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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Welcome to an Age Where the Facts Don’t Matter
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center comments on the impact of factcheck.org, the non-partisan website she co-founded.
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‘It Just Happened’
Either by choice or when required to do by state legislation, colleges in recent years have moved toward a policy of affirmative consent.
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Why Breeding Bulldogs Is Borderline Inhumane
James Serpell of the School of Veterinary Medicine is quoted about what it means to adhere to breed standards.
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Title IX Victory for Man Suing Over Sex Assault Finding
A federal appeals court on Friday revived a lawsuit accusing Columbia University of engaging in illegal antimale bias in the way it responded in 2013 to a female student's allegation of sex assault by a male student. The suit was filed under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which bars sex discrimination by colleges receiving federal funds. The finding could be significant not only for those in the case but for many other colleges involved in litigation over their findings on sex assault allegations.
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Paying for College Has to Be Easier Than This
In 2004, I published a children’s book, “Rock, Brock, and the Savings Shock,” about the importance of saving at an early age.
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Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate Tim Kaine Can Speak Spanish. Do Latino Voters Care?
Nelson Flores of the Graduate School of Education comments on whether or not Tim Kaine’s Spanish speaking skills are appealing to Latino voters.
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Fighting for Free Speech on America’s Campuses
The free-speech watchdog FIRE is a familiar irritant to college administrators, but until this past year, the rest of the country wasn’t paying much attention. An “epic” year is what Greg Lukianoff, president and chief executive of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, calls it.
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How Britain’s Brexit Could Benefit Universities Elsewhere
Could universities in the United States and elsewhere benefit from post-Brexit perceptions that Britain is no longer a welcoming country? A new survey suggests that prospective international students are already reconsidering whether to study in Britain after citizens there voted in June to leave the European Union. And other countries could benefit from a potential brain drain of top academics and a possible drying up of research funds flowing from Europe to British institutions.
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Setting the Body’s ‘Serial Killers’ Loose on Cancer
Carl June and Bruce Levine of the Perelman School of Medicine are noted for their collaborative work using personalized cellular therapies to treat cancer.
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At University of Texas, New Gun Law Complicates Anniversary of Massacre
The University of Texas at Austin on Monday held a solemn commemoration of a dark history: the 50th anniversary of the school’s clock tower massacre, when a sniper shot more than 40 people, drawing back the curtain on an era of modern-day mas