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News, Ideas and Conversations from the University of Pennsylvania Nov. 12, 2009
Penn Current Home Latest News Research Features Interviews Ask Benny News Briefs At Work With For the Record Out and About Publication Schedule RSS Feeds Penn Current is on Twitter What's On Event listings On Nov. 17 at 7 p.m., catch an I-House screening of Jennifer Maytorena Taylor's film, "New Muslim Cool." What do you think? Send us your ideas and comments to current@pobox.upenn.edu Penn Current Editorial Staff Manager of Internal Communications: Tanya Barrientos Managing Editor: Heather A. Davis Staff Writer: Greg Johnson	For The Record Julian Francis Abele Abele, the first African-American graduate of what is now Penn’s Graduate School of Fine Arts, was chief designer for the Horace Trumbauer architecture firm responsible for the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Read more ... The Pirates’ Ball The annual Pirates’ Ball marked the end of the teasing of first-year students. At the ball, sophomore, junior and senior women dressed in pirate costumes and performed songs and sketches for first-years. Read more ... Penn-Princeton football In 1892, Penn’s football team won its first victory over Princeton, which came only after 16 straight years of defeat at the hands of the Tigers. Read more ... William Carlos Williams This med school graduate is also one of the country’s most well-known and influential modern writers, with more than 40 volumes of poetry, short stories, novels and plays to his name. Read more ... More Current Features “The Penn Graduate” Move-in W.E.B. Du Bois' "The Philadelphia Negro" Early days of Penn baseball Wharton Centennial Hey Day Penn’s 1979 Final Four Team The Potts Mansion	Penn Current Readership Survey Win an iPod! We would like to get your feedback on the Penn Current's overall effectiveness and appeal. Please take a few moments to take our survey. Search Penn Current View Current Archives Other Useful Sites Penn Homepage Penn Digest News Center Research at Penn Arts at Penn Penn@Work U@Penn Jobs@Penn Staff Directory Campus Maps Library Transportation College of Liberal and Professional Studies University Archives Penn Athletics Penn Recreation Human Resources Almanac World Cafe Live University City District Quoted Recently "It does somewhat go against the other messages that we give--'don't drink, don't smoke, don't put anything foreign or toxic into your body, but take this vaccine.'" —Neil Fishman, director of the Department of Healthcare Epidemiology and Infection Control at UPHS, on convincing pregnant women to get the flu shot. (Philadelphia Inquirer, Oct. 30, 2009)

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