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
FIRST PERSON : Essays
Notes From the Undergrad: Election 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
