5/18
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U-Mich. Survey: 22.5% of Female Undergrads Were Victims of Sexual Misconduct
More than 20 percent of female undergraduates at the University of Michigan said they were victims of non-consensual sexual behavior within the past year, the school said Wednesday in releasing results of a campus survey on sexual misconduct. Often, Michigan officials said, victims reported that they were verbally pressured into sexual contact without their consent. The pressure included lies, threats, criticism and expressions of anger after victims said they didn’t want to engage in sexual activity.
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Senate Plan Portends Budget Battles
A U.S. Senate subcommittee on Tuesday passed a spending bill for health, labor and education programs that would increase funds for biomedical research and boost the maximum Pell Grant -- but slash spending on workforce training and AmeriCorps and block the Obama administration from implementing regulations relating to gainful employment for vocational programs and its college rating system.
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First Trimester Stress Linked to Brain Disorders
Postdoctoral researcher Eldin Jašarevi of the School of Veterinary Medicine is quoted about studying the effects of stress during pregnancy.
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U-Va. Acknowledges Its Slave History
When the Rev. William Gibbons died in 1886, 10,000 people attended his funeral in Washington. A second service in Charlottesville stopped traffic and commerce as throngs of mourners from the black community rushed to the Baptist church. Gibbons and his wife lived and died at a time of great change, from slavery – they were owned by professors at the University of Virginia — to emancipation, to leadership and great renown. Now U-Va. is telling their stories, and naming a new dorm in their honor, as the university delves into the darker side of its storied past.
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6 Surprising Signs You May Have ADHD
Anthony Rostain of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on signs of adult attention-deficient/hyperactivity disorder.
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Police Shootings in Philadelphia Plunge
David Rudovsky of the Law School comments on the reduction in shootings in Philadelphia.
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Reining In a Fraternity Is No Easy Task, One University’s Leaders Learn
It was a messy affair when the University of North Carolina at Wilmington closed its chapter of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, in 2012. The group was kicked off campus for providing alcohol to minors, sponsoring a social affair after its activities were supposed to be suspended, and then lying to university officials about having done so. So far, the fraternity’s return to the campus isn’t going much better.
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Audio: Home Sales – and Optimism – Rise
Susan Wachter of the Wharton School talks about the current status of homeownership in America.
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U-Mich. President: It’s Time We Talk Openly About Sexual Misconduct
This viewpoint from the University of Michigan’s president comes as the prestigious public flagship is releasing data from a survey of its students about sexual misconduct. Read about the survey here. The university in Ann Arbor has about 28,000 undergraduate and 15,000 graduate students. — Nick Anderson
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Don’t Blame Subprime for the Foreclosure Crisis – It’s About Home Values, Period
Fernando Ferreira and Joseph Gyourko of the Wharton School are featured for researching the impact of subprime mortgages on the financial crisis.