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Colleges Spending Millions to Deal With Sexual Misconduct Complaints
In a brightly lit classroom here at Harvard, Mia Karvonides was trying to explain to a group of bemused student leaders the difference between a romantic encounter and “unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature,” as the university’s relatively new code of sexual misconduct defines it. She tried to leaven the legalistic atmosphere at the town-hall-style meeting with realistic-sounding examples, defying gender stereotypes. Jose and Lisa, chemistry students, are working late at night in the lab, she began, when Lisa comes up from behind and kisses Jose on the neck.
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Supreme Court Struggles to Deal With 4-4 Split
Stephanos Bibas of the Law School says, “We may not have another justice on the court for another year. If they just ditch this case, for a year you persist in having different laws in different parts of the country.”
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Two Indian American Penn Undergrads Named 2016 President’s Engagement Prize Winners
Undergraduates Vaishak Kumar and Kriya Patel are highlighted as two winners of the President’s Engagement Prize.
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Hacker Sends Anti-Semitic Fliers to Network Printers at Princeton, Many Other Colleges
A notorious white supremacist computer hacker has claimed responsibility for sending anti-Semitic fliers to networked printers at several universities across the country, a coordinated cyberattack that included the University of Maryland and Princeton among thousands of targets.
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How Do I Know If I Have Lyme Disease? The One Telltale Sign You Should Look for
Anne Norris of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about the warning signs of Lyme disease.
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Grade Inflation, Higher and Higher
The first major update in seven years of a database on grade inflation has found that grades continue to rise and that A is the most common grade earned at all kinds of colleges. Since the last significant release of the survey, faculty members at Princeton University and Wellesley College, among other institutions, have debated ways to limit grade inflation, despite criticism from some students who welcome the high averages. But the new study says these efforts have not been typical.
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What Tenured and Tenure-track Professors at 4-year Colleges Made in 2015-16
Professors in the fields of business, law, and engineering draw the highest salaries among faculty members who have tenure or are on the tenure track, according to the results of an annual survey released on Monday by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources. Among full professors, faculty members in legal studies were the best-compensated in the 2015-16 academic year, earning an average of just above $145,000 across both private and public institutions.
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Church Preservation Battles Heat Up In Pennsylvania
Aaron Wunsch of the School of Design says, “These church buildings often have a particular presence and many are great works of architecture. I feel the church has an obligation in some way to be a good institutional citizen.”
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Emory’s Trump Chalkings in Context
The Emory University community awoke on March 21 to “Trump 2016” and related messages chalked on walkways, stairways, building walls and other places across our campus. Anti-Trump protests followed. Free and open expression is strongly encouraged at Emory, so the chalked endorsements normally would not cause anyone to blink an eye. But, in this case, a particular set of circumstances created a flash point.
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Living Well After Cancer
Kathryn Schmitz of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on the effects of cancer treatment on patients.