Frank wrote:
and this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/22/nyregion/thecity/22manh.html?ex=1342756800en=8b256b2e1d8e1c13ei=5090partner=rssuserlandemc=rss
thanks. articles like that are good, but maybe a little
frustrating -- seems they get more to the heartstrings than
to the heart of the
Ross Bender wrote:
I was just reading an article in the New York Review of Books titled
The Women and the Gods, a review of Portrait of a Priestess: Women
and Ritual in Ancient Greece when an ad for books on Urban Studies
from Penn Press caught my eye. First item on the list was a book by our
and this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/22/nyregion/thecity/22manh.html?
ex=1342756800en=8b256b2e1d8e1c13ei=5090partner=rssuserlandemc=rss
Frank
On Aug 2, 2007, at 05:17 PM, UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN wrote:
Ross Bender wrote:
I was just reading an article in the New York Review of Books
titled
/The Mennonites: Photographs by Larry Towell/ just opened at
Arthur Ross Gallery on Penn campus, at 220 S. 34^th St. This
black-and-white collection represents 10 years of work with a specific
community that spans two nations. It combines an artistic effort with
skill at ethnography
What really bugs me about her razzamatazz is the fact that while I've lived
here 22 years as of June 2, I didn't notice any sudden magical transformation
when she blew into town. As other long and longer-term residents have been
witnessing on this list, this has always been a pretty fine place
On 6/12/07, Glenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ask Tony and Melani if I captured the basic idea. Those are the types of
community leaders Penn looks to use because of their personality issues and
limited intelligence. Penn would not deal with the real leaders among the
people but sought to
Ross, I think the obvious way to settle this is a Cut-Throat Quizzo
Tournament at Abbraccio. Glenn, vs, Melani, vs, Tony West in a battle of
the minds. After that, there will be a crank contest that will allow
the spectators vote on who has the most crank like answers to a series
of questions from
Penn/UCD badmouths this neighborhood to this day. Penn still markets itself
by exaggerating how they singlehandedly waived their magic wand and turned
this post industrial wasteland of ten years ago into the heaven-on-earth
we see now. And now, as Ross pointed out, they've even wrote a book
On 6/12/07, Kyle Cassidy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ross, I think the obvious way to settle this is a Cut-Throat Quizzo
Tournament at Abbraccio. Glenn, vs, Melani, vs, Tony West in a battle of
the minds. After that, there will be a crank contest that will allow
the spectators vote on who has the
Let's up the stakes a wee bit and I'm in. I'd also like a bottomless top
shelf scotch glass. Your treat.
All three participants take a pledge that if they lose they will never
request leadership in a civic association for the remainder of their lives.
Let's give the proceeds to the whores,
On 6/12/07, KAREN ALLEN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Penn/UCD badmouths this neighborhood to this day. Penn still markets
itself
by exaggerating how they singlehandedly waived their magic wand and
turned
this post industrial wasteland of ten years ago into the heaven-on-earth
we see now. And now,
DEAL!
I will buy Glenn all the top shelf scotch he can drink during both the
Quizzo and Crank portions of the tournament.
Proceeds can be flung into the bowl, little kids will pick them up, but
the gang members will take it away.
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From: Glenn [mailto:[EMAIL
Does Harmon have any decent scotch? I hear that it's a hell hole up there
around 47th St. Could we do this at the Inn at Penn so I don't get shot?
Reyom Nnelg
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From: Kyle Cassidy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Glenn [EMAIL PROTECTED]; University City List
That's funny, Ross, because a friend of mine was just telling me the
complete opposite.
She's raising her kid here as well. She babysat for me about a month ago
and after taking my son to the tot lot was just amazed by the difference
between now and 10 years ago. She spoke at length about
My daughter, born in 1986 and my son, born in 1991 spent much of their
free time in the park, in the bad old days.
They seem well begun.
Katie is a rising Senior at PENN.
Michael is a rising junior at West Catholic.
Much is in perception.
In 1986 there seemed to be fewer 'white' toddlers.
But the
Ross Bender wrote:
What really bugs me about her razzamatazz is the fact that while I've
lived here 22 years as of June 2, I didn't notice any sudden magical
transformation when she blew into town. As other long and longer-term
residents have been witnessing on this list, this has always been
There's no question there are more tots on the ground today than there were
10 years ago, when my son was 4. I was no parental expert when the venerable
Ross was rearing up his Mennonling along the old stone wall in the North
Park. But it seemed to my eye children were few and far between in my
Back when the John Fenton mess hit the fan, I had an offlist conversation
with someone in which I said that I opposed UCD obtaining the power of
taxation because it would make UCD an unelected government answerable only
to the University of Pennsylvania. The other person roundly criticised my
When I arrived in Ye Olde UC Village in 1985, there were SE Asian refugees
warehoused in buildings up and down 48th St. I taught English in Admiral
Court, which at the time was half abandoned. The other wing was full of some
Vietnamese but primarily Cambodians. A few years later, after I had
In a message dated 6/11/07 10:29:25 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
To be fair, I suppose one must admit that Penn and Judy made a difference
in the hood, but to give her all the credit seems a little unrealistic and
mythic, to say the least.
Yes, there is a history in UC of groups /
I am not into book burning, but if I were, I can think of a few texts to
torch that would hold precedence over the new JR work.
So, List neighbors if you were to burn your least favorite book,
What Author?
What Book?
Is When part of the context?
(e.g.
Melani,
This post may be your most twisted perspective on reality, yet.
IMHO, John Fry and Judy Rodin managed our neighborhood as if it were an 8
second Bull-ride.
Life was a Quid Pro Quo Caberet and rule by the aesthetically fussy (with
or without mitigating competence) was endorsed.
In a message dated 6/11/07 2:19:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This post may be your most twisted perspective on reality, yet.
Not sure where we disagree here, Liz. I agreed with Ross that people (in
this case, Penn) claiming credit for things they hadn't done has always been a
problem
In a message dated 6/11/07 2:19:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This post may be your most twisted perspective on reality, yet.
Not sure where we disagree here, Liz.
Melani
Your statement,
The best thing Penn did under Judith Rodin was to stop BADMOUTHING the
neighborhood. ...
it was
Which of course it was. Parents who used the playground during the 1990s
often told of picking up crack vials from the playground in the mornings.
One local artist even made sculptures out of recovered crack paraphernalia.
On Town Watch patrols 1996-99, we did ample surveillance on the occupied
On 6/11/07, Anthony West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which of course it was. Parents who used the playground during the 1990s
often told of picking up crack vials from the playground in the mornings.
One local artist even made sculptures out of recovered crack
paraphernalia.
On Town Watch patrols
I can't speak to how dangerous Clark Park was during the '90s. The
neighborhood as a whole saw more scary activity then than now, I'd say. I was
never afraid in the park, although I knew others were afraid of it. But I was
often cautious about crossing it at night, because the after-dark set
No
Sande Knight
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From: Ross Bendermailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: University City listservmailto:UnivCity@list.purple.com ; [EMAIL
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Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 8:25 PM
Subject: [UC] Out of the Ivory Tower and Into the
Ross Bender wrote:
So now Judy is enshrined as a goddess, who rode the winged horse Market
Forces into our nasty ghetto hood and and built capacity back into a
severely distressed inner-city neighborhood. Makes me wanna hurl chunks.
this is kind of old news. the apotheosis of judy; the
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