4/22
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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Why I Won’t Reenlist as a Yale Alumni Interviewer
Last year, I conducted alumni interviews for Yale applicants. It's an easy gig. You take a smart, ambitious 17-year-old out for hot chocolate, ask him about his life and then report back to the university, “Yup, this is another great kid.” I recently got an email asking me to reenlist. Was I ready for another admissions season? I checked “No,” mostly because “Never again” wasn't an option. I hold no grudge. I have no ax to grind.
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Penn to Get $15 Million Gift for the Arts
President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price comment on the creation of the Sachs Program for Arts Innovation funded by a $15 million gift from alumni Keith and Katherine Sachs.
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What People Did When an Ivy League Professor Wrote Faculty of Color Don’t Get Jobs Because ‘We Don’t Want Them’
Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education about the response to her essay about why university faculties remain predominately white.
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U-Va. College Republicans Rescind Support for Trump
The University of Virginia College Republicans have voted to rescind the club’s endorsement of Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump following the public release of remarks he made about women in a 2005 video. The club voted 65 to 54 to drop its support for the candidate after a video published by The Washington Post showed Trump having an extremely lewd conversation about women.
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Yale Apologizes for Images on Football Program
Yale University's athletics department has apologized for the use of stereotypical and degrading images of Native Americans that were reproduced in the program for Saturday's football game against Dartmouth College. Dartmouth has long abandoned its former team name, Indians, but many of the programs date to the era when the name was used and Yale (and other colleges) mocked the Indians in programs for athletic events.
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Political Junkie: If Your Candidate Loses, Will You Give the Winner a Chance?
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center talks about what happens if the candidate someone votes for loses.
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Big Philly Employer Adds New Benefit for Bicycle Commuters
Penn is highlighted for adding a new benefit for employees who are also bicycle commuters.
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It’s Not You. It’s Your Students
Many studies point to professors being more liberal than the rest of society, but little research says there is discrimination against students based on their political views. At the same time, anecdotes abound of students who believe that their professors are showing political bias -- even if other students in the same class disagree. A new study (abstract available here) offers an explanation for the students' perceptions that doesn't necessarily suggest that the bias is real or entirely discount the perceptions, either.
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Prepare for Retirement Emergencies With a HECM Reverse Mortgage
Jack Guttentag of the Wharton School writes about how to prepare for retirement emergencies.
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Audio: Clinton vs. Trump, Take Two
Dean Michael Delli Carpini of the Annenberg School for Communication joins a conversation about the second presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.