Speaking Out
More on Escort
With respect to the exchange of letters in the
September 10 Almanac on whether Escort Service should be curtailed to Center City, we believe that the University's limited services and resources are best focused on the neighborhoods west of campus on which Penn's future well-being most depends. The overall goal of all Penn's efforts in this area are well-stated by Managing Director Seamon--to make the campus area (we would expand this to
include the residential areas around campus) a "more vibrant place to shop, dine and gather [by generating] a heavy, constant flow of pedestrians."
We also agree with Frances Hoenigswald that there is a need for open and informed discussion by people who use the Escort Service and those who control policy in this area about the Service's purpose and scope before any major change in policy is implemented. Penn's future depends fundamentally on its success in the next 5-10 years in providing a stable, living/learning environment in its surrounding neighborhoods. How Escort Service evolves is an important part of that future.
--Richard Shell, Professor of Legal Studies, Wharton, endorsed by the following subscribers to pfsni@mec.sas.upenn.edu, the list-serv of Penn Faculty and Staff for Neighborhood Issues
- Janet G. Ackerman, Associate Director, Development and Alumni Relations
- David B. Brownlee, Professor of the History of Art
- Ann Blair Brownlee, Research Specialist, University Museum
- Carolyn P. Burdon, Executive Assistant to the Faculty Senate Chair
- Marie-Francoise Chesselet, Adjunct Professor of Pharmacology
- Doris S. Cochran-Fikes, Director, Alumni Secondary School Committees, Admissions
- Linda G. Cook, Research Specialist, Student Health Services, VPUL
- Roberta L. Dougherty, Bibliographer & Head, Middle East Technical Services, University Libraries
- Mihaela Farcas, Assistant Director, Office of Off-Campus Living
- Robert Gelfand, Assistant Director, Institute For Environmental Medicine
- Mary Morris Heiberger, Associate Director, Career Planning &
Placement, SSW
- Mary Day Kent, Coordinator, International Classroom, Museum
- Elaine Hughes Jenson, Assistant to the Dean, GSE
- Eric J. Johnson, Professor of Marketing, Operations & Information Management
- Anne E. Kringel, Legal Writing Director, Law School
- Lynn Hollen Lees, Professor of History
- Paul Lukasiak, Administrative Assistant, SSW
- Gerard McCartney, Executive Director, Wharton Computing Info Technology
- Ann E. Mayer, Associate Professor of Legal Studies
- Hannah Poole, Business Administrator, History
- Terry Reisine, Professor of Pharmacology
- Michele Richman, Associate Professor of French
- Brian M. Salzberg, Professor of Neuroscience & Physiology
- Brian Spooner, Professor of Anthropology
- Joyce C. White, Research Specialist, University Museum
- David Williams, Professor of Psychology
Almanac
Volume 43 Number 4
September 17, 1996
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