What to Do When the Outrage Is Aimed at Your Campus Chronicle of Higher Education What to Do When the Outrage Is Aimed at Your Campus The email arrived two days after a gunman killed a dozen people at the Washington Navy Yard. A reporter at Campus Reform, a conservative website, was asking the University of Kansas for reaction to a tweet by one of its professors. "The blood is on the hands of the #NRA. Next time let it be YOUR sons and daughters," the tweet had said. The university issued a statement, and the story was posted the next day.
College Calculus The New Yorker College Calculus Peter Cappelli of the Wharton School is quoted about his book Will College Pay Off?
Warning: My Class Is One Big Trigger Huffington Post Warning: My Class Is One Big Trigger Jonathan Moreno of the School or Arts & Sciences and the Perelman School of Medicine blogs about the topics that will be covered in his bioethics course and about not being stifled by providing a warning to students that some topics might be upsetting.
Genetics May Fuel Aggressive Breast Cancers in Black Women Philadelphia Inquirer Genetics May Fuel Aggressive Breast Cancers in Black Women Susan Domchek of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on how results from a breast cancer study might be skewed by the sampling process.
Student Computer Whizzes Compete at PennApps Hackathon Philadelphia Inquirer Student Computer Whizzes Compete at PennApps Hackathon PennApps is featured, and management and technology undergraduate Pranav Vishnu Ramabhadran is quoted.
Law Review: Temple’s Board Dropped the Ball on Cosby Allegations Philadelphia Inquirer Law Review: Temple’s Board Dropped the Ball on Cosby Allegations Ever since the Bill Cosby sexual-assault scandal went viral last year, the Temple University board of trustees has been in a defensive crouch. This is understandable at one level because Cosby was for decades a high-profile trustee and Temple's best-known graduate.
At West Point, Annual Pillow Fight Becomes Weaponized The New York Times At West Point, Annual Pillow Fight Becomes Weaponized For generations, freshmen cadets at the United States Military Academy have marked the end of a grueling summer of training with a huge nighttime pillow fight that is billed as a harmless way to blow off steam and build class spirit.
Egg Shortage Won’t Affect Flu Vaccine Supply Philadelphia Inquirer Egg Shortage Won’t Affect Flu Vaccine Supply Neil Fishman of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about reports indicating a relatively mild flu season.
The Many Pitfalls of Private Student Loans The New York Times The Many Pitfalls of Private Student Loans Mallory Rego, the first member of her family to attend college, says she now sees that she put too much blind faith in the power of education. After graduating in 2008 from Emmanuel College, a liberal arts school in Boston, she enrolled in a graduate program nearby that would have certified her to help children cope when undergoing stressful medical treatments.