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April
6, 2000
CAMPUS BUZZ BY SANDY SMITH And now, the commercial release: “Justice Talking” is going live. Kathryn Kolbert’s National Public Radio talkfest on constitutional issues is spawning a call-in sibling, “Justice Talking Live,” which will air at 9 p.m. Sundays. Though the show will originate at WXPN, the station will not air it, as it is intended for syndication to commercial radio stations across the country. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, about 50 stations have signed on so far, but no local station has agreed to carry it yet. One applicant’s already been rejected: Viewers of HBO’s “The Sopranos” have already learned the fate of one (fictional) would-be student’s application to Penn. During a recent episode, Meadow Soprano found out that she had been turned down by Penn in the course of reviewing her college acceptances. (Despite her mom’s pulling out the stops Mob-style to obtain a glowing reference for her, a move she knew nothing about, she was wait-listed at Georgetown.) Dr. Goldmann makes a house call…: No, Associate Professor of General Internal Medicine David Goldmann isn’t going back to the days of the general practitioner. But he has compiled a wealth of medical information that you can use in the comfort of your own home. Goldmann served as editor-in-chief of the new “American College of Physicians Complete Home Medical Guide” (DK Publishing, February), a 1,100-page reference book the Chicago Tribune called “an impressive blend of understandable text and informative graphics.” …and Dr. Stevens gives her opinion: A new documentary, “Healthcare Crisis: Who’s at Risk?”, slated to air on PBS June 8, asks, among other questions, why the United States spends so much on health care yet has so little to show for it in terms of basic indicators such as overall life expectancy and infant mortality. One of the academic experts weighing in on the subject is History and Sociology of Science Professor Rosemary Stevens, who surveyed the same terrain in her book “In Sickness and In Wealth.”
Penn in ink: Guess who urged Yale Economics Professor Robert Shiller to write his bearish new book “Irrational Exuberance” (see “What’s On,” page 7)? None other than Professor of Finance Jeremy “Stocks for the Long Run” Siegel. While he told USA Today March 16 that he is still “happy with the overall market,” he too can see, as Shiller does, an extended period of time — even two decades — when stocks produce no real returns…Whassuuup? Thanks to a clever short film-turned-Budweiser ad, it’s become the latest term to jump from black slang into the general language. But listen carefully — there’s still something distinctive in the way the brothers say it. As Elijah Anderson, the Charles and William L. Day Professor of the Social Sciences, told The Washington Post March 14, “There is something quite ritualized about it and very specific to black people, this whole issue of ‘what’s up,’ the way that says informality, unity, we are a people.” 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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