Penn in the News

The Death of Tucker Hipps: How the Mystery of a Pledge’s Plunge From a Bridge Highlights Fraternities’ Fatal Flaws

The fraternity pledges gathered for a run before dawn. In single file, led by three brothers, the 27 pledges set out for about two miles, turning onto Old Greenville Highway, crossing the bridge over Lake Hartwell and back. One of them, Tucker Hipps, never returned. The sophomore’s body was found that afternoon, floating under the bridge.

Do Fraternities Have a Place on the Modern Campus?

Defending Their Homes

 Marie Gottschalk of the School of Arts & Sciences comments on Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow.

The Surprising Reason Your Salary Isn’t Growing

Iwan Barankay of the Wharton School says, “Performance-related pay, of which bonuses are an example, will become more and more prevalent.”

Calling the Question

At U-Va., a Flood of Donations Rescues a Storied Student Newspaper

Over the past several years, they could hardly have had bigger news to report. The young journalists at the Cavalier Daily, the University of Virginia’s student newspaper, covered stories that made international headlines: murder, leadership, crises, allegations of rape and racial attacks. But even as its student reporters were going after the news, the paper’s business side was struggling.

4 Ways That Campus and Local Police Work Together (and Some Ways They Don’t)

Hong Kong Has the Third Most Think Tanks Per Capita in Asia, but Not One Ranked Globally

James McGann of the Wharton School and School of Arts and Sciences is quoted about leadership in public policy research.

Waiting for the Bomb to Drop

 Paul Saint-Amour of the School of Arts & Sciences pens an op-ed related to his new book, Tense Future: Modernism, Total War, Encyclopedic Form.

Cheney University Faces Enrollment, Financial Problems

 Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education comments on marketing strategies to help Cheney University recruit students.