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9/15
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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A fraternity that disbanded its University of Oklahoma chapter after members were caught on video engaging in a racist chant is taking steps to become more inclusive, including requiring all of its members, nationwide, to go through diversity training, a fraternity executive said Wednesday. Blaine Ayers, the executive director of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, said at a news conference in Chicago that he was personally disgusted and embarrassed by the video that surfaced last week.
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And now the professors have weighed in: They don’t want Sweet Briar to close, either.
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A black University of Virginia student sustained injuries to his face and head after being detained by a white police officer during an altercation outside of a popular Irish pub in Charlottesville on Tuesday night. The injuries, captured in cell-phone videos and photographs from a crowd of students nearby, left the student with bloody streaks down his face. In one of the videos, the student calls the police offer “racists” as they try to handcuff his hands behind his back.
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Edward Rock of the Law School is quoted.
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Penn State intends to hold accountable the fraternity members who used a private, invitation-only Facebook page to post "appalling, offensive" photos of nude and partly nude women, some apparently asleep or passed out, a university official said.
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Christopher Yoo of the Law School writes about how net neutrality affects the startup culture in Silicon Valley.
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Ian Lustick of the School of Arts & Sciences reacts to the Israeli election.
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New York University, which has become known for its global aspirations as much as its enviable home in Greenwich Village, named the head of one of the world’s most prestigious universities as its 16th president on Wednesday. When the new president, Andrew Hamilton, leaves his post at Oxford University to join N.Y.U. in January, he will be walking into a set of complex challenges. He will be leading a university with aggressive expansion plans, both internationally and in New York, where those plans are tied up in a court battle.
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The president of the University of Maryland reached out Tuesday to the campus community – horrified by an offensive e-mail written by a student – and said he would meet with student leaders after spring break to ta
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President Amy Gutmann is quoted about the opening of the Penn Wharton China Center.