Volume 103, No.1
Features
Learning and Leading
Penn’s new president is a gifted scholar, an inspiring teacher, and an effective administrator who knows how to listen and when to act.
By John Prendergast
Signature Style
As he heads West for a teaching position in the other Washington, Paul Steven Miller C’83 looks back on a decade defending the rights of people with disabilities as an EEOC Commissioner—and a lifetime battling for his own.
By Lewis I. Rice
Hard Questions, Uneasy Answers
Reflecting on his recent experience in Kurdistan (from which he wrote three earlier letters for the Gazette), a leading scholar of ethnopolitical conflict ponders Iraq’s future.
By Brendan O’Leary
Growing Movement
Community Supported Agriculture is the real traditional agriculture, says Aimee Kocis C’99, whose Charlestown Cooperative Farm supplies 105 local families with fresh fruits and vegetables.
By Nancy Moffitt
Writing For Her Life
Stephanie Williams C’92 was determined to fulfill her ambition to write and publish a novel before cancer killed her. With some help from her friends, she succeeded.
By Caroline Hwang.
Plus: An excerpt from Williams’ novel, Enter Sandman.
Departments
From the Editor
From College Hall
Letters
FIRST PERSON : Essays
Notes From the Undergrad: The Glee Club’s Asian odyssey
Alumni Voices: A teacher’s lesson
Elsewhere: Exile’s return
Expert Opinion: Chatzky’s commandments
GAZETTEER : News & Sports
NLRB rules against grad-student unions
The truth is, lying political-ads work
Verdict: Stiffer sentences don’t deter crime
Parting words from Provost Barchi
Dual honors for dinosaur-expert Peter Dodson
Brains over bite
Difficult balance: Protecting lives, preserving rights
Electronic nose sniffs out disease
On a roll: HUP honored for eighth year
Football: Can they do it again?
Athletics’ AstroTurf auction
ALL THINGS ORNAMENTAL : The Arts
Art At 40, ICA looks back
Books Negro League Baseball. The business of black baseball
Books The Numbers Game. Stat-boys of summer
Books Chick Lit, Quaker style
Theater The Abbey comes to Annenberg
Recordings Dilettante. Debut delivers
Briefly Noted
Arts Calendar
ALUMNI : Profiles
Charles Soule will play—actually, write—your song
Martha Pollack’s Pearl puts artificial intelligence to work
Edward Peeples’ research preserves “minutiae” of school lockout
Phyllis Murray knows what hasn’t changed since Brown v. Board
Ed McDonough’s slow road to fast cars
ALUMNI : Notes : Obituaries
WindowSweet Summer Celluloid