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Colleges, Tech Firms Joining Forces to Try to Make Campus Life Safer
Colleges and universities are teaming up with technology entrepreneurs in an effort to keep students safe — on and off campus — by using their smartphones. Mobile apps geared toward campus safety are booming: with a few clicks, text messages will contact friends or social media, employ GPS to pinpoint a location and automatically connect to 911. Many will connect to campus security offices and national emergency hotlines. Others use countdown timers that will automatically send messages and GPS information if a user is past due at a destination.
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Guns, Prisons, Social Causes: New Fronts Emerge in Campus Fights Over Divestment
At many colleges, victories have been slow to accumulate for campus activists who have pressured their institutions to ban certain investments from their endowments. There are hundreds of active campaigns that seek divestment from fossil-fuel companies, yet a much smaller number of colleges have actually pledged to follow through on those demands. But student activists say they scored an important victory last week, when Columbia University decided to divest from for-profit prison companies.
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Foreign Grad-School Applications Rise, Driven by Indian Candidates
International applications to U.S. graduate schools rose 2% this year, driven by double-digit growth from Indian candidates and interest in science and engineering programs but tempered by declining demand from Chinese prospects. This marks the 10th straight year of gains in applications from foreign candidates, according to a preliminary tally by the Council of Graduate Schools, based on reports from 377 schools that educate the bulk of international graduate students. U.S.
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Audio: The Supreme Court: Lethal Injections and Same-sex Marriage
Tobias Barrington Wolff of the Law School discusses the opinions in the Supreme Court’s rulings on same-sex marriage and lethal injections.
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Court Allows N.Y.U.’s Contested Expansion Plan to Go Forward
The state’s highest court on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling allowing New York University to move forward with its expansion plan, most likely ending a long battle with neighbors, elected officials, preservationists and faculty members. The contentious plan would add about 1.9 million square feet of space across four buildings, including classrooms, dormitories and offices, to the largely low-slung neighborhood of Greenwich Village. About 900,000 square feet of that would be underground, according to the university.
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Working to Death
Adam Finkel of the Law School is quoted about standards from the Occupational Safety & Health Administration and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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Outsourced Campus Judges
Campus hearings, even when they’re regarding an activity as serious as sexual assault, are not courtrooms. It's a distinction that the U.S. Department of Education has embraced, requiring colleges to conduct their own investigations into claims of sexual assault, and to adjudicate those cases under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Colleges use “preponderance of evidence” instead of “beyond reasonable doubt” as the standard of proof. If a student is found in violation of campus rules, he or she is “responsible” for the misconduct, not “guilty” of a crime.
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Gut Check: Are You Using Social Media for Customer Insights?
A study about financial behavior co-authored by Nicholas Souleles of the Wharton School is cited.
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Philadelphia Smoking Rates Hit New Low
Kenneth Margulies of the Perelman School of Medicine suggests that Philadelphia’s smoking rates will continue to decline with shifting attitudes, policy changes and penalties.
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Short on Sleep? Eat More Spinach and Peanut Butter to Improve Your Memory
Andrea Spaeth of the Perelman School of Medicine offers ways to improve daily functionality for people who are lacking sleep.