The Pennsylvania Gazette: July/August 2002

July | August 2oo2

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

Leaving and Coming Back
100 years of Reunion and Commencement coverage.

“Yea-a-a … Who?”
From Class Fights to Spring Flings: a selective guide to Penn traditions.

Alumni Weekend 2002
This year’s version.

Changing Times
Our fourth Centennial timeline: 1961-1981.

The Student View
What our undergraduate columnists were thinking—and saying in the Gazette.

A Museum of One’s Own
Alumni Judy and Laurence Cutler restored a Gilded Age mansion to display their collection from the Golden Age of American illustration. By Susan Frith. Plus: “Lauder’s Neue Jewelbox,” by Margot Horwitz.

Youthland and Everything After
History Professor Michael Zuckerman on the gains and losses of our recently completed “century of the child.” An interview by Samuel Hughes.

D E P A R T M E N T S

From the Editor
Life on Campus

Letters
Hit and misses, pyramids and plagiarism.

Notes From the Undergrad
Esperanza and the Americanas

Alumni Voices
The Magic Pebble

Gazetteer
Advice to graduates: “Risk it” Public schools need remedial work in change What time bestows—and takes away On the meaning—and lack thereof—of racial classification Development and alumni relations VP Virginia Clark resigns “Oh, isn’t it great to be so protected by a man “Inclusion is an indispensable component of excellence” Who’s minding the machines? Wilson steps down as IHGT director MBA student’s murderer receives life sentence Davis earns National Medal of Science for neutrino research.

Off the Shelf
Think of England. Family secrets.
The Future of Ideas. Who will own the Internet?

Sports
Fast and patient wins the race. Plus: Scoreboard.

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

Alumni Profiles
A more in-depth look at some of Penn's outstanding alumni.

Alumni Notes
Comings, goings, appointments, promotions, accolades
and other personal news

Classifieds

Finals
Freshmen v. Sophomores 1905.

Cover illustration by Noah Woods
Vol.100, No. 6
Cover: Illustration by Chris Sharp.
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Last Modified 6/26/02

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