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11/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
President Amy Gutmann, Chuck Leitner and Mike Murphy of Penn Athletics comment on the Young Quakers Community Athletics program.
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William Whitaker of the School of Design speaks of Philadelphia architect Louis Kahn saying, “He was a master of natural light and creating pace for natural light in his buildings.”
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No one following the Steven Salaita case was surprised Thursday when the displaced scholar announced he’s suing top administrators of the University of Illinois System and its Urbana-Champaign campus. Salaita had been trying for months to force the university to give him back the tenured professorship in the American Indian studies program he says is his.
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Scott Barry Kaufman of the School of Arts & Sciences is cited for researching what activities undergraduate students perceive to have sex appeal.
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Wealthy donors are fueling a boom in gifts to major-college sports programs, with the biggest athletics departments reporting a total of more than $1-billion in donations last year, according to a survey released this week by the Council for Aid to Education. It’s the third time in the past four years that sports gifts have topped $1-billion.
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Last week’s report that King’s College London has dropped its plan to become known as King’s London has rekindled the debate on institutional rebrands. Here are some of the dos and don’ts of name changes in Britain -- and whether it is really worth it.
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Jonah Berger of the Wharton School comments on TurboTax’s price increase.
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center is quoted about civics and education. A civic ignorance study from the APPC is also cited.
Penn In the News
It started on a Texas farm called Hard Scrabble. It was there that Robert B. Jackson, now a professor of environmental earth system science at Stanford University, encountered the gas boom to come. His father-in-law, the environmental writer John Graves, had made Hard Scrabble famous in his books. So Mr. Jackson was surprised, nearly a decade ago, when news came that Mr.
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University of Virginia President Teresa A.