
Volume 108, No. 4
Features
The Omnivore’s New Dilemma
(Which exotic University City restaurant should we try tonight?) By Samuel Hughes. PLUS: Four-Wheel Fare. By Trey Popp
Dining a la Penn
Remember the dining halls? You can still get a burger and fries, but pretty much everything else has changed. By Molly Petrilla
Quakers in the Kitchen
Penn alumni offer tips on how to relax and host great parties, eat well without harming the environment, and dine like a gourmet on the cheap.
Architecture of Madness
Chris Payne GAr’96’s photographs evoke the vanished world of state mental hospitals, where inmates could be both “mad and safe.” By John Prendergast
Slouching Towards Elegance
In her new book, Trustee Professor of French Joan DeJean counts the many ways—from padded sofas, to “casual” clothing, to flush toilets—that France taught the world how to make itself comfortable. By Caroline Tiger
Departments
From the Editor
From College Hall
Letters
ESSAYS : First Person
Notes from the Undergrad Hyphenated homme
Alumni Voices Not talking
Elsewhere “I, too, would be the hero of the Jews”
Expert Opinion Words as building materials
GAZETTEER : News & Sports
Eye-opening advance in gene therapy
New SP2 center focuses on “high impact philanthropy”
Weiss $20 million gift will fund four PIK professors
Sarah-Jane Littleford C’09 awarded Rhodes Scholarship
Joshua Bennett C’10 wins Marshall Scholarship
First round of “green grants” announced
Findings
“Engaging Minds” takes PIKs on the road
Legislative haste makes legal waste
Science Cafe examines DNA screening and more
Snow more
Basketball’s woes
ALL THINGS ORNAMENTAL : The Arts
MUSIC Alberto’s song. The Gonzalez Cantata
MUSIC Jennifer Higdon G’92 Gr’94 on her Grammy win
ART Printmaking without borders. Philagrafika 2010
THEATER The stages of Harold Prince C’48 Hon’71
DESIGN Works in paper. Pop Up Architecture
BOOKS Free speech and its costs. Extreme Speech and Democracy
BRIEFLY NOTED
ARTS CALENDAR
ALUMNI : Profiles
Ross Levitt C’97 headed for Haiti when the earthquake struck
Kirbyjon Caldwell WG’77 combines business savvy with soul-saving
Shabnam Rezaei C’95 EAS’95 draws on an international perspective
Diane Burko GFA’69 paints a picture of global warming’s impact
Events
Notes
Obituaries