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Another Challenge on Campus Sexual Assault: Getting Minority Students to Report It
Reporting a campus sexual assault can be difficult, even traumatic, for any student. But for minority students who have been assaulted, speaking up can be an especially daunting prospect. Many of those students may simply not know how to go about reporting an assault. Many more may not feel that the conversations about sexual assault that have cascaded across campuses over the last year even apply to them, experts say. Increasingly, advocates for sexual-assault victims wonder: Are colleges doing enough to bring those minority students into the fold?
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Nip. Tuck. Or Else.
David Sarwer of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted on plastic surgery trends.
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University of Washington and Chinese University Unite to Form Technology Institute
With hometown companies like Amazon and Microsoft, this bustling region on the Puget Sound easily ranks in the top tier of technology hubs in the United States. But the area lags its peers in one glaring way: It is home to a single major research university, the University of Washington, while nearly every other big technology scene in the country has at least two. For years, that weakness has stoked local unease about whether the gap between the supply of people with computer-related degrees and the surge in demand for those skills could impede the region’s economy.
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Prosecutors Outlines Why He Dropped Charges Against Black U-Va. Student
University of Virginia student Martese Johnson was doing nothing wrong the night he ended up bloodied and in a jail cell after an encounter with state Alcoholic Beverage Control officers, a prosecutor said Wednesday. Charlottesville Commonwealth’s Attorney Dave Chapman spent more than two hours publicly laying out the evidence from a Virginia State Police investigation into the 33-second incident early March 18 during St. Patrick’s Day celebrations. Photographs depicting Johnson, who is black, on the ground underneath a white officer went viral online and sparked protests on the U-Va.
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The Subprime Mortgage Crisis Wasn’t About Subprime Mortgages
Fernando Ferreira and Joseph Gyourko of the Wharton School are mentioned for their new working paper that argues “the idea that subprime lending triggered the crisis is misguided.”
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Hyperlipidemia May Hike Risk of Allograft Rejection
Deirdre Sawinski and Jonathan Maltzman of the Perelman School of Medicine share their thoughts on how environmental factors can alter the response to organ transplantation.
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Bipartisan Group Urges Overhaul of General Election Debates
A bipartisan group sponsored by the Annenberg Public Policy Center is featured for recommending changes to the general election presidential debates.
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Rachel Dolezal Defended by Black Scholar: ‘Let Her Be a Black Woman, It’s Not Going to Hurt Anybody’
Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education shares her thoughts on a Rachel Dolezal, a white woman who posed as black.
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Greece: ‘The Odds of Default Get Shorter and Shorter’
Commentary on Greece’s financial problems from Mauro Guillen of the Wharton School is cited.
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Go Ahead, Get That Liberal Arts Degree
Peter Cappelli of the Wharton School critiques the shift toward “occupationally-focused majors and degrees.”