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Amazon Wants to Scan Your License Plate
Joseph Turow of the Annenberg School for Communication comments on license-plate reader data and marketing.
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Strings Attached
Is a gift that can be taken back at any time a gift at all? That's what faculty members at the University of Kentucky are asking in light of a proposed $10 million center for the study of free enterprise, to be funded by the Charles Koch Foundation and Kentucky resident John Schnatter, of Papa John's Pizza fame. After a split vote by the Senate Council, the full University Senate voted this week in a symbolic motion to endorse the center's academic mission -- but not its terms.
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Hollwich Kushner Creates University of Pennsylvania Incubator Space With Spiky Glass Façade
The architecture and design of the Pennovation Center are featured.
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Temple Makes Acting President Permanent
Richard M. Englert began his career at Temple University 40 years ago as a professor of educational administration. Since then, he's been a vice president, an associate dean, a dean, a deputy provost and provost, chief of staff, chancellor, and acting president, twice. His resumé became complete Tuesday when Temple's board named him president. "He's earned the right to this appointment," said Kevin Feeley, a spokesman for Temple's board. "He has the full confidence of the board."
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How ‘The Birth of a Nation’ Silences Black Women
Salamishah Tillet of the School of Arts & Sciences reviews “The Birth of a Nation” and the role of women in the film.
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A Student Fee to Respond to Sexual Assault
Students at the University of Maryland at College Park may soon pay an extra student fee to help cover the costs of the university's struggling office that investigates sexual assault. The $34 fee, approved by the university’s student government last month and reported by BuzzFeed News Tuesday, was widely criticized, with advocates saying it is highly unusual for students to fund services to combat sexual assault and ensure that their university remains compliant with federal law.
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How Trump’s ‘Locker Room Talk’ Plays on College Campuses
At Connecticut College, as at a growing number of campuses nationwide, students are encouraged to speak up if they hear remarks celebrating or condoning sexual aggression against women. In one training scenario, male students ask a peer if he really means it when he boasts of such conduct. So when news broke that Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, had bragged of groping women, and then trivialized it as "locker room talk," it felt to some students like a repudiation of their efforts.
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Video: “Right-wing Extremism Is on the Rise in Europe” – Mitchell Orenstein and Daniel Kelemen
Mitchell Orenstein of the School of Arts & Sciences talks about right-wing extremism in Europe.
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As U. of Florida Law Dean Calls Out Sexism, Her Rankings-Driven Regime Comes Under Fire
An alumnus in Orlando told her he didn’t remember a dean with "legs like that." The star editor of the law review described her as "young and vivacious," parroting a phrase he’d picked up from his mentor. Faculty members and graduates have called her a careerist, whose singular focus on national rankings has come at the expense of collegial consultation and respect for beloved professors.
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No End in Sight to Strike by Harvard’s Cafeteria Workers Over Wages
A dispute over wages and benefits between Harvard and its cafeteria workers has led to a strike that is now in its seventh day, with no immediate resolution in sight, an official at the nation’s wealthiest university said on Tuesday. Harvard was relying on employees who volunteered to work in the university’s dining halls, which were operating on a skeleton schedule and offering reduced options and boxed lunches.