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March
23, 2000
CAMPUS BUZZ BY SANDY SMITH One more for the board: Michael Masch, executive director of the Office of Budget and Management Analysis and assistant to the president, will once again crunch numbers to serve the public. This time, it’s as a member of the city Board of Education, to which he was named by Mayor John Street. The two worked together when Street was a city councilman and Masch a senior financial analyst in the Goode administration; Masch went on to serve as Mayor Ed Rendell’s budget director before coming to Penn. Hummus-hummus-hummus! Get ready to add another region to University City’s collection of international eateries. A new Middle Eastern restaurant is on track to open next month in the Hamilton Village Shops space that formerly housed Cool Peppers. The restaurant will be run by the folks who operate Bitar’s, the popular Mediterranean restaurant on Federal Street. The latest fashion scoop: Designer Nicole Miller loved Philadelphia so much, she put it on a scarf and necktie. Now she’s done the same for Jeremy’s Microbatch Ice Cream, the gourmet creation of Jeremy Kraus (W’98). Guests at a gala unveiling party at her shop at the Bellevue March 15 were able to, um, scarf down all the Jeremy’s Microbatch they wanted along with other delicacies. Proceeds from the event benefited the endowed scholarship Kraus established to support future entrepreneurs from Penn. Put in your two cents’ worth: Can you spare a penny or two? If you can, Caring About Sharing would appreciate it. The Mantua-based community service agency is the beneficiary of this year’s Penn VIPS Penny Drive, which runs through the end of the month. For more information about the drive, including drop-off points, e-mail sammapp@pobox.upenn.edu or call 215-898-2020. Richly deserved: Buzz is particularly pleased to salute this year’s
Women of Color Awards recipients, who were honored at a luncheon March
3. All the honorees —undergraduate Stephanie Maldonado (C’00),
graduate student Yoonmee Chang, African-American Resource Center
Staff Assistant Afi Roberson and Helen O. Dickens Lifetime Achievement
Award recipient Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum, Vice Provost for
University Life — have done great service for the University and
the surrounding community.
Penn in ink: What invention caused the greatest transformation in office work? The typewriter, according to History Professor Walter Licht. In a Christian Science Monitor story March 13 on how work has changed over the last millennium, he said, “Between 1895 and 1905, there may have been a greater revolution in handling information in the office than the Information Age today” — all because of the typewriter...According to a story in the Ventura County Star March 12, cultural facilities can revive dying downtowns. But, cautions Mark Stern, professor of social welfare, there has to be a downtown worth reviving first: “If you’re trying to create it out of nothing, you have a chance of ending up with nothing.” What's the buzz? Tell us what's happening! Call us at 215-898-1426, send e-mail to current@ pobox.upenn.edu or drop a line to the Current at 200 Sansom East/6106.
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