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Sept.
14, 2000
CAMPUS BUZZ BY SANDY SMITH Reise’s pieces: Prolific and widely-performed composer Jay Reise, professor of music and co-director of Penn Contemporary Music, hits the half-century mark this year. To celebrate the event, the Music Department and Penn Contemporary Music have invited a few of Reise’s friends, including soprano Jody Karin Applebaum, pianists Marc-Andre Hamelin and Jerome Lowenthal, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra bassoonist Charles Ullery and the Leonardo Trio, to perform at an all-Riese concert on Monday, Sept. 25. The concert, which is free — no tickets required — will take place at the Settlement Music School, 416 Queen Street. Visit www.sas.upenn.edu/music for more info. Looking good in black: Black Enterprise magazine recently compiled its first-ever list of the “Top 50 Colleges for African Americans,” and Penn came in at number 34 on the list. The list, which lumped institutions of all types and sizes together, included 27 non-historically-black schools like Penn. Among the nation’s most highly selective universities, only Stanford (10), Columbia (15), Duke (20), Harvard (28) and Johns Hopkins (29) ranked higher. Book report: Back in 1987, when he volunteered for a crisis hotline, Medical School information specialist Steven Capsuto heard the same answer repeatedly when he asked gay teens contemplating suicide what they thought gay people were like: “I only know what I see on TV.” So he decided to check into what it was they saw. The result is “Alternate Channels: The Uncensored Story of Gay and Lesbian Images on Radio and Television, 1930s to the Present” (Random House, 2000), the first comprehensive history of how gays and lesbians have been treated on the tube. Peter Terzian called the book “thorough and compelling” in his Brill’s Content review (August 2000). She’s got more of it goin’ on: You may recall our profile of
Janice Ferebee (SW’98) (Current,
Feb. 26, 1998), the Washingtonian on a mission to rescue young girls.
She’s just published a second book promoting positive self-images.
“Got It Goin’ On II: Power Tools for Girls” picks up where
the first book left off, dealing with social skills, mental, spiritual
and physical fitness, fashion and relationships. Info about both books
can be found on her Web site, www.janiceferebee.com. Ferebee will talk
about her latest book at the Penn Bookstore on Oct. 12.
Penn in ink: As we rush — or crawl — from place to place in our cars, we’re becoming increasingly blasé about breaking traffic laws. In an August 20 Sacramento Bee story examining the phenomenon of guiltless scofflaws, Lawrence Sherman, Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations and director of the Fels Center of Government, suggested that the sense of autonomy people feel behind the wheel is downright intoxicating: “Driving a car becomes almost like alcohol. It suspends inhibitions.” 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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