11/15
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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5 Researched-based Reasons to Be Kind
Martin Seligman of the School of Arts & Sciences is cited for conducting a study about the effects of writing and hand delivering thank-you notes to people.
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Stanford to Ban Students Found Guilty of Sexual Assault
At most colleges, if you're found responsible for sexual assault, you may be suspended. But at Stanford University, you'll likely be booted off campus permanently: Starting this fall, officials recommend making expulsion the default punishment for sexual assault.
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This Time, Hillary Clinton Plays Up Her Gender and Key Issues for Women
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center comments on Hillary Clinton’s strategy as a female presidential candidate.
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HUD Loan Sales Help HUD More Than Hard-hit Homeowners
Susan Wachter of the Wharton School comments on the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department.
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Now Everyone’s an Entrepreneur
By the time she was a junior, Mackenzie Burnett had put herself on course for a career in foreign policy. Her résumé was stacked with government internships, extensive service work, and a stellar academic record at the University of Maryland. Then a friend told her about Startup Shell. A bunch of students had cleared out a storage room on campus and were using it to work on personal projects at night, like 3-D mapping software. Ms.
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The Next Mayor Should Do More Than Just Tweak Business Taxes
Robert Inman of the Wharton School shares his views on what the next mayor of Philadelphia should focus on in terms of the city’s economy.
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See If You Can Guess Why BuzzFeed Deleted These Three Posts
Victor Pickard of the Annenberg School for Communication says, “As the distinctions between advertising the news operations continue to blur, we can expect more of these controversies in the future.”
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Anxiety in Missoula Over Book About Campus Assaults
This town is bracing for a book. The local prosecutor wrote an urgent letter to its publishers trying to delay its release. Book sellers are taking orders for copies that wait in sealed boxes, ready to be opened on Tuesday. Some people are dreading its revelations about rape in their football-loving college town. Others are glad: Tell the story, they say, the louder the better.
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Inside Look at Ratings Plan
The U.S. Department of Education has set aside more than $4 million to develop the Obama administration’s college ratings system, newly released federal documents show. The department has hired a nonprofit research company to analyze data about colleges, test different ratings models and build a website for the ratings. It has so far paid at least $1.8 million for the firm, Research Triangle Institute, to get started on that work.
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When One Partner Makes More Than the Other
Olivia Mitchell of the Wharton School reviews the two different effects on a relationship when women make more than their partners.