11/15
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Federal Ban on Same-sex Marriages Still Casts Shadow on Many Lives
Tobias Barrington Wolff of the Law School comments on federal bans on same-sex marriage.
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UVA Fraternity Reinstated After Rolling Stone Article on Rape
The University of Virginia, after receiving guidance from the local police, on Monday reinstated the fraternity at the center of a Rolling Stone magazine article that detailed gang rape allegations that later came int
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Obama to Call for Laws Covering Data Hacking and Student Privacy
President Obama on Monday will call for federal legislation intended to force American companies to be more forthcoming when credit card data and other consumer information are lost in an online breach like the kind that hit Sony, Tar
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Psychologist Paul Rozin on Wasting Food
Paul Rozin of the School of Arts & Sciences is featured for his thoughts on wasting food.
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53 Historians Weigh In on Barack Obama’s Legacy
Thomas Sugrue of the School of Arts & Sciences contributes his thoughts on the legacy of President Obama.
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Obama’s Free-College Plan Evokes Spirit of Historic Higher Ed Acts
With a proposal that would send millions of students to community colleges free, President Obama joins a line of national leaders who have asked taxpayers to foot other people’s tuition bills for the greater public good.
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A Signal of Distaste for Dynasties Bodes Ill for Bush, Clinton
Peter Hart of the Annenberg Public Policy Center is mentioned for conducting a focus group where voters talked about candidates for the next presidential campaign.
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Behind the Statistics on Campus Rape
When journalists and politicians talk about campus rape—as they have frequently over the past several months—they tend to pluck numbers out of context. Studies done on one or two campuses are said to represent the country. Estimates become facts. The reality is that measuring sexual violence remains a challenge.
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Behind the Statistics on Campus Rape
When journalists and politicians talk about campus rape—as they have frequently over the past several months—they tend to pluck numbers out of context. Studies done on one or two campuses are said to represent the country. Estimates become facts. The reality is that measuring sexual violence remains a challenge.
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Dutch Open Access Fight
Dutch universities have vowed not to soften their groundbreaking demands for publishers to permit all papers published by their academics to be made open access for no extra charge. In January last year, Sander Dekker, the Dutch minister for education, culture and science, decreed that 60 percent of Dutch research articles must be open access by 2019 and 100 percent by 2024.