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4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
Because of rising concerns about college campus safety nationwide, Villanova University announced Monday that it will add armed police officers to its campus, beginning in Fall 2016. The Catholic university currently has a 75-member public safety department, responsible for patrol, investigations, parking enforcement, residence hall and building security, crime prevention and special-event security. But the department’s security officers can’t use lights or sirens when responding to an emergency on the 260-acre, Main Line campus, said Villanova spokesman Jonathan Gust.
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When transgender students fill out college applications, they often run into trouble right out of the box — or, rather, in the box that students typically must check to indicate their biological gender. The gender identities of some people may not conform to a binary of biological male or female, much less align with what’s listed on their birth certificates. Colleges also expect potential students to enroll under the legal name that matches their government-issued ID and school records, not the name they may have chosen to represent their gender identity.
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Ezekiel Emanuel of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School comments on physician-assisted death for terminally ill patients and the costs associated for insurers.
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After receiving basic health insurance while working for a small consulting company, Kevin J. Reuning, a would-be graduate student, was pleased to learn about Pennsylvania State University’s generous plan. During a recruitment event, a Penn State doctoral student told him that her out-of-pocket costs for having a baby had been $75 total. But now, two years after starting his Ph.D. program in political science, his deductible has more than tripled, to $250, premiums have increased, and coverage has been reduced. Mr.
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Tell Sgt. Dustin Young he’s not a real cop. He has broken up drunken brawls, pulled a four-foot snake out of a building, and investigated countless cases of sexual assault. A few years ago, he saw a young man walking toward tracks and an oncoming train. Sergeant Young raced up, grabbed the hood of his sweatshirt, and yanked him back just before the train roared by. It came so close that it cut the man’s ear and tore off his shoe. For 14 years, Sergeant Young has been a policeman here on Miami University’s main campus of 20,000. He has saved lives and seen some lost.
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It pains this old logic professor to read university officials’ arguments against divesting their institutions of investments in fossil fuels, not because their refusal to divest is wrong-headed, although I believe it is, but because their logic is so awful. A sample of Ivy League universities’ antidivestment statements offers a primer in the fallacies that students are warned against in Logic 101.
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Kate Davis and Ravinder Reddy of the Perelman School of Medicine are quoted about a new imaging technique in development to treat epilepsy patients.
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When word got out that the University of North Carolina system’s Board of Governors was holding an emergency session on Friday to meet with one finalist for the system’s presidency — and that the finalist was Margaret Spellings, a former secretary of education under President George W. Bush — it quickly became the topic of the day in higher-education circles. The news was the latest chapter in a series of highly divisive and politically charged episodes that began in January, when Thomas W. Ross, the system’s president, was pushed out by a Republican-led board.
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G. Richard Shell of the Wharton School suggests ways to deal with unexpected developments during the interview process.
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Neil Fishman of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about how people living with HIV are treated by others.