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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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UNC President On the ‘Bathroom Law’ and Higher Ed Reform
The new leader of the University of North Carolina system has much more on her mind than who should be allowed to use which bathrooms on campus. “There’s a lot more at issue in higher education than this particular issue,” UNC President Margaret Spellings said last week during a visit to Washington. “I mean, come on.” Among those other topics, she said, are affordability, access and student success in a 17-campus system with nearly 225,000 students.
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Most Voters Haven’t Changed Their Minds All Year
Dan Hopkins of the School of Arts & Sciences writes about Americans who have not changed their minds about which candidate they will cast their vote for in the upcoming presidential election.
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You’re Probably Tired of the Presidential Race, but Long Campaigns Are a Good Thing
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center comments on the benefits of long presidential campaigns.
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Bob Dylan, a Laureate Sure, but by What Measure a Poet
Anthony DeCurtis of the School of Arts & Sciences comments on teaching with text penned by Bob Dylan.
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Ride-sharing Services and Boundary-blurring Buildings: A Vision of the Future Campus
Once upon a time, campus buildings had clearly delineated missions that rarely overlapped. As Lauren Scranton, a campus-planning expert, puts it: "This is where you sleep. This is where you go to class." That appears to be changing, and technology is often the catalyst. Look no further than what’s happening to college libraries: These days they’re designed to be social hubs as much as book repositories.
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Science Says This Is the Best Motivation to Exercise
Damon Centola of the Annenberg School for Communication and the School of Engineering and Applied Science is quoted about people using competition as a motivation to exercise.
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US Election: Where You Can ‘Write In’ a Name on Ballot
Rogers Smith of the School of Arts & Sciences comments on the odds of a write-in candidate winning the presidential election.
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What Happens to the House That Secures a Reverse Mortgage?
Jack Guttentag of the Wharton School writes about reverse mortgages and the impact of the HECM program.
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Time, Flies
Amita Sehgal of the Perelman School of Medicine is profiled for studying the sleep-wake cycle of fruit flies and the human body’s circadian and sleep rhythms.
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Harvard General Counsel to Review Men’s Soccer Player’s Sexually Explicit ‘Scouting Report’
Harvard’s Office of General Counsel will “conduct an immediate review” of the 2012 men’s soccer team’s fake “scouting report” that ranked freshmen recruits for the women’s soccer team in an explicit and sexual manner, University President Drew Faust said in a statement Tuesday. “I was deeply disturbed to read the news reporting concerning the men’s soccer team,” she said. “Such behavior is appalling and completely at odds with the mutual respect that is a fundamental value of our community. The offensive and derogatory remarks reported by The Crimson have no place at Harvard.”