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Oct.
12 , 2000
CAMPUS BUZZ BY SANDY SMITH ARCH comments: We now have a name for the building formerly known as the Christian Association, at least for the time being: The ARCH (Arts, Research and Culture House). The new name was unveiled at an opening ceremony Oct. 2 by Vice Provost for University Life Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum. The lucky student who suggested it, Eric Guerro (C’01), got $500 for his effort. Even luckier are the cultural and performing-arts groups who got office space in the building, along with a new Provost’s Office initiative, the Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships. Provost Robert Barchi, who also spoke at the ceremony along with President Judith Rodin, confessed that he would have loved to move his office to the building, too. Chowtime in U-City: This year, the University City District’s “3rd Thursday” promotion spotlights the area’s dining scene, with 2-for-1 dinner specials at participating restaurants, including the Ivy Grille, Mad Mex, the Marigold Dining Room, the Palladium, The Restaurant School, Shula’s Steak 2, Sitar India and Zocalo. The specials are good on the third Thursday of every month from Oct. 19 to Dec. 21. Coupons are available at www.gowest.org and will also be published in The Daily Pennsylvanian, the University City Review, Philadelphia Weekly, the City Paper and Philadelphia magazine. For more information, visit www.gowest.org or call 1-888-GOWEST-7. Meltdown: Where are we going to get our daily dose of Purple Passion Pills and Vanilla Cream Stout now? The board of directors of Jeremy’s MicroBatch Ice Creams Inc. voted to pull the plug on the operation Oct. 3. A report in The Philadelphia Inquirer said that anemic sales and continuing losses led to Jeremy Kraus’ (W’98) company’s demise. Not what they were looking for: In this space last issue, we reported on recent discoveries beneath the Black Sea made by Assistant Professor of Anthropology Frederik Hiebert and colleagues, describing their find as “concrete evidence of the flood described in the book of Genesis.” Our friends at the University of Pennsylvania Museum asked us to make clear that the purpose of the expedition was not to confirm the account in Genesis, but to further explore the ancient civilizations of central Asia and the Black Sea region. The researchers were quoted in the newspaper article we cited as noting that the natural event that led to the flooding of these Black Sea communities resembled cataclysmic floods described not only in Genesis but in other creation stories.
Penn in ink: Martin and Margy Meyerson Professor of Urbanism Witold Rybczynski wrote a spirited defense of the World War II memorial planned for Washington’s National Mall in the Sept. 21 Wall Street Journal. “Contrary to the pronouncements of critics and opponents,” he said, the memorial “is in precisely the right place.” He also praised its stripped-down classicism, which harkens back to the style of former Penn architecture professor Paul Cret. 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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