CAMPUS BUZZ
BY SANDY SMITH
Cheaper and later: The people have spoken, and the management of Eat at Joe's listened: as of this month, the retro-diner on Walnut Street will stay open daily until 3 a.m. A new menu, featuring more inexpensive options, will be phased in over the next few weeks. Round-the-clock operation is still a live option, which the company says could happen as soon as April if demand warrants.
Home again at last: The long-running saga of the Pennsylvania Book Center's fate finally reached its happy ending Jan. 11, with the bookstore's opening in the 34th and Sansom streets space last occupied by Sam Goody. The new location feels more spacious than the Center's old home, thanks in part to the ample windows and high ceilings. While the Center wasn't completely settled in on the 11th, it handled the spring textbook rush.
They went Dutch: Penn's women's squash team spent the winter break getting to know each other - and Amsterdam and Dusseldorf - better. While the main purpose of the team's 12-day European sojourn was to get members to bond with each other and work on their game (as if it really needed work: as of press time, the team had a perfect 6-0 record and was ranked third nationally, trailing only Ivy rivals Princeton and Harvard), the players also got time off to enjoy and explore both cities.
Pitchin' in for Philly - again: President Judith Rodin has once again donned her cheerleader's outfit to promote the Philadelphia area as a great place to live, work and do business. Her 30-second TV spot promoting the region's colleges and universities is one of a series produced by WHYY-TV in partnership with Greater Philadelphia First. The announcement, one of a series of five, made its debut during Channel 12's public-affairs programs on Friday evening, Jan. 15, and will air weekly over the next few months.
What's in a name?: What, exactly, is an "A-3"? Other than a Penn payroll classification, no one really knows for sure. Which may be why the first survey question on the A-3 Assembly's revived Web site is "Do you believe the name 'A-3 Assembly' accurately reflects who we are? If not, what would you change it to be?" There's still time to answer the question at the Web site or by e-mail to Donna Arthur (darthur@oyez.law.upenn.edu).
Penn in ink: Why will elderly Baby Boomers be such a drag on the public purse? "The problem is not that there are going to be 70 million baby boomers in 2030," said Frederick J. Warren Professor of Demography Samuel Preston in Newsday Jan. 10. Rather, "it's that they didn't have 210 million children - three each, like their parents did - to help take care of them and to pay the taxes."...And Stephen Steinberg, executive director of the Penn National Commission on Society, Culture and Community, expressed some sympathy for a Massachusetts mayor who is trying to use the law to enforce civility in a Christian Science Monitor article Jan. 14.
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