11/15
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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When Does Unwanted Sex Become Rape?
After a long Saturday of drinking, a female student was hanging out with a male classmate she’d been flirting with for years. He was charming but also a player. They’d talked about his various sexual conquests, and she didn’t want to be one. But that night they started making out. It was exciting, she said, fun. When he grabbed a condom, though, she realized she didn’t want to have sex.
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State of Union: Rethinking the Big Speech That Isn’t So Big Anymore; Less Drama, More Noise
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center is quoted about the diminishing impact of the State of the Union address.
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Crossed Wires
Ruben Gur of the Perelman School of Medicine says “Detailed connectome maps of the brain will not only help us understand the differences between how men and women think, but it will also give us more
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Disciplines That Expect ‘Brillance’ Tend to Punish Women, Study Finds
Here’s a downside to our cultural obsession with genius: It might be a reason for the gender gap in certain academic fields. New research has found that women tend to be underrepresented in disciplines whose practitioners think innate talent or "brilliance" is required to succeed.
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Women Deterred From Many Fields by Stereotypes of ‘Brilliance’
Jerry Jacobs of the School of Arts & Sciences says, “Women tend to think they have to be the next Einstein before they become a physicist.”
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Data Show Which Top-Ranked Colleges Operate Most Efficiently
Ohio's Miami University—Oxford took top honors as the most efficient school among National Universities and Michigan's Hope College was most efficient among
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Forgetting Title IX?
Recent and upcoming changes to National Collegiate Athletic Association rules -- including a new pilot program that will provide travel expenses to the families of basketball players who play in national championship games -- are rife with “serious Title IX complications,” a panel of gender equity experts said here Wednesday. “We’re seeing a sea change in college athletics and people are scrambling,” Erin Buzuvis,
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The Least Economically Diverse Top College, Seeking to Change
The leaders of Washington University in St. Louis have decided that it has a distinction they no longer want: the nation’s least economically diverse top college. Only 6 percent of undergraduates at Wash.
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Minority Serving Institutions Left Out of Community College Conversation
Marybeth Gasman and doctoral student Andrés Castro Samayoa of the Graduate School of Education contribute their thoughts on minority-serving institutions and President Obama’s free community college proposal.
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Questioning Debit Card Deals
Federal consumer protection officials want colleges to more thoroughly vet the agreements they make with financial institutions to provide banking products on campus.