Volume 109, No. 5
Features
Anatomy of an Uprising
As rebellion rocked Egypt in early 2011, several Penn scholars had unusually intimate perspectives on the action. By Trey Popp
Plus: Penn students react to the uprisings
Shooting Big Changes
Photographer Tara Todras-Whitehill C’00 EAS’00 has captured some astonishing images of the uprisings in Egypt and Libya. Who knows where her next ones will be from? Q&A by Samuel Hughes
Flawed Founder
James Wilson signed the Declaration of Independence and was a key architect of the US Constitution, helped found Penn Law School, and served as one of the first justices of the Supreme Court. He was also a reckless land-speculator—jailed more than once for debt—who died a fugitive. By Dennis Drabelle
Journalism, Jews, and Jeffrey Goldberg
College alumnus Jeffrey Goldberg’s reporting from the Middle East has garnered a slew of awards and an invitation to come and chat with Fidel Castro. Just don’t tell his kids he dropped out of Penn. By Jordana Horn
Penn Theatre: A Work in Three Acts
Theatre has a long, rich—and somewhat obscure—history at the University. A new initiative aims to help Penn’s professional, academic, and student performing arts entities do more to work together and raise their collective visibility on campus and beyond. By Molly Petrilla
Departments
From the Editor
From College Hall
Letters
First Person: Essays
Notes from the Undergrad Youthful or naive?
Alumni Voices Fresh starts
Elsewhere “No one had anywhere to be, so we stayed at the bar”
Expert Opinion Pussycat v. Tiger
Gazetteer: News & Sports
Undergrads help West Philadelphia schoolkids gain financial savvy
Far-afield trip: SP2 students visit sex-workers’ collective in India
Wharton team advances to international wine-tasting contest
Denzel Washington takes role as Penn’s 255th Commencement speaker
Annenberg’s Barbie Zelizer on images of impending death
David Brooks on the mysteries of perception
Making History campaign tops $3 billion
Class connects current students to black history at Penn
Basketball: men & women looking to the future
Scoreboard
Arts
INTERVIEW The satiric science fiction of James Morrow C’69
EXHIBITION Renaissance city maps at the Library’s Kamin Gallery
INTERVIEW Alumni create online home for fiction in Storyville
EXHIBITION Girl Culture at the Arthur Ross Gallery
BOOKS Broadway, from baby onward. Showtime
BRIEFLY NOTED
ARTS CALENDAR
Alumni Profiles
DJ, guitarist—and classics-scholar—Corey Brennan C’81
The Class of 1811 in profile
SNL’s newest star, Miley mimic Vanessa Bayer C’04
Endorsement deal-maker Michael Balser C’90
Events
Notes
Obituaries