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Mother, Wife, Million-Dollar Patient
The Perelman School of Medicine’s Steven Joffe contextualized for-profit support for the work of patient-assistance charities. Joffe proposed that the pharmaceutical companies providing support to patients may be primarily motivated by the opportunity to promote the use of their drugs.
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Messy Women May Actually Liberate Us All
Kathleen M. Brown of the School of Arts and Sciences discussed the evolution of sexist respectability politics in the U.S. Brown traced the history of socially-appropriate behavior for women from the early suffrage movement to the present day, where men in power can no longer “count on a woman’s shame and stigma to cover their tracks.”
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Donald Trump’s Next Move on North Korea, Iran, Ronny Jackson? ‘We'll See’
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center analyzed the president’s unique rhetorical style. Jamieson suggested that his commonly-used phrases “we’ll see” and “wait and see” serve to minimize his responsibility for unfavorable outcomes.
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Family Feud: Beyoncé, Jay-Z, and Solange
Penn students Ashley Barrett, Arike Jacobs, and Erica Suarez joined Salamishah Tillet of the School of Arts and Sciences on “Good Day Philadelphia” to discuss Tillet’s seminar “Beyoncé, Jay-Z, and Solange.” (Video)
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Trump Voters Driven by Fear of Losing Status, Not Economic Anxiety, Study Finds
Diana Mutz of the School of Arts and Sciences and Annenberg School for Communication discussed her study, which has joined a chorus of research analyzing the 2016 Republican presidential campaign’s appeal to white, Christian, and/or male voters. Studies have found that many were motivated by what they perceived as their loss of privilege and status.
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U.S. Student Enrolment Growth to ‘Decline Over Next Decade’
College enrollment is set to decline, but will see a simultaneous increase in racial diversity, according to Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education. Gasman suggested that most universities are ill-prepared for the shift and will need to diversify faculty to better accommodate future students.
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People Voted for Trump Because They Were Anxious, Not Poor
Political scientist Diana Mutz of the Annenberg School for Communication and the School of Arts and Sciences has released a new study on white support for Trump. The article, which analyzed survey data from 2012 to 2016, found that election results had less to do with economic hardship and far more to do with changes in the social status of a “historically dominant group.”
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Trigger Warning: John Waters to Get ‘Filthy’ on Penn Campus
Iconoclast John Waters will be commemorating the creation of the Sachs Program for Arts Innovation at the Annenberg Center’s Zellerbach Theater tonight with a one-man show.
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Grave Gardening
Volunteers regularly gather at The Woodlands Cemetery in West Philadelphia to practice Victorian-era horticulture. Senior Maya Arthur derives great satisfaction from the time she dedicates to a grave garden. (Video)
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Penn Choral Director William Parberry Retires After 45 Years
After more than four decades in Penn’s Music Department, University Choir director William Parberry has retired. Parberry marked the occasion on Sunday with a final concert, featuring Handel’s “Messiah.”