Vol. 99, No. 4
Features
Blood Feuds
A recent symposium at Penn probed the causes, symptoms and solutions of ethnic warfare.
By Samuel Hughes
Going Where Science Leads
Established in 1892 as a museum for anatomic specimens as well as a center for the “increase of original scientific knowledge,” the Wistar Institute today is at the forefront of basic research on cancer, AIDS and other diseases.
By Joan P. Capuzzi Giresi
New Faces
Department of Fine Arts Graduate Faculty.
“No Other Life”
The Mourning of Mario Lanza, Chubby Checker’s twisting rise and fall, a race riot in North Philadelphia and the Phillies’ 1964 “nervous breakdown.” Memories of a boyhood in the city.
By Gerald Early
Departments
From the Editor
Differences.
Letters
Curricular criticism, Caine pro and con, ill-advised illustration, letters on letters.
Notes From the Undergrad
Flea feast.
Alumni Voices
Wedding-bell blues.
Gazetteer
Hospitals not for sale
Talking kids out of risky behavior
Rhodes and Marshall scholarship winners + New center helps students compete for fellowships
FDA seeks to ban IHGT’s Wilson from conducting drug trials
Pre-Hispanic fishing weir discovered in Amazon basin
Wharton West
Trustee George Weiss gives $20 million for scholarships and other needs
Returning the Palestra to its prime
GSFA Dean Gary Hack on chairing the city planning commission
DiIulio to head White House office for faith-based programs
Deep-brain stimulation relieves Parkinson’s symptoms
Off the Shelf
Briefly Noted.
Sports
Record win-streaks in men’s and women’s basketball.
Alumni Profiles
A more in-depth look at some of Penn’s outstanding alumni.
Gary Fagin C’73 | An Artist’s Life, Set to Music
Fred Bowen C’75 | Sports Is the Story
Dr. Robert Fitts C’87 | In the Cards
Dr. Ronald Pope Gr’75 | Dom Sweet Dom
Stuart Resor C’64 | Dry Idea
Alumni Notes
Comings, goings, appointments, promotions, accolades and other personal news
Pennsylmania
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