UNIVERSITY of PENNSYLVANIA

Tuesday,April 4, 2000Volume 46 Number 27www.upenn.edu/almanac/

IN THIS ISSUE2 Senate: SEC Agenda;

Thanks to Penn’s Way3 Leaving; Deaths4 Museum Groundbreaking

and Special Exhibition6 Open Enrollment;

Wind Ensemble’s CD7 Update; CrimeStats8 Honorary Degree

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The University of Penn-sylvania will award sixhonorary degrees at its244th Commencement, onMonday, May 22, atFranklin Field.

In addition to SeamusHeaney, poet, critic andtranslator, whose selectionwas announced by Presi-dent Judith Rodin inAlmanac March 28, the re-cipients and the degreesthey will receive are:

John N. Bahcall, Ph.D.,Richard Black Professor ofNatural Sciences at the Insti-tute for Advanced Study inPrinceton; Doctor of Science.

Mary Douglas, D.Phil.,retired professor of socialanthropology, London Uni-versity; Doctor of HumaneLetters.

Ronald Dworkin, LL.B.,Quain Professor of Jurispru-dence at University CollegeLondon and Sommer Profes-sor of Law and Philosophyat NYU; Doctor of Laws.

Wynton Marsalis, Pul-itzer Prize winning jazz art-ist, composer, and educator;Doctor of Music.

The Honorable EdwardG. Rendell, C’65, formermayor of Philadelphia;Doctor of Laws.

For the recipients’ pro-files, see page 8.

SAS 2000 Dean’s Forum: John UpdikeJohn Updike, world renowned novelist, poet,

essayist and literary critic will be reading from hismost recent novel, Gertrude and Claudius, animagined prequel to Shakespeare’s Hamlet, onApril 13, at 4:30 p.m., Room 17 Logan Hall.

John Updike is the great contemporary chroni-cler of the American middle class. He is the mas-ter of four genres: novel, short story, poetry andessay. In each, he deploys his exquisitely lyricalstyle and remarkable intellectual engagement withAmerica’s moral and spiritual problems to probethe inner lives of families and the mundane con-cerns of husband, wife, children, home and job.The author of numerous best-selling books, hispopular reputation rests primarily on his work as anovelist. In his celebrated tetralogy about Harry“Rabbit” Angstrom, he created one of the immor-tal characters of American literature.

John Updike was born in 1932 in Shillington, PA. He was an English major at Harvard andeditor of the Lampoon. The New Yorker published his first professional story in 1954 and contin-ues to regularly publish his poems, stories, essays and reviews. In his most recent novel, Gertrudeand Claudius, Updike takes everything he has learned about modern familial dysfunction andmasterfully applies it to Elsinore Castle. “The book,” says Richard Eder of The New York Times,“illuminates questions about Shakespeare, about what a classic means and also the unexploredhills and forests that lie on either side of the path art pushes through them.”

The SAS Dean’s Forum offers the University community and the general public theopportunity to meet with leading intellectual figures that exemplify the liberal arts tradi-tion. The Dean’s Forum also recognizes outstanding undergraduate and graduate studentsin the arts and sciences for their academic performance and intellectual promise.

This program is free and open to the University community and the general public. For moreinformation, contact Carrie Stavrakos at cstavrak@ben.dev.upenn.edu or (215) 898-5262.

In addition, today, Dr. Daniel Traister, curator of Research Services of the AnnenbergRare Book and Manuscript Library, will give a talk, U&S: Updike Reads Shakespeare, at 4p.m. at Kelly Writers House.

John Updike

In Graduate Rankings, Some Move Up, Some Hold SteadyThe annual U.S. News & World Report

rankings of “America’s Best GraduateSchools” in the magazine’s April 10 issue showthat four of Penn’s schools moved up in thestandings including two that showed dramaticimprovement—Social Work and GraduateSchool of Education (last year’s rankings arein parentheses).• #2 School of Veterinary Medicine (#3)• #11 School of Social Work (#18)• #11 Graduate School of Education (#20)• #33 School of Engineering and Applied

Science (#35)Three schools at Penn retained their po-

sition:• #2 School of Medicine• #2 Nursing• #12 Law School

U.S. News does not rank all schools allyears. Nor does it rank Arts and Sciences asa unit, but gives selected individual disci-plines. Among the six departments of SASthat the magazine does rank, five at Pennmade the top twenty:

—#9 Economics and Psychology—#11 English—#12 History and SociologyGSFA’s department of Architecture

ranked #9.

U.S. News began ranking graduate pro-grams in 1987. The magazine’s rankings arereportedly based on a combination of objec-tive and reputational measurement.

Wharton is ranked #3 (#2) but in the spe-cialty programs Finance was ranked #1.In the specialties of the MBA programsWharton placed in the top ten for:

—#1 Finance—#2 Marketing, and Entrepreneurship—#3 International Business—#4 Quantitative Analysis—#5 Accounting, General Management—#7 Production/Operations Management,and—#8 Management Information Systemsand in Nonprofit Organizations.

In addition, the Executive MBA Programsranked #2.

In the School of Nursing specialties thatranked in the top ten are:

—#1 Nurse Practitioner—Adult, and inGerontological Specialties—#2 Nursing Service, AdministrationClinical Nurse Specialist Adult/Medical-Surgical, and Psychiatric/Mental Healthspecialties—#4 Nurse Practitioner in Family, and Pe-diatric specialties

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SENATE From the Senate Office Appointment Extension: Dean Fonseca of DentalMedPresident Judith Rodin and Provost Robert Barchi announced that Dean Ray Fonseca of

the School of Dental Medicine has agreed to accept an extension of his term as Dean. Onthe advice of the School’s Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility, they willrecommend to the Trustees that his term be extended two years, to June 30, 2003.

“As noted in the 1995 report of the Dean’s Review Committee, the School of DentalMedicine under Ray’s leadership achieved ‘the near-impossible,’ reversing negative trendsin student and faculty recruitment, developing substantive new programs and introducingpatient-centered clinical service. In the years since that report the school has continued tomake tremendous strides. The extension of Ray’s appointment will help to ensure the suc-cessful completion of a number of developments now underway—the construction of theShattner Center, an increase in the size of the school’s standing faculty, the implementationof lifelong learning programs and web-based consumer and professional education pro-grams, continued work on ‘virtual reality’-based teaching for dental students, and the ex-pansion in dual degree opportunities and in the growth of the Dental Care Network,” thePresident and Provost said.

The following agenda is published inaccordance with the Faculty Senate Rules.Questions may be directed to Carolyn Burdoneither by telephone at (215) 898-6943 orby e-mail at burdon@pobox.upenn.edu.

Agenda ofSenate Executive Committee Meeting

Wednesday, April 5, 2000, 3-5 p.m.

1. Approval of the minutes of February 2, 20002. Chair’s Report3. Past Chair’s Report on activities of the

Academic Planning and Budget Committeeand on the Capital Council

4. Senate Committee on CommitteesNominations to Committees for 2000-2001

5. Informal discussion with President Rodin6. Senate Committee on Administration Report7. Senate Committee on the Faculty recommen-

dation on a Graduate School of Fine ArtsProposal for Practice Faculty

8. Other new business9. Adjournment by 5 p.m.

Thanks toPenn’s Way VolunteersDear Members of the Penn Community:

I am thrilled by the spectacular suc-cess of the Penn’s Way 2000 Campaign,which far exceeded its $300,000 goal,raising $388,298 for area organizations.

That not only reflects the generosityof more than 1,600 Penn faculty and staffwho contributed to this year’s campaign,it also clearly demonstrates the wisdomof putting dedicated and creative Pennvolunteer coordinators and facilitatorsback in charge of our annual charitabledrive.

Penn’s Way 2000 brought a renewedsense of spirit and community back tocharitable giving on campus. Throughweekly raffles, breakfasts, and other oc-casions for personalized contact, our vol-unteers rallied the Penn community togive generously to organizations that pro-vide critical assistance to so many people.

Moreover, Penn’s Way 2000 illus-trated the capacity of the University, asthe largest private-sector employer inPhiladelphia, to act as a major force forpositive change. In this instance, the Penncommunity collectively has made a tre-mendous impact on area charities that willbe felt for years to come.

Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “What liesbehind us and what lies before us are tinymatters compared to what lies within us.”

We know within Penn’s faculty andstaff lies a wealth of goodness. So manyof you take time from impossibly busyschedules and personal obligations to per-form acts of kindness—as teachers, men-tors, and healers—throughout our city.

By tapping that vein of goodness, thevolunteers for Penn’s Way 2000 broughtout the best of our Penn community. Ev-ery one of you has my deepest and en-during thanks.

—Judith Rodin, President

Ad Hoc Committee on Sweatshop LaborRecommendationsThe following letter was sent to President Rodin by Howard Kunreuther,Chair of the Ad Hoc Committee on Sweatshop Labor, on March 30.

The Ad Hoc Committee on Sweatshop Labor is disappointed with the responses from both the FairLabor Association and the Workers Rights Consortium to the letters you sent them. Neither organiza-tion has adequately addressed the committee’s greatest concern: balanced representation of colleges anduniversities on their governing boards. As we said in our report, Penn’s membership is contingent onthis point, and we do not feel confident that either organization has responded sufficiently as indicatedbelow.FLA: Sam Brown’s commitment to “take into consideration” future university involvement in the FLAfalls far short of our expectations. The FLA may be discussing this issue in a few weeks at their nextExecutive Board meeting. Until they make a strong commitment to balanced representation on theirBoard, the committee believes that Penn should not consider joining the FLA.WRC: The WRC’s response fails to make a sufficiently firm commitment to address the composition ofthe Governing Board at the founding conference on April 7. The WRC’s response is promising, giventheir “guarantee that at least half of the Board will represent the college and university community.”Until they make a strong commitment to balanced representation on their Board the committee believesthat Penn should not consider joining the WRC.

Following discussion on the adequacy of the WRC’s response, the committee expressed stronginterest in having an active role in their founding conference on April 7. We would like you or someonewho you designate to make an active effort to engage the WRC in an attempt to, at a minimum, permitPenn to have one or two representatives attend the April 7 conference.

In light of the recent adoption of our Code of Workplace Conduct for University of Pennsylva-nia Apparel Licensees as official University policy, the committee restates our recommendationthat the Committee on Manufacturer Responsibility be formed before the end of this semester.This would enable Penn to begin implementation of the Code of Conduct in a timely fashion. Weunderstand that continuity will be critical to the success of this endeavor, so we recommend thatour next meeting (following the WRC founding conference and FLA board meeting) be a transi-tional one that includes members of the Committee on Manufacturer Responsibility.

President Rodin’s Response to the CommitteeThe following response was sent on March 30 by Dr. Judith Rodin toDr. Howard Kunreuther.

*Ed. Note: President Judith Rodin’s latest letters to the FLA and the WRC are available on the web atwww.upenn.edu/almanac/v46/n27/contents.html.

I very much appreciate the Ad-Hoc Committee on Sweatshop Labor’s quick attention and rec-ommendations on the recent letters from the FLA and the WRC. I agree with the committee’sassessments of the FLA and WRC responses and I have written the enclosed letters* to each groupreflecting this. Included in my letter to the WRC is an explicit request that Penn be permitted tosend a PSAS student observer and a staff observer to present the University’s point of view at thefounding conference on April 7. I particularly hope that the WRC will permit a student from PSASto participate in the conference considering the significant role that Penn students played in raisingnational consciousness on the issue of sweatshop labor. I also included an explicit request in theFLA’s letter to give Penn the opportunity to present at the organization’s April board meeting. Ihope to receive a positive letter from each organization.

I also agree with the committee’s recommendation that I quickly form the Committee on Manu-facturer Responsibility. I will form the committee before the end of the semester. However, whenI receive responses from the FLA and WRC to the enclosed letters, sent today, I would like the Ad-Hoc Committee on Sweatshop Labor to reconvene in its current form to determine whether theresults of the respective April meetings meet our request for balanced representation of collegesand universities on their governing board and determine if we should join either group.. I thenwould like the Ad-Hoc Committee to hold the transitional meeting you suggest with the new Com-mittee on Manufacturer Responsibility.

Many thanks to you and the committee for your commitment and thoughtfulness on this impor-tant issue.

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Mark Kelley, UPHSDr. Peter Traber also announced that Dr.

Mark A. Kelley, professor of medicine andchief of medicine at the Philadelphia Veter-ans Affairs Medical Center, will be resign-ing his positions to become executive vicepresident and chief medical officer at theHenry Ford Health System and chief execu-tive officer of the Henry Ford MedicalGroup. He will join Henry Ford in June.“Henry Ford’s gain will be our loss, becauseMark has been a longtime and active citizenof our Health System,” Dr. Traber said.Appointed vice dean for clinical affairs in1990, Dr. Kelley was the lead physician indeveloping UPHS’s primary-care networkand its network of hospital affiliations. Hewas also instrumental in developing multi-specialty satellites, integrating the facultypractice plans into the Health System, andhelping to shape UPHS’s managed-carestrategy. “In his nearly ten years as vice dean,he was also an important liaison to theregion’s referring physicians and, in fact, tothe general public,” Dr. Traber said. Beforebecoming vice dean, Dr. Kelley served sixyears as vice chairman of the Department ofMedicine. In that role, he directed the internalmedicine training program as well as thedepartment’s physician practice.

Kenwyn Smith, Faculty MasterDrs. Kenwyn Smith and Sara Corse will

be leaving their positions as Faculty Masterand Associate Master of Ware College Houseat the end of the spring semester so that Dr.Smith can take a research sabbatical at Ox-ford University, according to Dr. DavidBrownlee, director of College Houses andAcademic Services. Dr. Brownlee praisedDr. Smith and Dr. Corse for their leadershipof Ware College House through the imple-mentation of the new College House system,and for their deep commitment to the well-being of the students living at Ware.

Nominations and applications are invitedfor the position of Faculty Master of WareCollege House. For more information, visit theCollege House web site at www.upenn.edu/resliv/chas/staff. Inquiries should be directedto David Fox, Associate Director for AcademicServices, 112 Hamilton College House/6180,or e-mail dfox@sas.upenn.edu.

Jonathan A. Raz, associate professor of bio-statistics, died on February 23, at the age of 44,unexpectedly from complications of a systemicbacterial infection. He received a B.S. degree instatistics and a Ph.D. in biostatistics from the Uni-versity of California, Berkeley, and joined the fac-ulty of the University of Michigan as a tenure-track assistant professor in 1991. He was promotedto tenured associate professor in 1995. Dr. Raz leftMichigan in 1999 to assume a new faculty positionat Penn.

Dr. Raz was internationally renowned for hisinnovative research on statistical methods for theanalysis of repeated-measures data, biomedicalsignals and images. His research papers appearedin the top scholarly journals in statistics and elec-trical engineering, and were widely cited for theirdepth and rigor. His research was very interdisci-plinary in nature, and attracted external researchfunding from NSF and NIH. Dr. Raz was a dedi-cated teacher and a very clear expositor of com-plex ideas. He was rigorous in his demands onstudents, but also very sympathetic to their needsand interested in their welfare. He introduced anumber of courses to the Biostatistics graduateprogram on time series and repeated measuresanalysis, which added important dimensions tothe teaching program. Because of his strong lead-ership and innovations as chair of the Ph.D. Can-didacy Committee in Biostatistics, the Depart-ment of Biostatistics at the University of Michi-gan is henceforth naming the award for the out-standing student performance on the Ph.D. Quali-fying Exam the Jonathan Raz Award.

Jonathan, with his wife Jennifer Lenway, andtheir daughters Amelie and Abigail, moved toSwarthmore, in the summer of 1998 to begin asabbatical year in biostatistics at the Universityof Pennsylvania. During that year he developedhighly productive collaborations with research in-vestigators in the neurosciences, and was offereda permanent faculty position beginning July 1,

1999 as associate profes-sor in the department ofbiostatistics and epide-miology within theSchool of Medicine, aswell as a position as direc-tor of the Image AnalysisLaboratory within anewly formed Center forCognitive Neuroscience(CCN).

In the very short timesince moving to Penn, Dr.Raz developed collabora-tive projects with neuro-scientists, studying epi-lepsy and stroke usingfunctional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI),studying cognitive processing using fMRI, diffusiontensor magnetic resonance imaging (DT-MRI), andperfusion MRI. With investigators in the Brain Be-havior Laboratory (BBL) in the psychiatry depart-ment, Dr. Raz was collaborating on studies of cogni-tive function in schizophrenics and control subjectsusing fMRI, event-related potentials (ERPs), andpositron emission tomography (PET).

In parallel with these multidisciplinary collabo-rative research projects, Dr. Raz was actively pur-suing new statistical, mathematical, and compu-tational methods for the analysis of images andtime series, also in collaboration with Penn neu-roscientists, always sensitive to ensure that themethodology would be relevant to neuroscienceresearch and clinical practice. In particular, thesemethodological projects involved developing sev-eral improved methods for designing fMRI stud-ies and analyzing fMRI data, and developing aninnovative approach to inter-subject analysis ofneuroimages. Most recently, Dr. Raz’s own R01grant application entitled Automatic StatisticalTime-Frequency Analysis was funded to developand evaluate new methods for the analysis ofnonstationary time series, with particular applica-tion to electroenceophalography (EEG) recordingsfrom epileptic patients. His colleagues includedDrs. Litt and French in the Penn neurology de-partment, Rainer von Sachs, Ph.D., Institut deStatistique, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, andHernando Ombao, Ph.D. (a former dissertationstudent of his), now an assistant professor in thedepartments of statistics and psychiatry, Univer-sity of Pittsburgh. Dr. Raz was working closelywith Richard Greenblatt, Ph.D., president ofSource Signal Imaging, Inc., which develops andmarkets software for processing and analysis of ERPand neuroimaging data, preparing to implement andmarket these new statistical methods for ERP analy-sis, including Dr. Raz’s wavelet methods.

Dr. Raz loved to debate the issues of the day instatistics with his colleagues and students. He wasan enthusiastic, energetic person with wide-rang-ing interests. Besides his work in statistics, he alsowrote science fiction and poetry, and enjoyed as-tronomy, art and classical music. He was also adevoted family man who loved to spend time withhis beloved wife Jennifer, and make up bedtimestories for his two delightful daughters. His manyfriends at Michigan, Penn and throughout the in-ternational statistical community including theAmerican Statistical Association and the Interna-tional Biometric Society will sorely miss him.

—Submitted by Dr. J. Richard Landis,Professor and Director,

Center for Clinical Epidemiology andBiostatistics; Chief, Division of Biostatistics

Gavin Kerr, UPHSDr. Peter G. Traber, CEO of UPHS, an-

nounced that Gavin Kerr, vice president forplanning and organizational effectiveness, willleave UPHS on April 15 to join Asset Trade,an Internet company based in King of Prussia.“For the last five years, Mr. Kerr has been avaluable member of the Health System’s cor-porate leadership,” Dr. Traber said. He joinedUPHS in 1995 as associate vice president forhuman resources. The following year, he ad-vanced to vice president for human resourcesand strategic planning. Mr. Kerr assumed hispresent position last August. During his yearsat Penn, he was instrumental in several impor-tant initiatives in service excellence, recruit-ment, compensation, and organizational effec-tiveness. His constant principle was to balancethe legitimate needs of employees and the re-alities of a highly competitive health-care mar-ketplace—in short, to make UPHS an employerof choice in the region.

Jonathan Raz

Leaving In Memorium: Jonathan A. Raz, 1955-2000

To Report A Death: Almanac appreciates beinginformed of the deaths of current and former fac-ulty and staff members, students, and other mem-bers of the University community.

However, notices of alumni deaths should bedirected to the Alumni Records Office at Room545, Franklin Building, (215) 898-8136 orrecord@ben.dev.upenn.edu.

Justin Finalle, College JuniorJustin Finalle, age 21, a junior in the

College, died suddenly on March 25 at hishome in DuBois. Mr. Finalle was major-ing in political science and environmentalstudies. He was also a member of the SigmaNu fraternity. Mr. Finalle transferred toPenn in 1999 from Allegheny College andwas a participant in the Washington Semes-ter program this spring. He had left the pro-gram after five weeks to return home toDuBois to work as a sportswriter at hishometown newspaper.

Mr. Finalle is survived by his parentsWesley W. and Paula Resinger Finalle; hissister, Amy; paternal grandmother, CarolynFinalle; maternal grandmother, RoseBuzard; numerous aunts, uncles and cous-ins. Memorial donations may be made tothe DuBois Area School District, c/o Ath-letic Department, 500 Liberty Boulevard,DuBois, PA 25801.

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For University of Pennsylvania Museum archaeologists, breakingground usually means the start of a new excavation begun with high hopesand the sweet anticipation of discovery—often far, far from home. OnFriday, April 14, at 10 a.m., breaking ground will take on a whole newmeaning, as the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology andAnthropology hosts a ceremonial groundbreaking for its new, state-of-the-art Mainwaring Wing for collections storage and study, right in theMuseum’s own front yard—the Sharpe Circle off of South Street just eastof 33rd and Spruce Streets, where the four-story, 35,000 square foot build-ing wing will be built.

The event, free and open to the public, celebrates a critical Museumfundraising goal achieved—$17 million—as it looks to the future with anew facility aimed to protect priceless artifacts and improve scholarlycollections access. The University community, Museum volunteers andstaff, Philadelphia school children, donors, cultural community membersand the general public are all invited to share in the milestone event. TheWomen’s Sekere Ensemble—a local group that performs frequently atMuseum events—offers music to inspire, and refreshments will be servedfollowing the formal presentation.

Project construction for the Mainwaring Wing will begin in May 2000,and construction is expected to be completed in 18 months. The wing is namedin honor of former Museum Board of Overseers Chairman A. BruceMainwaring and his wife, School of Nursing Overseers Chair Emeritus Mar-garet Redfield Mainwaring, strong Museum advocates and supporters.

President Judith Rodin is co-host of the groundbreaking event withDr. Jeremy Sabloff, the Museum’s Williams Director. Hailing the newwing as an important component in the University’sAgenda for Excellence, Dr. Rodin noted, “With the Mainwaring Wingproviding much needed collections storage and study space, the Museumwill continue its proud tradition of leadership into the 21st century, in-spiring future generations of scholars.”

“As we break ground for the new Mainwaring Wing, we act upon ourobligation to preserve our priceless collections for today and for futuregenerations,” noted Dr. Sabloff. “It is an obligation to the general public,for whom the collections can offer inspiration and greater understandingof our shared human experience; to researchers and other scholars, wholook to our collections to illuminate their understanding of culture andcultures; and to people of diverse cultures, ancient and contemporary,that we seek to learn more about.”

University of Pennsylvania Museum’s Groundbreaking for theMainwaring Wing for Collections Storage and Study

Architectural drawing by Atkin, Olshin, Lawson-Bell and AssociatesArchitects shows the Mainwaring Wing’s facade facing the Museum’scourtyard, projecting out toward South Street.

Dr. Rodin and Dr. Sabloff will speak at the groundbreaking. They willbe joined by A. Bruce and Margaret R. Mainwaring; Provost RobertBarchi; Mr. James Riepe, Chairman, Board of Trustees; Mr. John Hover,Chairman of the Museum’s Board of Overseers; and Virginia Ebert, agraduate student in the anthropology department.

Forty-five thousand area school children and their teachers visit theMuseum and its rich international collections each year, while many thou-sands more are visited by Museum “mobile guides.” Students from theLea School in West Philadelphia will be special guests at thegroundbreaking; immediately following the formal event, they will meetwith a Museum archaeologist and try their own hands at “breaking ground”the archaeologists’ way, with a trowel in an (sandbox) “excavation site.”

The Museum draws upon the support and commitment of more than300 dedicated volunteers who work in virtually every aspect of Museumresearch, education, programming and collections management; an all-volunteer thank you luncheon follows the groundbreaking ceremony.

Friday’s ceremonial groundbreaking is the first event in a weekend-long celebration. On Saturday evening, the all-volunteer Women’s Com-mittee hosts a gala event and fundraiser, “The Eyes Have It.” On Sunday,the Museum opens 44 Celebrity Eyes in a Museum Storeroom, a specialexhibition that shows off the rich and diverse collections through selec-tions by 22 international “celebrities,” from cellist Yo-Yo Ma, to actorKevin Bacon, to fashion designer Mary McFadden. (See next page.)

After more than 110 years of research and collections development,the Museum has reached the limit of its ability to maintain its interna-tionally renowned collections—one million archaeological and anthro-pological artifacts from around the world—under present conditions inoften overcrowded basement storage rooms that lack necessary climatecontrol.

The goal of the new Mainwaring Wing, designed by the Philadelphiafirm of Atkin, Olshin, Lawson-Bell and Associates Architects, is two-fold: to protect Museum objects from environmental factors by equip-ping the building with a state-of-the-art climate control system, and tomake the objects easily accessible for study or conservation.

The Mainwaring Wing will attach to the small north facade of the1969 wing and project out to South Street, occupying the last availablesite of the Museum’s original, 1895 master plan developed by architectWilson Eyre, Jr. By following existing axial relationships, matching ex-isting eave heights, and using the same materials found in the older wing,the addition will complete the courtyard. After construction is complete,Atkin, Olshin, Lawson-Bell and Associates Architects, together with OlinPartnership Landscape Architects, will rehabilitate the lower courtyard,recreating a park-like garden space, to be named the Stoner CourtyardGarden, after donors Tom and Kitty Stoner of Maryland.

Because of the special use of the new wing, the addition will have twodifferent facades. The storage rooms, arranged along the east side of thebuilding, must be windowless to maintain rigorous light, temperature,and humidity controls. On this side of the building, the concrete frame struc-ture will be clad in a limestone grid and filled in with a system of bronzepanels. The facade facing the courtyard encloses the offices, seminar rooms,and circulation spaces, and will have groupings of windows in a masonrywall which will relate to the materials on the existing facade.

Trammell Crow Company will provide facilities-management servicesfor the project. The construction manager will be Turner ConstructionCompany.

The Museum Expansion Committee, responsible for strategic planningand fundraising, is chaired by A. Bruce Mainwaring. The committee includes:Dr. Andrea M. Baldeck, Dr. Robert H. Dyson, Cornelia Fraley, Melissa ClarkFreeman, Mary Bert Gutman, Susan Helen Horsey, Josephine Hueber, BillKlaus, Missy McQuiston, Ruth Radbill Scott, Sara Senior, Dr. DavidSilverman, Diana T. Vagelos, and Dr. Charles K. Williams, II.

In addition to solid financial support from more than 460 individuals,the Museum received major national and local foundation and govern-ment support for the new wing. The National Endowment for the Hu-manities; The Pew Charitable Trusts; the William Penn Foundation; theHollis Family Foundation; The Kresge Foundation; The Arcadia Founda-tion; the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation; the TKF Foun-dation; and the 1984 Foundation, among others, have all contributed tothe success of the new wing’s campaign.

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What do Kevin Bacon, Mary McFadden,Robert Ballard, Georges Perrier, Peter Lynch andYo-Yo Ma all have in common? They’ve all beento the University of Pennsylvania Museum ofArchaeology and Anthropology recently, andthey’ve all lent their “eyes”—and their uniquesensibilities—to select artifacts from storage forthe Museum’s newest exhibition, 44 CelebrityEyes In A Museum Storeroom, opening Sunday,April 16.

44 Celebrity Eyes was developed to coincidewith the Museum’s formal April 14 ground-breaking for the Mainwaring Wing. The specialexhibition, which showcases the breadth anddepth of the Museum’s collections, features aselection of 65 artifacts chosen by 22 interna-tional “celebrities” from many walks of life. Textpanels and behind-the-scene photographs pro-vide additional information about the celebri-ties and their “picks.” The exhibition runsthrough December 30, 2000.

“We’re excited about this special year 2000exhibition, which gives us a chance to ‘strut ourstuff’ in a fun and engaging way, even as webegin construction on the collections storage andstudy wing which will allow us to preserve suchobjects for future generations,” noted Dr. Jer-emy A. Sabloff, the Williams Director. “Whatbetter way for an archaeology and anthropol-ogy museum to usher in a new millennium-thethird millennium CE (common era), in archaeo-logical parlance?”

The following celebrities lent their “eyes”and selected artifacts for 44 Celebrity Eyes: ac-tor Kevin Bacon and his father, urban plannerEdmund Bacon, Hon’84; oceanographer and Ti-tanic discoverer Robert Ballard; Big Bird ofSesame Street fame; Philadelphia Museum ofArt Director Anne d’Harnoncourt; FBI SpecialAgent Robert Wittman (assigned to cultural heri-tage and art thefts); Philadelphia patriot/writer/scientist ‘Benjamin Franklin’ (a.k.a. historicalactor Ralph Archbold); Phillies center fielderDoug Glanville, EAS’93; composer PhilipGlass; Dr. Zahi Hawass, director general of theGiza Plateau, G’83, Gr’87; investor Peter Lynch,

44 Celebrity Eyes In A Museum Storeroom:Artifacts Selected by 22 Celebrities

WG’68; cellist Yo-Yo Ma; fashion designerMary McFadden; restauranteur/chef GeorgesPerrier; Broadway producer/director Hal Prince,C’48; former Philadelphia Mayor and GeneralChair of the Democratic National Committee,Ed Rendell, C’65; 102nd Archbishop of Can-terbury Robert A.K. Runcie; Princess MahaChakri Sirindhorn of Thailand; playwright TomStoppard; Denise Scott-Brown and Robert Ven-turi, Hon ’80, architects; and the late jazz musi-cian Grover Washington, Jr.

To make their selections for the exhibition,celebrity guests visited crowded Museum store-rooms with materials from ancient Meso-potamia, Asia, Polynesia, Africa, the Americas,ancient Egypt, and the ancient Mediterraneanworld. The result is an exhibition of extraordi-narily diverse “treasures,” from an early 20thcentury Chinese opera robe selected by HalPrince, to a Gilbert Islands coconut fiber corse-let (collected in 1889 and once owned by Rob-ert Louis Stevenson), admired by MaryMcFadden, to 16th century Inca beer cups fa-vored by Georges Perrier, and even a 3,200 yearold sarcophagus lid fragment, from the site ofBeth Shean, Israel, chosen by Philip Glass.

44 Celebrity Eyes In A Museum Storeroomis not a completely new idea for a UniversityMuseum exhibition. In 1952, the Museum in-vited seven men, all active in the art and enter-tainment fields of modern art, to visit Museumstorerooms and select pieces that appealed totheir tastes. Rene d’Harnoncourt, director, Mu-seum of Modern Art, New York (and father ofAnne d’Harnoncourt, 44 Eyes selector); LincolnKirstein, director, New York City Ballet; LouisE. Stern, collector; Jacques Lipchitz, sculptor;Franklin C. Watkins, painter; Charles Addamsof The New Yorker; and Norman Bel Geddes,state and industrial designer, all took the chal-lenge. Their selections, along with their ownbrief commentaries, were shared in a MuseumBulletin publication, and the exhibition was pre-sented to the public in an actual storeroom.

Visit the Museum at www.upenn.edu/museum/or call (215) 898-4000 for info.

Clockwise from upper right: Ben Franklin,Ed Rendell, Doug Glanville, Yo-Yo Ma,Mary McFadden, Georges Perrier, Peter Lynch,Hal Prince and Kevin Bacon with artifactsthey selected from the Museum’s vast storeroomsfor the upcoming exhibition developed in honorof the Museum’s groundbreaking for theMainwaring Wing, a state-of-the-art collectionsstorage and study facility. The exhibit opensSunday, April 16.

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Wind Ensemble’s First CDThe University of Pennsylvania Wind En-

semble has released its first CD recording.Under the direction of Ricardo

Averbach, the Wind Ensemble celebratedits first recording with a varied concertprogram, including the Don GiovanniOverture and “The Abduction” from theSeraglio by Mozart, “Spring” from TheFour Seasons by Vivaldi, “Mars” and “Ju-piter” from The Planets by Holst, FestiveOverture by Shostakovich (arranged byHunsberger).

The ensemble also performed AllegroVolante for xylophone and band, composedby Penn alumnus Daniel Dorff, Composer-in-Residence for the Haddonfield Sym-phony. Dorff’s Three Fun Fables will bepremiered by the Philadelphia Orchestra inApril of this year under the direction ofWolfgang Sawallisch. Percussionist WilliamKerrigan, who performs with the DelawareSymphony and Orchestra 2001, was thefeatured soloist during the Penn WindEnsemble’s performance of Dorff’s AllegroVolante.

The Wind Ensemble’s first CD, whichwas available for sale at the concert, isavailable through the Music Department,Room 202, S. 34th St., for $10. Make checkspayable to the Trustees of University ofPennsylvania. It includes a performance ofCopland’s Lincoln Portrait narrated byPenn president Judith Rodin. In addition,the CD features previously unreleasedmusic by Penn composers Jay Reise andGerald Levinson, as well as the world pre-miere recording of Villa-Lobos’ Fantasyin Three Movements, performed jointlywith the Yale Concert Band.

Open Enrollment: April 17 through April 28Look for Open Enrollment materials to be arriving at your home address during the week ofApril 10, 2000. Some changes for this year include a new prescription drug vendor, CaremarkPrescription Services, and a reimbursement change to 90% for generic drugs and 70% forbrand name drugs, including mental health drugs. If you enroll in any of the medical plansoffered by the University, you will receive a packet of information in mid-June explainingthe details of this new prescription drug program, as well as the items you will need to beginusing the program on July 1, 2000. Please be aware that your new Caremark prescription IDcards will be included in this forthcoming packet of information.

The information below is a brief synopsis of your new prescription drug benefits.This program is easy to use and will save you money.

Prescription Drug BenefitsRetail Mail Service

When For immediate drug needs For maintenance or long-termor short-term medications medications

Where At over 50,000 Caremark Simply mail your originalparticipating pharmacies prescription, along with thenationwide, including 20,000 Patient Profile/Order Formindependent community and your medicationspharmacies. For your will be sent directlyconvenience, HUP to your home.pharmacy has been addedas a participating pharmacy.After June 1, 2000, simplyaccess the Pharmacy Locator atwww.rxrequest.com/upenn—or callCaremark’s Customer Service at1-800-378-0802 to locate aCaremark participating pharmacyin your area.

You Pay * • 10% for each generic prescription • 10% for each generic prescription(and brand name prescription if a (and brand name prescription if ageneric substitute is not available or generic substitute is not availablenot permitted by your physician.) or not permitted by your physician.)• 30% for each brand name • 30% for each brand nameprescription. prescription

Supply Limit 30-day supply 90-day supply

Questions Caremark Customer Service 1-800-378-0802

* If you enrolled in an HMO plan, you must meet an annual deductible of $25 for single coverageand $50 for family coverage before Caremark co-payments begin.

The following table presents the 2000-2001 plan year health care rates for full-time Univer-sity faculty and staff. This information will also be included in the information packets sentto your home during the week of April 10, 2000.

2000-2001 Health Care Rates Employee Contributions (per pay period)

Weekly Paid Monthly PaidOptions Single Family Single Family

MedicalBC/BS Plan 100 2 $21.58 $56.21 $93.50 $243.58PennCare 11 12.62 32.79 54.67 142.08UPHS POS 12 5.75 14.98 24.92 64.92Aetna US Healthcare —PA 5 2.98 7.77 12.92 33.67Aetna US Healthcare —DE 10 2.98 7.77 12.92 33.67Aetna US Healthcare —NJ 6 2.98 7.77 12.92 33.67Keystone HMO 9 2.98 7.77 12.92 33.67

DentalPenn Faculty Practice Plan 1 $ 1.15 $10.96 $ 5.00 $ 47.50MetLife Preferred Dentist Program 4 0.92 8.58 4.00 37.17

VisionOptiChoice 2 $ 1.35 $ 3.63 $ 5.83 $ 15.75

Change of Address? Please advise your Business Administrator so that your mailingaddress will be updated in the system.

—Division of Human Resources

The Open Enrollment Benefits FairsAn opportunity to talk with providers and pick up new provider directories

April 18—Sheraton University City Hotel, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

April 20—New Bolton Center, Kennett Square, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Other recordings by University artists which areavailable at the University Bookstore are:Souled Out by Chord on BluesHigh Dive, Housekeeping by CounterpartsPatio by Off the BeatAwaaz by Penn MasalaElixir by Pennsylvania Six-5000Testify by Full MeasureHail Pennsylvania, In Song of Course by

Penn Glee ClubBroken Souls by Mathew BarkanDestiny by Rob MuratHeaded in the Wrong Direction, by Dave GoldmanMarian Anderson, Rare and Unpublished Record-

ings 1936-1952 by Marian Anderson.

To hear a sample of the CD visit Almanac’s website,www.upenn.edu/almanac/v46/n27/WindCD.html.

More Penn Recordings

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18th District Report

Crimes Against Persons and Society

The University of Pennsylvania Police DepartmentCommunity Crime Report

About the Crime Report: Below are all Crimes Against Persons and Crimes Against Society fromthe campus report for March 20, 2000 through March 26, 2000. Also reported were Crimes AgainstProperty: 19 total thefts and 3 criminal mischiefs. Full reports on the web(www.upenn.edu/almanac/v46/n27/crimes.html). Prior weeks’ reports are also on-line. —Ed.This summary is prepared by the Division of Public Safety and includes all criminal incidents reported andmade known to the University Police Department between the dates of March 20, 2000 and March 26,2000. The University Police actively patrol from Market Street to Baltimore Avenue and from the SchuylkillRiver to 43rd Street in conjunction with the Philadelphia Police. In this effort to provide you with a thoroughand accurate report on public safety concerns, we hope that your increased awareness will lessen theopportunity for crime. For any concerns or suggestions regarding this report, please call the Division ofPublic Safety at (215) 898-4482.

The University of Pennsylvania values diversity and seeks talentedstudents, faculty and staff from diverse backgrounds. The University ofPennsylvania does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, sexualorientation, religion, color, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, orstatus as a Vietnam Era Veteran or disabled veteran in the administrationof educational policies, programs or activities; admissions policies; schol-arship and loan awards; athletic, or other University administered pro-grams or employment. Questions or complaints regarding this policyshould be directed to Valerie Hayes, Executive Director, Office of Affirma-tive Action,3600 Chestnut Street, 2nd floor, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6106or (215) 898-6993 (Voice) or (215) 898-7803 (TDD).

The University of Pennsylvania’s journal of record, opinion andnews is published Tuesdays during the academic year, and asneeded during summer and holiday breaks. Its electronic edi-tions on the Internet (accessible through the PennWeb) includeHTML and Acrobat versions of the print edition, and interiminformation may be posted in electronic-only form. Guidelines forreaders and contributors are available on request.EDITOR Marguerite F. MillerASSOCIATE EDITOR Margaret Ann MorrisASSISTANT EDITOR Tina BejianWORK-STUDY STUDENTS Ejim Achi, Ambika Ganesh,

Angie Liou, Diane SkorinaALMANAC ADVISORY BOARD: For the Faculty Senate, MartinPring (Chair), Helen C. Davies, Peter Freyd, Larry Gross, PhoebeLeboy, Neville Strumpf. For the Administration, Ken Wildes. For theStaff Assemblies, PPSA , Michele Taylor; Debra Smiley Koita, A-3 Assembly; David N. Nelson, Librarians Assembly.

Suite 211 Nichols House3600 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6106Phone: (215) 898-5274 or 5275 FAX: (215) 898-9137E-Mail: almanac@pobox.upenn.eduURL: www.upenn.edu/almanac/

RESEARCH STUDIESChildren and adults, children ages 7-17 andadults ages 18-65 are needed for ongoing medi-cation research trials for the treatment of de-pression. Evaluation and treatment are free tothose who qualify. Call the Mood & AnxietyProgram of the University of Pennsylvania (800)-422-7000 or (215) 898-4301.

•To place a classified ad, call (215) 898-5274.

CLASSIFIEDS

CONFERENCE/SEMINAR2nd Annual Gastroenterology & HepatologyUpdate: A comprehensive update for gastroen-terologists, surgeons and pathologists. State-of-the-art lectures and panel discussions areprovided by the University of Pennsylvania andguest faculty who are experts in their fields.Sponsored by the Unversity of Pennsylvania,Division of Gastroenterology. Takes place June8-11, 2000 at The Westin Hotel, Philadelphia.Contact the CME office at (215) 898-6400 or e-mail krjames@mail.med.upenn.edu.

8 incidents and 1 arrest (including 7 robberies, and 1 aggravated assault ) were reported between March20, 2000 and March 26, 2000 by the 18th District covering the Schuylkill River to 49th Street and MarketStreet to Woodland Avenue.

Research participants needed for hyper-tension pharmaceutical study. Must bediagnosed as hypertensive and able to keepearly morning appointments. $500. ContactVirginia Ford, MSN at HUP HypertensionProgram, (215) 662-2410 or (215) 662-2638.

UpdateAPRIL AT PENN

Deadlines: The deadline for the weekly updateis each Monday for the following week's issue.For the May At Penn calendar it is April 11.

All Aboard: Express AlmanacExpress Almanac is a new, free electronic

service that describes top stories in Almanacas soon as the latest issue is available on line.to register electronically, send an e-mail mes-sage with “subscribe” as the Subject toalmanac@pobox.upenn.edu and include yourname, e-mail address, and mailing address.

—Ed.

03/20/00 1:24 PM 3718 Locust Walk Male wanted by Department of Probation/Arrest03/20/00 3:12 PM 300 S. 34th St. Unauthorized person in building/Arrest03/20/00 5:13 PM 209 S. 33rd St. Unauthorized person in building/Arrest03/20/00 7:38 PM 3650 Chestnut St. Unwanted calls received03/21/00 1:37 AM 34th/Civic Ctr Blvd. Person not able to pay hotel bill/Arrest03/21/00 10:26 PM 422 Curie Blvd. Unauthorized person in building/Arrest03/21/00 11:52 PM 4201 Walnut St. Suspicious male stopped/wanted on warrant/Arrest03/22/00 1:53 AM 100 blk S 40th St. Male became disruptive during traffic stop/Arrest03/22/00 12:34 PM 3733 Spruce St. Unauthorized male in building/Arrest03/22/00 6:43 PM 3661 Walnut St. Unknown suspect using stolen credit card03/25/00 3:24 PM 4001 Spruce St. Hang up calls received03/25/00 11:49 PM 3801 Chestnut St. Property taken/person struck by suspect/Arrest03/26/00 12:35 AM 4100 Locust St. Female observed drinking/underage/Arrest03/26/00 3:39 AM 42nd/Locust St. Complainant assaulted by unknown person

03/20/00 10:20 PM 4800 Warrington St. Robbery03/22/00 11:40 PM 4301 Walnut St. Robbery03/23/00 7:10 PM 4500 Osage Av. Aggravated Assault03/25/00 7:15 PM 4000 Market St. Robbery03/25/00 11:49 PM 3801 Chestnut St. Robbery/Arrest03/26/00 12:18 AM 4600 Osage Av. Robbery03/26/00 2:26 AM 4600 Chestnut St. Robbery03/26/00 4:32 PM 221 49th St. Robbery

EXHIBITS4 Fox Family All Campus Juried Exhibition forUndergraduate; Fox Art Gallery, Logan Hall; 10a.m.-5 p.m., Tues.-Fri.; 5-7 p.m.; (Fine Arts;GSFA). Through April 28.

MUSIC

6 Once Upon a Mattress; Penn Singers; 4-5p.m.; 2nd Floor, Penn Bookstore (Penn Bookstore).13 Dance Party for Students; four WQHS DJswill play music throughout the evening, 8 p.m.-midnight, galleries will remain open until 10 p.m.,ICA; refreshments will be served, free admission(WQHS-AM; ICA).

READINGS/SIGNINGSPenn Bookstore4 Story Hour; 11 a.m.-noon; Penn & Me Area.Also April 11.5 Open Moral Community; Seymour Mandel-baum, author; noon-1 p.m; 2nd floor.8 Ruenel’s Group: Poetry Reading and OpenMike; 10-11 a.m.; 2nd Floor.

TALKS

6 CFTR Channel Gating: Not a Simple Open-and-Shut Case; David Gadsby, RockefellerUniversity; 4 p.m.; Physiology Conference Room,Richards Building (Physiology).

Adding Operating System Structure toLanguage-Based Protection; Chris Hawblitzel,Cornell; 3 p.m.; room 216, Moore School (CIS).11 A Public Interview with Robert Creely;

Orientation for PostdocsThe School of Medicine’s Office of

Postdoctoral Programs will hold an ori-entation program April 13 for newpostdocs (appointments beginning Octo-ber 1999) to be held from 3-5 p.m. in theClass of ’62 Lecture Hall in the basementof the John Morgan Building.

The session will focus on makingone’s postdoctoral experience a successand will feature representatives from thefollowing resource offices: Bioethics, In-ternational Programs, Lab Animal Re-sources, Environmental Health and Ra-diation Safety and Career Services.

Questions: call (215) 573-4332.

Corrections: In last week’s issue, Dr. DennisDischer, was incorrectly identified in the Hon-ors & Other Things story announcing hisPECASE award from the NSF. Dr. Discher isan assistant professor of mechanical engineer-ing and applied mechanics. The headline onpage one of last week’s issue should have readTotal Student Charges Rising 3.4%.

We regret the errors. —Ed.

OPPORTUNITIESAll open positions at Penn are posted on theHuman Resources web site atwww.hr.upenn.edu. Todays Penn Partnershipprovides services to Penn hiring officers for thehire of permanent and temporary office supportstaff. Todays is also managing the Penn Job Ap-plication Center. You may contact them at (215)222-3400 for your employment needs. Penn’sJob Application Center at 3550 Market Street,Suite 110, is open 8 a.m.-6 p.m. weekdayswhere computer stations are available for youto browse the openings and/or apply on-line.

conducted by Al Filreis, English; 10 a.m.; KellyWriters House, RSVP to whfellow@english.upenn.edu (Kelly Writers House).

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COMMENCEMENT 2000: Sketches of the Honorary Degree Recipients

John N. BahcallDr. John N. Bahcall, Richard Black Profes-

sor of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Ad-vanced Study in Princeton, is one of the world’smost distinguished astrophysicists. Dr. Bahcallis an expert on the elusive form of radiationknown as neutrinos. Neutrinos have the poten-tial to map the heavens in a new and unique way.They pass almost unhindered through vastamounts of matter—including the Earth—andso can escape from dense regions of the cosmoswhere light cannot penetrate. They also areundeflected by the magnetic fields that criss-cross the universe, and so can point straight backat their origin. Dr. Bahcall’s work has includedstudies of solar models, neutrino oscillations,nuclear fusion reactions, and, most particularly,neutrinos from the sun. Not only is he a mem-ber of the National Academy of Sciences andthe Academia Europea, in 1993 he won theNASA Distinguished Public Service Medal forhis observational studies using the Hubble SpaceTelescope. In 1998, he was awarded the nation’shighest science honor, the National Medal ofScience, for his pioneering efforts in neutrinoastrophysics and his contributions to the devel-opment and planning of the Hubble Space Tele-scope. Dr. Bahcall’s brilliance and his dedica-tion to his work distinguishes him as one of thetruly great scientific minds of our time.

Mary DouglasDr. Mary Douglas, retired professor of social

anthropology, London University; Honorary Fel-low, University College London; and ProfessorEmerita of Humanities, Northwestern Univer-sity, is an intellectual path-breaker. She forged asynthesis of Western philosophical ideas, socialscientific theories, and the thoughts of the Lelepeople of Central Africa, and has enabled us tohave new ways of observing and understandingthe implicit meanings in everyday life. In herwork, Dr. Douglas has explored the cognitiveprocesses in cultures and societies seeking tounravel the principles by which people order theirworld. Classification, a central concept in herwork, has become key for the understanding ofthe symbolization process in modern and ancientsocieties. Her first major book, Purity and Dan-ger (1966), developed an important insight aboutthe relationship between schemes of cultural cat-egories and ideas about practices regarding pol-lution and purity. It received instant and widespread recognition in the field, and has sincebecome a classic. Dr. Douglas’ interests havebeen broad and her impact outside the disciplineof anthropology has been considerable. Her workhas had influence in the fields of economics,psychology, politics, risk analysis, and biblicalcriticism. Dr. Douglas is certainly one of themost outstanding scholars of her generation anda person who has contributed to her field inseminal ways.

Ronald DworkinRonald Dworkin is Quain Professor of Ju-

risprudence at University College London andSommer Professor of Law and Philosophy atNew York University. He is considered one ofthe most perceptive legal philosophers of hisgeneration and is substantially responsible forthe connections that exist between legal theoryand moral and political philosophy, which schol-ars believe have expanded the reach of both dis-

Wynton MarsalisWynton Marsalis is lauded as the most ac-

complished and acclaimed jazz artist and com-poser of his generation. Through the force ofhis intellect, creativity, and charisma, he has suc-ceeded in bringing jazz to the forefront of Ameri-can culture. In 1997, he became the first jazzmusician to win the prestigious Pulitzer Prizein music, which he won for Blood on the Fields,his epic oratorio on the subject of slavery. Mr.Marsalis also is widely respected for his workas a classical musician. As an exclusive classi-cal artist for Sony Classical, he won critical ac-claim for the recording In Gabriel’s Garden,which featured Baroque music for trumpet andorchestra. Mr. Marsalis’ other Sony Classical re-cordings include concert, chamber, and solomusic for trumpet from the Baroque, Classical,Romantic, and twentieth-century repertoires.His achievements as a musician and composerof both jazz and classical music have won himnine Grammy Awards. In conjunction with sev-eral important commissioned debuts and an in-ternational tour, Mr. Marsalis released an un-precedented eight albums on Columbia Jazz andSony Classical. His most recent release, TheMidnight Blues, debuted at the top of BillboardMagazine’s Jazz Chart, and remained in the TopTen for 25 weeks.

Mr. Marsalis has not limited himself to com-posing and playing music. He is internationallyrespected as a teacher and spokesman for musiceducation. He has received honorary doctoratesfrom no less than eleven universities and col-leges. Mr. Marsalis serves as Artistic Directorfor the internationally-acclaimed Jazz at LincolnCenter program, which he co-founded in 1987.His achievements in the field of music havebrought him not only fame, but worldwide re-spect for his talents. He is one of the great fig-ures in twentieth-century music.

Edward G. RendellIn January 1992, Edward G. Rendell was

elected the 121st Mayor of the City of Philadel-phia. During his tenure he restored fiscal stabil-ity to a municipal government that was nearbankruptcy, and brought new meaning to theterm “Reinventing Government.” When MayorRendell was sworn into office, the City of Phila-delphia faced an annual structural budget defi-cit of more than $200 million and a projectedcumulative budget deficit of $1.4 billion by theend of his first term. In his first year in office,Mayor Rendell implemented the city’s first bal-anced budget in seven years, and was able to de-sign a five-year Financial Plan for the City of Phila-delphia that wiped out the projected deficit.

The cornerstone of the Rendell Administra-tion was the unprecedented “public-private part-nership” that developed between the city gov-ernment and the local business community. Thispartnership included the creation of the Mayor’sPrivate Sector Task Force, composed of morethan 300 volunteer loaned executives, whichengaged in a comprehensive management over-view of the operations of the City of Philadel-phia government. This task force generated over400 recommendations for changes, virtually allof which have been implemented.

Mayor Rendell’s revenue-generating initia-tives increased the City of Philadelphia’s rev-enue collection by approximately $70 million ayear without an increase in taxes. Key manage-ment and productivity initiatives included rene-gotiations of all city leases, consolidation of thecity’s fleet operations into a centralized Officeof Fleet Management, and competitive biddingof the city’s insurance contracts. In addition tohis tremendous achievements as the Mayor ofthe City of Philadelphia, Ed Rendell has foundtime to devote to many charitable and nonprofitendeavors, including the Community HomeHealth Service of Philadelphia, The White-Wil-liams Foundation, Soviet Jewry Council, Jew-ish Community Relations Council, Jewish Na-tional Fund, and “Philly Kids Play It Safe.”

Ed Rendell’s commitment, dedication, civicresponsibility, and his numerous achievementshave distinguished him throughout his career.His accomplishments have brought praise andadmiration from others. In the fall of 1999, Presi-dent Clinton recommended that Ed Rendellserve as the General Chairman of the DemocraticNational Committee. The recommendation wasconfirmed by the full Democratic National Com-mittee, noting that Rendell has the necessaryability to build consensus and work with thoseof differing views, while still keeping a positiveoutlook.

Seamus HeaneySeamus Heaney, the 1995 Nobel Prize win-

ner in Literature is the Ralph Waldo EmersonPoet in Residence at Harvard and former pro-fessor of poetry at Oxford.

For Seamus Heaney’s background see Alma-nac, March 28 on-line at www.upenn.edu/alma-nac/v46/n26/032800.html#seamus.

For more about Dr. Bahcall, Dr. Douglas,Prof. Dworkin, Mr. Marsalis & Mr. Rendell, seewww.upenn.edu/almanac/v46/n27/040400.html.or see following pages.

Commencement Hotline & WebsiteThe Office of the Secretary has a website and

hotline that provides 24-hour information(geared toward degree candidates and theirguests) about Commencement, Baccalaureate,and the school graduations. The website iswww.upenn.edu/commencement and the hotlineis (215) 573-GRAD. In addition, informationalbrochures for degree candidates can be obtainedthrough their schools. Brochures for parents andguests are available through the Office of theSecretary. Faculty and staff also should directtheir Commencement questions to that office at(215) 898-7005.

ciplines and affected the methods of judicial in-terpretation. He has produced numerous brilliantand highly influential books and articles on avariety of subjects related to legal philosophy.His books, Taking Rights Seriously, Law’s Em-pire, Life’s Dominion, Freedom’s Law, and AMatter of Principle, contain a wealth of ideasand arguments that have generated a tremendousamount of responsive literature. He has servedas the co-chairman of the Democratic PartyAbroad and he is a member of the Council ofWriter’s and Scholar’s Educational Trust, theIndex on Censorship, and the Programme Com-mittee of the Ditchley Foundation. He has servedas a consultant on human rights to the FordFoundation. Ronald Dworkin is widely regardedas one of the most eminent scholars in the fieldof legal and political philosophy and he is ahighly respected public intellectual in both theUnited States and England.

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John N. B ahcall’s BackgroundBorn in Shreveport, Louisiana, John N. Bahcall attended the University of California at Berke-

ley, where he received his B.A. in physics in 1956. In 1957, he earned a M.S. from the Universityof Chicago, followed by a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1961. Following time spent at Indi-ana University as a research associate, Dr. Bahcall moved to the California Institute of Technology,where he became an associate professor of theoretical physics.In 1968, Dr. Bahcall became a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. By 1971,he was appointed professor of natural sciences at the Institute. In 1997, the Institute honored Dr.Bahcall by appointing him Richard Black Professor of Natural Sciences, a position he still holds.

From 1973 to 1992, Dr. Bahcall was part of NASA’s Hubble Telescope Working Group. He leda team of astronomers that ruled out the possibility that red dwarf stars constitute invisible matter,called dark matter, believed to account for more than ninety percent of the mass of the universe.Additionally, in 1995, NASA’s Hubble Telescope helped solve a twenty-year-old cosmic mysteryby showing that mysterious clouds of hydrogen in space may actually be vast halos of gas sur-rounding galaxies. Twenty years ahead of their time, Bahcall and his colleague, Lyman Spitzer,first proposed the possibility of galaxy halos in 1969.

Throughout his career, Dr. Bahcall’s achievements have been widely recognized. In addition toreceiving the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal and the National Medal of Science, hewas awarded the 1970 Warner Prize of the American Astronomical Society for his research onquasars and solar neutrinos, the 1994 Heineman Prize by the American Astronomical Society andthe American Institute of Physics for his work on solar neutrinos, and the 1998 Hans Bethe Prizefrom the American Physical Society “for his fundamental work on all theoretical aspects of thesolar neutrino problem and his important contributions to other areas of astrophysics.”

In 1999 Dr. Bahcall received the American Astronomical Society’s highest recognition, theHenry Norris Russell Lectureship, which is awarded on the basis of a lifetime of eminence inastronomical research. The award citation reads: “John N. Bahcall has worked tirelessly to ad-vance the detection of solar neutrinos. His other notable contributions include developing thestandard methods used to identify absorption line systems in QSO spectra, and putting together acomprehensive model of our Galaxy.” Dr. Bahcall was president of the American AstronomicalSociety and chair of the National Academy Decade Survey Committee for Astronomy and Astro-physics.Dr. Bahcall’s body of research and written work is tremendous, including seven books, 419 scien-tific papers, and forty-two popular articles. His work is noted both for its scientific rigor and forhis determination to explain its scientific content to non-scientists.

Dr. Bahcall has ties to the University of Pennsylvania, having served as a member of the Exter-nal Review Committee of the Department of Physics. He has served as an informal consultant tothe department, working closely with Professors Ray Davis, Kenneth Lande, Gene Beier, and PaulLangacker.

Mary Douglas’s BackgroundBorn in San Remo, Italy, Mary Douglas received her B.A. from Oxford University in 1943 and her

Master’s Degree in 1947. She earned a Bachelor of Science in 1948 and completed her D.Phil. in 1951.She has received honorary doctorates from University of Uppsala, University of Notre Dame, JewishTheological Seminary, University of East Anglia, University of Essex, and University of Warwick.

Mary Douglas’ academic career is one of international renown. She lectured in anthropology atUniversity College London, and was a reader at University of London. She was appointed professorof social anthropology at University College London in 1971. From 1977 to 1981, she directedresearch on culture at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York City. She was appointed the AvalonFoundation Professor of Humanities at Northwestern University in 1981, a position she held until1985, after which she was appointed visiting professor in the religion and anthropology departmentsat Princeton University.

During the first fifteen years of her career, Douglas focused almost exclusively on Africa, havingbeen a research fellow at the International African Institute for Fieldwork in the Belgian Congo from1949 to 1950. In the middle 1960s, her interests turned increasingly to broader theoretical andcomparative issues. Her book, Purity and Danger (1966), earned her recognition within the broadersocial scientific community as a scholar with bold imagination and fresh insight about the structureof culture. It was listed in the London Times as one of the one hundred books that have influencedWestern public discourse since the Second World War. Her second book, Natural Symbols (1970),won her international attention and remains one of the single most important contributions to thetheoretical analysis of culture.

Her classic, ground-breaking contributions to anthropology, her synthesis of Western philosophi-cal ideas and social scientific theories, and particularly her insights into the way humans classifyphenomena such as food and attach symbolic significance to these classifications, has had great impacton anthropology and many other fields such as psychology, religious studies, economics, folklore, andliterature. It is a measure of her scholarship and influence that Douglas’ work has been inspirationalto scholars across the social sciences. She is, without a doubt, one of the leading and most influentialanthropologists of the twentieth century. Her work is essential to anyone who is trained in social andculture studies, and it will be read for generations to come.

Ronald Dworkin’s BackgroundA native of Worcester, Massachusetts,

Ronald Dworkin pursued his education atHarvard University where, in 1953, he receivedan A.B. degree in philosophy. He received aB.A. in jurisprudence from Oxford Universityin 1955. Returning to Harvard, he received anL.L.B. in 1957 and he clerked for Judge LearnedHand on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.Professor Dworkin was associated with Sullivanand Cromwell, a law firm in New York, and wasa professor of law at Yale University Law Schoolfrom 1962 to 1969. He was Professor of Juris-prudence at Oxford and a Fellow of UniversityCollege from 1969 until 1998. He now has ajoint appointment at University College Londonand at New York University, where he is a pro-fessor both in the Law School and the Philoso-phy Department. He is a Fellow of the BritishAcademy and a member of the American Acad-emy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Dworkinhas published many articles in philosophical andlegal journals, as well as articles on legal andpolitical topics in the New York Review of Books.Stephen Guest, who wrote a book on RonaldDworkin for the English series Jurists: Profilesin Legal Theory (1997), noted that RonaldDworkin’s legal theories have been describedas having a complexity, novelty, and moralpower that have excited a wide range of aca-demic and political thinkers. Dworkin writesnot only about the political and legal thought ofthe Western democratic legal systems, particu-larly those of the United States and the UnitedKingdom, but in recent years has become oneof the leading writers on moral and politicalphilosophy. As stated in Guest’s book, “In short,Dworkin’s theory of law is that the nature oflegal argument lies in the best moral interpreta-tion of existing social practices. His theory ofjustice is that all political judgments ought torest ultimately upon the injunction that peopleare equal as human beings, irrespective of thecircumstances in which they are born.”

The outstanding legal philosopher MarshallCohen notes, “the jurisprudential writings ofRonald Dworkin constitute the finest contribu-tion yet made by an American writer to the phi-losophy of law. The fact that Dworkin’s viewscan be considered controversial has improvedthe quality of debate around these issues. Theyhave elicited a response from writers on legal,moral, and political theory that is outstandingin its seriousness and in its exploratory nature.”Ronald Dworkin is indeed a highly esteemed andbrilliant scholar, philosopher, and educator. Hiswritings on the nature of law, on constitutionalinterpretation, on human rights, on the theoryof democratic government, on social justice, andon a host of concrete and contemporary legaland social issues from affirmative action to as-sisted suicide have transformed the understand-ing and interpretation of these matters. His re-markable facility to make complex, abstract ar-guments clear has enabled him to present thesepioneering ideas to a wide audience, not just tolawyers and philosophers. He truly is one of thefew public thinkers of outstanding quality ac-tive in this country.

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Wynton Marsalis’s BackgroundBorn in New Orleans, Louisiana, Wynton Marsalis was studying the trumpet seriously by the

age of twelve. While in high school, he performed in marching bands, jazz bands, funk bands, andclassical orchestras. At eighteen, he moved to New York City to attend the Julliard School ofMusic. He was soon recognized as the most impressive trumpeter at the prestigious conservatory.Before he was twenty, he had become a member of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. It was in thissame year, 1980, that he signed with Columbia Records. His self-titled debut, produced by HerbieHancock, was released in 1982 and was nominated for a Grammy. In 1983, he became the first andonly artist to win both classical and jazz Grammies in one year, and, remarkably, he accomplishedthis feat again in 1984. Marsalis’ music is appreciated throughout the world, and his numerous jazzand classical recordings have sold nearly five million copies worldwide. His jazz group has trav-eled to thirty countries, spanning six continents, and has averaged more than 120 concerts annuallyfor the past sixteen years.

Despite his tireless dedication to his art, Mr. Marsalis devotes a great deal of energy to educa-tion. One of the most successful aspects of the Jazz at Lincoln Center program has been Marsalis’Jazz for Young People series. Wherever he is, Mr. Marsalis takes advantage of his time on the roadto meet with students, and he regularly conducts master classes in local schools. He was awardedthe 1996 Peabody Award for his TV series Marsalis on Music. This award also recognized hisinformative, twenty-six part National Public Radio series, Making the Music, which was based onJazz for Young People. In recognition of the many hours he has contributed to music education, Mr.Marsalis has been given keys to cities across the country, a variety of community service awards,and a Congressional citation.Mr. Marsalis has a special interest, and has enjoyed great success, in composing for dance. He hascomposed music for ballets by Peter Martins and Twyla Tharp, and collaborated with Judith Jamisonof the Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre. His music for dance has been described as “simply superb” bythe New York Times. Newsweek stated that Marsalis’ music contained “verve and vigor rarely heardat the ballet.”Truly a versatile artist, Wynton Marsalis has lent his hand to writing. His 1994 book Sweet SwingBlues on the Road, an in-depth chronicle of his touring life, is a firsthand portrayal of the travels andcamaraderie of a jazz band. Jazz Times praised Marsalis by saying, “He writes warmly and wellabout his men as a group, and about their musicianship and personalities,” adding that the book isreplete with “original thought and expression.”The appeal of Wynton Marsalis’ work crosses all borders. He has been awarded the Grand Prix duDisque of France and the Edison Award of the Netherlands, and was elected an honorary member ofEngland’s Royal Academy of Music. He has been the subject of cover stories in numerous maga-zines, including Life, Parade, and Esquire (UK). In 1996, Time named him among America’s twenty-five most influential people. Wynton Marsalis is, indeed, one of America’s cultural and musicaltreasures.

Edward G. Rendell’s BackgroundBorn in New York City, Edward G. Rendell pursued his education at the University of Pennsyl-

vania, where he received his B.A. in political science in 1965. He continued his studies at VillanovaUniversity where he received his J.D. in 1968, and he was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar thatsame year. Upon graduation from law school, Ed Rendell joined the Philadelphia District Attorney’soffice and was ultimately promoted to Chief of Homicide in 1972. During this time, 1968 to 1974,he served as 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Reserves

In 1977, Ed Rendell ran for District Attorney against the incumbent. He won the primary with69 percent of the vote. Winning the general election at 33, he became the City of Philadelphia’syoungest District Attorney in history. He won re-election in 1981 with 75 percent of the vote, thelargest percentage in modern Pennsylvania’s history.Choosing not to run for the position of District Attorney for a third term, he pursued the Pennsylva-nia gubernatorial nomination in 1986, losing a hard-fought primary to Robert P. Casey. After thisdefeat, Mayor Rendell accepted the chairmanship of Casey’s general election campaign, whichresulted in Casey’s victory.

In 1987, Ed Rendell mounted a campaign for Mayor of Philadelphia against the incumbent Mayor,W. Wilson Goode. Rendell stressed new ideas to deal with the city’s burgeoning financial crisis.Although he did not win the 1987 election against Goode, he returned to his financial and economicthemes in 1991 and was elected Mayor of Philadelphia with a startling 68 percent of the vote.

Ed Rendell’s career as a public servant has been characterized by dedication, wisdom, insight,and a unique ability to both manage and solve multifaceted, challenging municipal issues. Throughouthis career, Ed Rendell has remained a positive force for the City of Philadelphia, and his efforts andachievements in the realms of politics, government, and the nonprofit sector are truly inspiring.

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