Volume 107, No. 5
Features
The Vital Thread of Tom Sugrue
In The Origins of the Urban Crisis and now Sweet Land of Liberty, Penn historian Thomas Sugrue has shattered the conventional narrative about the struggle for Civil Rights in this country. The new book was published on the same day a black man was elected president; still, says Sugrue, “We’ve got a lot of overcoming to do.” By Nathaniel Popkin
Ultimate Fundraising Championship
Philanthropy at the end of a fist. Grad students beyond thunderdome. Chin-rattlers. Brain-shakers. Welcome to Fight Night. By Trey Popp
Intelligent Designs
Three Penn alumni are making their mark on fashion with clothing and accessories that are both thoroughly functional and very easy on the eyes. By Aaron Short
Departments
ESSAYS : First Person
Notes From the Undergrad Pity the Lizard Girl
Alumni Voices Drawing from life
Elsewhere “The tribe has spoken”
Expert Opinion How to avoid the next Iraq War
GAZETTEER : News & Sports
Building the “muscles of citizenship”
Answering autism’s “false prophets”
Findings
Remembering Leonore Annenberg Hon’85
Class of 2013 to “read” Eakins’ The Gross Clinic
Paul Krugman on the “debt deflation” recession
The latest on Penn and the economy
Google CEO to speak at Commencement
Computer-graphics center opens in old ENIAC home
New dental dean named
Bilsky on Miller: “Let’s be patient”
ALL THINGS ORNAMENTAL : The Arts
EXHIBITION Reconstructing the Maya’s “Painted Metaphors”
BOOKS Penn’s “chick-lit” triangle
BOOKS Role models. Extraordinary Women from the Muslim World
INTERVIEW Justin Marozzi G’95 on The Way of Herodotus
ARTS CALENDAR
ALUMNI : Profiles
Mock-mutineer—and real-astronaut—Garrett Reisman EAS’90 W’90
Penn Alumni launches “speed networking” events
Afghan aid-worker Aleksandra Markovich C’08
Our Lady of Victory director Tim Chambers C’85
Charter-schools CEO Eva Moskowitz C’86
Basketball guru Dick Harter Ed’53
ALUMNI : Events : Notes : Obituaries
