Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Much of your social life during the beginning of your first year will center around fraternity parties with cheap beer and bad '80s music. However, only a third of people at Penn are involved in the Greek system. Rush occurs in the spring, so you will already have a group of friends and a better idea of how you fit into the school before you have to decide about joining...
...general theme of the week is solidarity. TBTN wants to "show support for survivors and to show that women are working together," said Alexis B. Karteron '01, a member of the Coalition Against Sexual Violence, a student group lobbying the administration for better resources for responding to and preventing sexual assault...
...also not certain that it isn't, and that's where things get muddy. It took experimenters years to collect the volunteers they needed to give their findings any statistical oomph--in part because women didn't want to risk being in the half of the sample group that received conventional therapy instead of the transplant. Over that time, transplant methods improved, and it is thus possible that higher mortality rates from women earlier in the research are dragging down more positive results from women later on. For now, the only answer appears to be more and better studies...
MARGARET EDSON seems less concerned with being the next Eugene O'Neill than making sure a group of five-year-olds has a tidy work space. On learning that she had won the Pulitzer Prize for her play, Wit, the Atlanta kindergarten teacher's immediate response was to keep cleaning her classroom. Edson wrote Wit in 1991, when she was working at a bicycle shop. The unsentimental story of a woman dying of ovarian cancer wended its way through various regional theaters before ending up off-Broadway six months ago. Edson, 37, says she has no firm plans to write...
...next game, Potvin had the game of his life, stopping 55 shots out of 57, which tied a team record. After the game, in a moment I now appreciate as a narcissistic epiphany, I pulled him away from a group of reporters to ask him about my goaltending. "Honestly, you were good," he said after much hounding. "You were very good. You made some good saves." Our experience, he suggested, may have contributed to his performance. As he left to get on the bus to the Islanders' game in Toronto, he turned to me and asked, "Can you come with...