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Audio: Why It’s Hard to Raid a University Endowment
There is a small but growing move afoot to require universities with multi-billion dollar endowments to stop charging tuition. In fact, some proponents of the idea are trying to get a seat on the board that oversees Harvard, and a New York congressman is sponsoring legislation to require rich universities to spend more of their endowments on tuition assistance. Sounds like they're making a simple argument, right? But University endowments aren’t big, liquid pools of money, like what parents with a kid in college wish for.
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What Cosby Scandal Teaches Us
Revocation of an honorary degree has risen to the forefront again, occasioned by the recent arrest of Bill Cosby for sexual assault in Pennsylvania in a case for which the statute of limitations has not yet expired. In his lifetime, Cosby has received somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 honorary degrees, and three dozen higher education institutions have not, as of now, rescinded them. It is high time these colleges and universities did so. If ever an easy case for degree revocation existed, this is it.
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Is Obesity More Deadly Than Science Suggests?
Samuel Preston of the School of Arts & Sciences is cited for co-authoring a study about obesity and morality.
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Mental Health of College Athletes
Concussions may currently be the most-talked-about safety issue in college sports, but it’s the mental health of athletes that really keeps the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s chief medical officer awake at night, he said here Wednesday. Speaking to a small crowd at the NCAA’s annual meeting, Brian Hainline, the association’s medical chief, said mental health remains a top concern for the association and its members.
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Video: The Hard Line - Mary Brigid McManamon & Kermit Roosevelt
Kermit Roosevelt of the Law School debates about presidential candidate Ted Cruz’s questionable eligibility.
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How Driverless Cars Are Putting the Brakes on Road Rage
Erick Guerra of the School of Design comments on the impact self-driving cars can have on urban planning and civil engineering.
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Biden to Tour Labs, Meet Cancer Researchers at Penn
Gary Scheib of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania was cited and the Abramson Cancer Center, Smilow Center for Translational Research and Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine mentioned as sites of Vice President Biden’s visit to campus.
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The Mistake You’re Making With Your Fitbit
Mitesh Patel of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on how there is not enough evidence to know if wearable activity trackers transform health behaviors.
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Infrequently Asked Questions: Do Ear Gauge Holes Close?
Thomas Leung of the Perelman School of Medicine is interviewed about the concept of ear gauging.
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Many Black Students Don’t Seek Help for Mental-health Concerns, Survey Finds
African-American students feel less emotionally prepared for college than white students do, and they’re also more likely to keep their worries to themselves, according to the results of a national poll released on Wednesday. The survey marks one of the first efforts born of a partnership between the Jed Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the emotional well-being of college students, and the Steve Fund, a group focused on the mental health of minority students that was formed in 2014 to honor Stephen C.