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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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The Lives of People With HIV Have Changed Dramatically. How We Treat Them Has Not
Neil Fishman of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about how people living with HIV are treated by others.
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Margaret Spellings Reportedly Is Top Contender for U. of North Carolina Presidency
Margaret Spellings, a former U.S. secretary of education under George W. Bush, is a finalist in the search for a new president of the University of North Carolina system, and she will meet with the university’s Board of Governors in an emergency session on Friday, The News and Observer reports, citing unidentified sources “with direct knowledge” of the search. Ms. Spellings is the only candidate scheduled to meet with the board on Friday, the Raleigh newspaper said.
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Former Stanford Dean Explains Why Helicopter Parenting Is Ruining a Generation of Children
Julie Lythcott-Haims noticed a disturbing trend during her decade as a dean of freshmen at Stanford University. Incoming students were brilliant and accomplished and virtually flawless, on paper. But with each year, more of them seemed incapable of taking care of themselves. At the same time, parents were becoming more and more involved in their children’s lives. They talked to their children multiple times a day and swooped in to personally intervene whenever something difficult happened.
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Canvassing Campus
The dismal 21.5 percent youth turnout during the 2014 midterm elections had many pundits crowing about apathetic millennials, but presidential elections are a different story for young voters and college students, particularly in the age of Obama. Exit polls put the under-30 cohort of the electorate in 2012 at almost one in five, or 19 percent, which is one point above the rate in 2008 when young people played a decisive role in electing President Obama. For that election college students, who make up more than a third of voters under 24, turned out in droves.
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Miami Dolphins Owner Backs New Effort to Combat Racism
Kenneth Shropshire of the Wharton School is cited for his work with professional football coach Stephen M. Ross’ nonprofit organization aimed at using athletes and sports to combat racism.
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When Overseeing a University System Means Defusing Lawmaker Outrage
Joseph A. DiPietro, president of the University of Tennessee system, has been facing some serious tests of his political skills as controversy has swirled around efforts to make the system’s campuses more diverse and inclusive. On Wednesday, Mr. DiPietro faced intense questioning about the university’s spending on diversity at a hearing of the State Senate’s subcommittee on higher education. Lawmakers there questioned whether the system actually has any measurable goals for its diversity efforts, or whether it will always want to spend more to do more.
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Try, Try Again? Psychologists Question the Value of ‘Grit'
The “grit” study by Angela Duckworth of the School of Arts and Sciences is discussed and challenged.
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These Philly Companies Offer Unlimited Paid Vacation
Stewart Friedman of the Wharton School talks about the purpose of unlimited paid vacation time that some companies offer.
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Not Getting 8 Hours of Sleep? Neither Do Hunter-gatherers
David Dinges of the Perelman School of Medicine expresses his hesitancy in applying a study’s findings about the sleep patterns of preindustrial, hunter-gatherer societies to people in Western society.
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Audio: Liberal: No Longer a Dirty Word?
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center says that Democratic voters are not fully embracing “liberal” yet.