Obituaries
July|Aug 2007
July|Aug 2007
Volume 105, No. 6
Mr. Meyerson Comes to Town
Martin Meyerson Hon’70’s low-key first day as president of the University.
Biscuits Rising
The Disco Biscuits—Penn’s own jam band of the 1990s—have a new sound (some call it Bisco), a different (and non-alumnus) drummer, and a growing fan-base (“this whole, like, people-following-us-around-the-country, circus type of thing”). Their headlining performance at this summer’s Jam on the River at Penn’s Landing may have been their most memorable ever—even if it was shut down after only 30 minutes.
Alumni Weekend 2007
Slideshow. Plus: "Food for Thought."
Letters
July|Aug 2007
Report from Blacksburg
“Our campus, you know, this is our home.”
Media Impacts
From the Editor: May|June 2007
Harold Ford’s Next Move
The notorious “Call Me” ad may—or may not—have cost former U.S. Representative Harold Ford Jr. C’92 election as the first African-American senator from the South since Reconstruction. But despite his narrow loss in Tennessee last fall, he emerged from the race as “a rock star, basically.”
The Secret of Our Success
Women can achieve a fulfilling blend of motherhood and career—just maybe not perfection. And that’s OK, says journalist and mother Leslie Bennetts CW’70, in an excerpt from her new book, The Feminine Mistake.
Sustainable Dividends
From College Hall: May|June 2007
Letters
May|June 2007
May|June 2007
Volume 105, No. 5
My Velvety Heaven
“The Green Couch is perfect.”
Sing a Song of the PUC
How being a roadie prepares you for life.
The Mother Hens of Andrín
“I felt excessively like a biology exhibit.”
Hope or False Hope?
What stories about celebrities and their illnesses mean to the rest of us.
An Inaccurate Truth?
Giegengack’s inconvenient questions.
Budding Bioethicist Wins Gates Fellowship
Senior Alix Rogers wins Gates Fellowship.
A Writer by Any Other Gender
Feminist Toril Moi on not being a “woman writer.”
Marketing Professor Pleads Guilty
Ward pleads guilty to child pornography charges.
Champions
B-baller turned blogger Steve Danley; wrestler Valenti champion again.
Out of Armenia
Poems political and personal by Gregory Djanikian C’71.
Faith Amid the Deathworks
An appreciation of the late Philip Rieff.



















