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Oct.
26, 2000
CAMPUS BUZZ BY SANDY SMITH By students, for students: While student activities are the focal point of the whole Perelman Quadrangle complex, the services that support them are in most cases provided by a professional staff. In Williams Hall, though, the students rule. Latest evidence: the Cafe at the Silfen Student Study Center, now run by Penn Student Agencies. The menu at the cafe has changed only slightly since the students took over, but the changes are significant — a wider selection of juices and snacks, homemade baked goods, more deli-style sandwiches and fewer “gourmet” items. One more difference: Pepsi is out. Coke is in. The prices have also dropped as well. Manager Christopher Tenggardjaja (C’01) explains that PSA cut menu prices in response to student comments. The cafe is open from 8:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays, 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Fridays. Scare your friends!: Or amuse them, or entertain them, or make them go “Hmmm.” The Kelly Writers House is looking for folks in the Halloween mood to perform at the second annual Arts House-Writers House Halloween Concert and Reading Oct. 28. Last year’s inaugural event drew more than 100 people to hear students and faculty read poetry and short stories, play music, stage a monologue from “The Devil’s Advocate” and stage a multi-media production. If you think you’ve got something frightfully good, you too can put it on; e-mail arthouse@dolphin.upenn.edu for more information. Rybczynski drives one in: Having left “Home” in search of “City Life” and “A Clearing in the Distance,” Martin and Margy Meyerson Professor of Urbanism Witold Rybczynski has now turned to tools with his latest book, “One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw” (HarperCollins). The book, which grew out of an essay he wrote on “the best tool of the millennium” for The New York Times Magazine, has been praised in the Times’ Book Review, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Toronto Star (in Rubczinski’s native country) for the entertaining approach it takes to a seemingly trivial object. Hoop dreams: Michael Jordan (C’00) has gone pro — surprise, surprise. The Penn guard has been signed by the Boston Celtics. Your Buzz correspondent hopes he succeeds to the point where in time people will have to ask, “Which one?” Fellow Penn hoopster Ira Bowman (W’96) has also joined the NBA, signing up with the Utah Jazz. At least he won’t have to worry about being confused for another famous basketball player.
Penn in ink: If the cereal aisle at the supermarket seems daunting, imagine how it must feel choosing from the hundreds of different ways people now get campaign news and information. The variety of sources, from Jay Leno to the Internet, let voters sift information more finely. “There are different information patterns across different tiers of voters,” Annenberg School Dean Kathleen Hall Jamieson told The Boston Globe Oct. 1, adding that the wide number of sources lets voters “plug in and out, with 24-hour access.” 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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