultural materials.
Web, Take Two
The ranger of a virtual dog park, an Internet entrepreneur-turned-venture capitalist, a story scout, a “fake engineer,” and a word-of-mouth marketer are among the Penn players in a movement known (by some) as Web 2.0.
Letters
Sep|Oct 2007
Everything’s in a Name
“All those years, I was only fooling myself.”
Take Note
The mid-1960s English classroom, revisited.
Three Lessons in Table Manners
Teaching an anthropologist how to eat.
Kind Strangers
International adoption is redefining the American family—for the better.
Beyond Gun Control
Guns aren’t going away, so how can we live with them more safely?
The Summer Anti-Internship
New award lets entrepreneurs take care of business all summer long
Wharton Names New Dean
Arrivals & departures at Wharton, admissions, and alumni relations
From French Fries to Fuel
“You’re burning it anyway—might as well run your cars on it”
Mock Stocks Lead to Real Gains
Mock-stock portfolio earns real money
Graduate Students Unite
Grad-student governments merge
“Gray Lady” Goes Digital
Changing Times
Research Briefs
Research briefs
Wanted: Kicking Game
Football preview