March|April 2016

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March|April 2016
Volume 114, No. 4


FEATURES

The Small, Good Stories
The Penn Cultural Heritage Center was launched to provide a forum for an “intellectual discussion” of the meaning of heritage and the role of communities in preservation efforts. Then came the Syrian civil war and the rise of ISIS. By Jamie Fisher.
Plus: Teaching art to Syrian and Iraqi refugee children in Jordan. By Melissa Croghan

March Madness Missed
What’s more frustrating than playing Ivy League men’s basketball in the same era as Bill Bradley? Winning the University’s first official Ivy championship the year after he graduated, and then being kept out of postseason play because of a fight between the League and the NCAA. Fifty years later, Penn’s 1965-66 squad still wonders what might have been. By Dave Zeitlin

That Roosevelt
Penn Law professor, legal scholar, and novelist Kermit Roosevelt III is doing his best to live up to the family name—including, in his latest book, by tackling cousin Franklin’s executive order authorizing the confinement of more than 100,000 Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II. By Julia M. Klein

Street Fighter
“Gridlock Sam” Schwartz GCE’70 is an icon in New York’s century-long war with traffic. Can his final campaign reshape the city’s transportation future? By Trey Popp

Readin’, Writin’, Revolution
With the Minerva Project, Ben Nelson W’97 is out to “build the world’s greatest university from scratch.” Should Penn—and other top-tier schools—be worried? By Alyson Krueger


DEPARTMENTS

From the Editor

Letters

 

First Person: Essays

NOTES FROM THE UNDERGRAD Parts of speech

ALUMNI VOICES Gerald’s story, and mine

ELSEWHERE “That old promise of bliss”

EXPERT OPINION Uber and VIM

 

Gazetteer: News & Sports

Hill House to get $80 million renovation

Penn’s Islamic chaplain Kameelah Rashad C’00 GEd ’01

Hamilton ’s Lin-Manuel Miranda to be Commencement speaker

Historic preservation studio challenges neighborhood assumptions

Y-Prize winners get $10,000 in beer money

Q&A on sociologist David Grazian’s American Zoo

Biden’s cancer “moonshot” lifts off at Penn

Sam Mattis’ Olympic hopes; women’s lacrosse is “on a mission”

Scoreboard

 

Arts

PHOTOGRAPHY Barren campus. Without Regard to Sex, Race, or Color

FILM “Father of Philippine Independent Cinema” Kidlak Tahimik WG’67

BOOKSMiddlesex meets Mean Girls” in YA novel None of the Above

POETRY Paul Christensen Gr’73’s “A West Texas Marriage”

BRIEFLY NOTED

ARTS CALENDAR

 

Alumni: Profiles

Matthew Rader WG’11 cultivates the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

Brian Levin C’89 knows a scary amount about all kinds of extremism

John Doman C’66 is still exercising his acting muscle

Beverly Robertson ran the National Civil Rights Museum

 

: Events

: Notes

: Obituaries

 

Window

 

 

 

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