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Volume 103, No. 2


Features 

Special Report: Presidential Inauguration
Amy Gutmann’s inauguration as the University’s eighth president featured a day of community service, a concert on Hill Field, and a wide-ranging symposium, among other events. In her inaugural speech the president called for a new “Penn Compact.”

Homecoming 2004
Photos from the Gala, the Game, and more. 
Plus:
 Alumni Award of Merit Citations.

Taste Quakers
“Everyone who graduated from Penn is either a doctor, a lawyer or … a food writer, it seems.” Well, not quite, but this alumna soon found she wasn’t the only one—food writer, that is. By Nancy Davidson

Strange Labyrinth
Behind the gift to Penn’s library of a very rare 17th-century book lies the moving story of an alumna scholar’s groundbreaking research and untimely death. By Samuel Hughes


Departments

From the Editor
Letters

FIRST PERSON : Essays
Notes From the UndergradElection Season
Alumni Voices: Name Game
Elsewhere: Learning Japanese
Expert Opinion: A young feminist’s lament

GAZETTEER : News & Sports
Gutmann to new students: Move to Penn “major upgrade”
 Craig Carnaroli named EVP
 Should people with dementia be allowed to vote?
 Rodin to head Rockefeller Foundation
 Sleeping in space
 U.S. News & World Report ranks Penn fourth
 Anniversary I: M&T program at 25
 Frog skin fights bacteria
 Anniversary II: La Casa Latina at five
 NLRB rules against union in Penn case
 Anniversary III: GIC at 20
 Second high-rise renovation completed
 Rybczynski named to Commission of Fine Arts
 Football win streak broken at 17
Dunphy stays at Penn

ALL THINGS ORNAMENTAL : The Arts
Art 
All for Slought
Books Loving Ezra Pound
Film Jon Hurwitz’s multicultural stoners Harold & Kumar
Music Singer-songwriter Gabriel Mann 
Briefly Noted 
Arts Calendar

ALUMNI : Profiles 
“This Land” creator Gregg Spiridellis
Palestra praiser Mikaelyn Austin
Bell ringer Lolita Jackson
Jazz preserver Michael Cuscuna
Apprentice alumni: Fired and firer
Art exhibitionist Sanford Smith

ALUMNI : Events : Notes : Obituaries

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