Alumni Voices:
The Deluxe Edition
Memories of Penn, from the Class of 1930 to the Class of 2001. WEB EXCLUSIVE: Send your memories.

Decade by Decade
Summaries of Gazette issues at 10-year intervals during our 100 years of publication, from the first eight-page issue, in November 1902, to October 1992.
Centennial Celebration

Gazette
Honored by CASE
The Pennsylvania Gazette has received awards from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) in three categories for 2002.

Two articles written by Gazette senior editor Samuel Hughes were included among the Best Articles of the Year, judged by CASE and the Chronicle of Higher Education. They are: "An Affair to Remember," which recounts the controversy and long-lasting impact of the firing of a Socialist-leaning Wharton School professor named Scott Nearing C'06 G'09 in 1915, won a Gold Medal. "Speech!" on linguist Noam Chomsky C'48 G'51 Gr'55 Hon'84 won a Silver Medal.

Those articles and three others ("Dinosaurs Lost and Found," by John Prendergast C'80; and "The Moral Classroom" and "The Particle Sleuths," by Susan Frith) earned the Gazette a Silver Medal for Periodical Staff Writing.

Finally, the Gazette won a Gold Medal for Visual Design in Print for the illustration accompanying the story, "Man of Letters."

F E A T U R E S

Make It Plain!
In the pulpit and the classroom, on TV and radio talk-shows, in newspaper columns and scholarly journals, Michael Eric Dyson “brings the noise” to the “United States of Amnesia.” By Susan Frith

Laugh It Up
For three young alumni trying to make it in New York, comedy is serious business. By Ted Mann

The Good Citizen
When asked why he gave, the late Walter Annenberg—Penn’s largest benefactor, who for years headed the list of Most Generous Americans—always said, “Because it’s the right thing to do.” By Joan Capuzzi Giresi

Lines in the Sand
Graduate alumnus and director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute Harvey Sicherman on war in Iraq and peace in the Middle East. Interview by Samuel Hughes

From the Editor

Letters

Notes From the Undergrad
Ticket to diversity.

Alumni Voices
The Queen of Obscurica meets her match.

Gazetteer
What “blind justice” misses McNeil Center for Early American Studies gets $6 million University of Alabama’s Marjorie Jeffcoat named dental school dean Gifts Revisited: Penn and Philadelphia Health Care Trust dissolve $100 million agreement What killed the woolly mammoth? Former SAS Dean Rosemary Stevens’ “parallel career” as a painter Penn ordered to pay $2.9 million to vet school professor Magical “birth brick” discovered at Abydos in Egypt.

Off the Shelf
A Matter of Degrees. Taking temperature’s measure.
Can’t Be Satisfied. A life of Muddy Waters.

Sports
Challenging road ahead for men’s basketball. Plus: Scoreboard.

Calendar
Events of interest—on campus and around the world.

THE ALUMNI

Alumni Profiles

Alumni Notes

Obituaries

Classifieds

Window
The view from Huntsman Hall.

Vol.101, No. 4
Cover: Illustration by Andrea Ventura
© 2003 The Pennsylvania Gazette Last modified 02/28/03