Alumni Voices:
The Deluxe Edition
Memories of Penn, from the Class of 1930 to the Class of 2001. WEB EXCLUSIVE: Send your memories.

Decade by Decade
Summaries of Gazette issues at 10-year intervals during our 100 years of publication, from the first eight-page issue, in November 1902, to October 1992.
Centennial Celebration

Gazette
Honored by CASE
The Pennsylvania Gazette has received awards from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) in three categories for 2002.

Two articles written by Gazette senior editor Samuel Hughes were included among the Best Articles of the Year, judged by CASE and the Chronicle of Higher Education. They are: "An Affair to Remember," which recounts the controversy and long-lasting impact of the firing of a Socialist-leaning Wharton School professor named Scott Nearing C'06 G'09 in 1915, won a Gold Medal. "Speech!" on linguist Noam Chomsky C'48 G'51 Gr'55 Hon'84 won a Silver Medal.

Those articles and three others ("Dinosaurs Lost and Found," by John Prendergast C'80; and "The Moral Classroom" and "The Particle Sleuths," by Susan Frith) earned the Gazette a Silver Medal for Periodical Staff Writing.

Finally, the Gazette won a Gold Medal for Visual Design in Print for the illustration accompanying the story, "Man of Letters."

F E A T U R E S

Cutting Through the Smoke
Caryn Lerman and her colleagues at the Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center are hot on the trail of biological, psychological, and social means to counter tobacco’s addictive power. By Samuel Hughes

Second Time Around
A program offered through the College of General Studies allows retirees—Penn alumni and others—to audit courses in the School of Arts and Sciences. By Kathryn Levy Feldman

Learning to See Lancaster Avenue
One day, a physician interrupted his grim commute to campus from Philadelphia’s western suburbs and discovered a new world. Photos by John Hansen-Flaschen. Text by Samuel Hughes

Spreading the Words
A century after University Museum archaeologists uncovered thousands of tablets bearing the earliest known form of writing and 25 years after efforts began to compile a dictionary of the language, the Penn Sumerian Dictionary Project is going online. By Susan Frith

Homecoming 2003
Game photos and more from Homecoming’s 50th anniversary.

From the Editor

Letters

Notes From the Undergrad
The key to growing up.

From College Hall
Countering terror with knowledge.

Alumni Voices
On guard at Armageddon.

Gazetteer
Faculty “teach-in” and students march against war on Iraq Five
charged in assault on Princeton debater NLRB rules for grad-student
union elections Alumni in the media gather in New York for first
“summit” Hassenfeld and Fishers give $11.5 million for Quad
renovations Wharton’s $140 million Huntsman Hall opens
Fewer nurses means more patient deaths 2003 Writers House
Fellows: Bernstein, Anderson, and Sontag New furniture—and
more—for Hamilton House Penn and Citizens Bank launch
$28 million neighborhood initiative Spinning a new Web site

Off the Shelf
Confederacy of Silence. Memories and murder.

Sports
Ivy champs in football. Plus: Scoreboard.

Calendar
Events of interest—on campus and around the world.

THE ALUMNI

Awards of Merit and Citations

Alumni Profiles

Alumni Notes

Obituaries

Chaim Potok’s Gift to Penn:
Pushing the “frontiers of thought”
By D. S. Neil Van Leeuwen C’00

Classifieds

Window
At home with the Writers House Al Filreis.

Vol.101, No. 3
Cover: Illustration by Anastasia Vasilakis.
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