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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
Penn In the News
In the wake of deadly unrest in Charlottesville, activists at rivals Duke University and the University of North Carolina seemed to race toward a goal far removed from the basketball court: taking down their respective statues of Confederate soldiers.
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Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education comments on the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions’ cohort of the MSI Aspiring Leaders program.
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Evan Lechtman of the Law School comments on the deadline for the NFL’s settlement fund for concussion-related claims.
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Michael Uram of Penn Hillel comments on how recent Nazi marches are affecting Jewish students.
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In a major concession to Chinese government censors, Cambridge University Press blocked access in China to more than 300 articles and reviews in the journal The China Quarterly, which Cambridge publishes.
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Rogers Smith of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted on how a person’s anxiety can inflate the perception of the actual crime rate.
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Students involved in Greek life at Pennsylvania State University have returned to school this week under new rules and guidelines announced last spring following the death of sophomore pledge Tim Piazza.
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Jonathan Zimmerman of the Graduate School of Education wrote a defense of keeping Confederate-era statues.
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Duke University on Saturday announced that it had removed a statue of Robert E. Lee from the entrance to the university chapel. On Sunday night, the University of Texas at Austin announced it would remove statues of Lee and three other Confederate leaders from a prominent campus location.
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A group of alumni have announced plans to return their Liberty University degrees as a protest against President Donald Trump.