Polonius Was Right!
James Scurlock W’93
Social Movement
Steven Weisz C’78 GEd’79
Alumni Notes
Nov|Dec 2007
Obituaries
Nov|Dec 2007
Taking Flight
Window, Nov|Dec 2007
Nov|Dec 2007
Volume 106, No. 2
Opening Doors
From College Hall | Penn’s College Houses let students choose their own adventure.
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.
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”
“Gray Lady” Goes Digital
Changing Times
Research Briefs
Research briefs
Wanted: Kicking Game
Football preview
Behind the “Crimes of Omission”
Student curators explore “Crimes of Omission” at ICA
What Is Dirt?
Literary censorship from Flaubert to Nabokov.
Briefly Noted
Sep|Oct 2007
Taking Life by the Horns
Michael Lenahan C’05
Live Wire
John Doman C’66