Julie Gutowski

Few students would want to go back to eating lunch at their elementary-school cafeterias. But that is exactly what Jan Poppendieck does. A professor of sociology at Hunter College, a part of the City University of New York, Poppendieck studies poverty, hunger and food assistance in the United States.

Richard Clarke called on students last night to enter government to fight corruption. Addressing a crowd of 700 to 800 students and community members in the Annenberg Center's Zellerbach Theatre, Clarke, a former counterterrorism czar and 1972 Penn alumnus, spoke about ethical issues currently affecting the U.

You may think you are too nice to make it in the cutthroat world of investigative journalism, but, according to Judy Bachrach, even nice people can be good reporters. At an intimate lunchtime conversation in Kelly Writers House yesterday, Bachrach, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair magazine, spoke with a dozen Penn students about her experiences as an investigative reporter.

When it comes to leveling the educational playing field, wealth is more important than race, says sociology professor Dalton Conley. Dalton Conley, professor of sociology and public policy at New York University, spoke yesterday in Logan Hall about the relationship between wealth and education to a group of faculty and Graduate School of Education students as part of the "Race in the Academy" series.