August 30, 2001
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CAMPUS BUZZ
BY SANDY SMITH
Hot ’bots: The UPennalizers — the Engineering School’s robot-soccer team — returned from this year’s RoboCup tournament in Seattle with big grins on their faces. That’s because they turned in a much improved performance over last year, coming in third behind Australia’s University of New South Wales and cross-state tech powerhouse Carnegie Mellon University. The third-place finish was especially sweet because it came against France’s Laboratoire Robotique de Paris, which sent Penn packing in the early rounds of last year’s competition. In addition, the UPennalizers took second place in the competition’s technical portion, the RoboCup Challenge, trailing only UNSW.
Watch your step on Spruce Street…: A repaving and streetscape improvement project on Spruce Street between 34th and 38th streets has the sidewalks torn up and the street closed to westbound traffic from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. weekdays and some weekends. When the project is completed sometime around Oct. 20, the street will have more trees, better lighting, brand-new sidewalks and pavement, and other changes to improve traffic flow, including bike lanes and curb adjustments.
…and on 40th Street: Meanwhile, on the west edge of campus, the City of Philadelphia is installing new storm sewers. Currently, 40th Street is closed to traffic from Walnut to Locust streets. According to Facilities Services, no completion date has been set for the project.
Now in D.C.: The Architectural Archives’ retrospective on the work of turn-of-the-century architect William L. Price, which opened last May at the Arthur Ross Gallery, has gone to the big time of design — the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., where it is now on display through March 24. The exhibit returns this neglected architect, whose work paved the way for modernist architecture and design, to his place in the architectural pantheon alongside Louis Sullivan, Frank Furness and Frank Lloyd Wright.
Food bites: Xando in Sansom Common has gotten a bit more Cosí with the addition of a sandwich bar to the coffee and pastries. The remodeled coffee bar now includes a wood-burning oven, where the sandwich bread and flatbread is baked fresh daily…The line at La Petite Creperie on Sansom Street should get shorter this fall, when the popular food cart expands into the former Pronto! space in Houston Hall…And there’s a new take-out option coming to campus soon: Picnic, which will open in the Left Bank later this fall. The proprietor is Anne-Marie Lasher, former executive chef and co-owner of Fork in Old City.
Get tested: Penn offers free, anonymous HIV testing for the campus and West Philadelphia community at an on-campus site at 39th and Chestnut streets. For an appointment, call 215-563-0658 and state that you want to be tested at the Penn site.
What’s the buzz? Tell us what’s happening! Give us a call at 215-898-1423, send e-mail to current@pobox.upenn.edu or drop a line to the Current at 200 Sansom East/6106.
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