Volume 110, No. 3
Features
Glee at 150
After a century and a half, Penn’s oldest performing arts group
is still going strong. By Molly Petrilla
The Geeks Shall Inherit the Bars
Penn alumni are at the forefront of a growing movement to make socializing safe for the world’s nerds. By Caren Lissner Matzner
Penn Perspectives on the 99 Percent
Faculty talk about what lies behind the Occupy phenomenon, what may lie ahead, and what the recent spate of protests across the political spectrum portends for the republic. By Trey Popp
Homecoming 2011
Photos from the festivities.
Plus: Alumni Award of Merit winners and citations
Departments
ESSAYS : First Person
Notes from the Undergrad Islam, in Philly and Morocco
Alumni Voices “He gave me books”
Elsewhere Haiti after the earthquake
Expert Opinion Happy stakeholders worth more than gold
GAZETTEER : News & Sports
Center for Africana Studies turns 40
Gutmann receives TCPW’s Beacon Award
Penn team performs double hand-transplant at HUP
Penn Praxis marks its first decade
Looking to the past for lessons on climate change
Findings
A tribute to Adolph “Beep Beep” Bellizeare C’75
Football falters, hoops hopeful
Scoreboard
ALL THINGS ORNAMENTAL : The Arts
ART For conceptual artist Lowry Burgess FA’61, space is the place
BOOKS In Germany, before the war. In the Garden of Beasts
BOOKS Essence of a place. Lost Worlds
PERFORMANCE The high-wire highbrows of Tangle Movement Arts
ARTS CALENDAR
ALUMNI : Profiles
José Manuel Ortega Gil-Fournier C’89 W’89 likes wine—and risk
Alice Bast C’83 is on a mission to make eating safe for celiac sufferers
Dan Markowitz EAS’11 won $10,000 for his one-minute film
Gideon Evans C’93 can never go back to Disney World
Norman Golightly W’94 asks, “Kenya spare a camera?”
Events
Notes
Obituaries