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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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The No. 1 Sign You Can Afford to Buy a Home
Todd Sinai of the Wharton School comments on real estate and agrees that a home is a utility rather than an investment.
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Harvard Cancels Men’s Soccer Season After Finding More ‘Scouting Reports’ on Women
Harvard University canceled its men’s soccer season after learning that sexually explicit ‘scouting reports’ about the women’s soccer recruits continued through 2016. The ‘reports’ — explicit descriptions of female student-athletes gauging their attractiveness and speculating on sexual preferences — were made public by the student newspaper at a time when the culture around sexual assault and consent are issues of intense interest at Harvard and many other campuses nationally.
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Her Students Asked About Police Shootings. So She Created a Guide for Them.
In the fall of 2014, Patricia A. Matthew’s students started asking her why Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, had been shot by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo. Ms. Matthew, an associate professor of English at Montclair State University, in New Jersey, didn’t have the answers. So she did some research: How had racial tensions reached a boiling point in Ferguson?
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Diversity Ensures Today’s Campuses Not Your Grandparents’ Universities
Doctoral candidate Kenyon Bonner of the Graduate School of Education writes about the importance of diversity on college campuses.
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UNC President On the ‘Bathroom Law’ and Higher Ed Reform
The new leader of the University of North Carolina system has much more on her mind than who should be allowed to use which bathrooms on campus. “There’s a lot more at issue in higher education than this particular issue,” UNC President Margaret Spellings said last week during a visit to Washington. “I mean, come on.” Among those other topics, she said, are affordability, access and student success in a 17-campus system with nearly 225,000 students.
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Most Voters Haven’t Changed Their Minds All Year
Dan Hopkins of the School of Arts & Sciences writes about Americans who have not changed their minds about which candidate they will cast their vote for in the upcoming presidential election.
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You’re Probably Tired of the Presidential Race, but Long Campaigns Are a Good Thing
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center comments on the benefits of long presidential campaigns.
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Bob Dylan, a Laureate Sure, but by What Measure a Poet
Anthony DeCurtis of the School of Arts & Sciences comments on teaching with text penned by Bob Dylan.
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Ride-sharing Services and Boundary-blurring Buildings: A Vision of the Future Campus
Once upon a time, campus buildings had clearly delineated missions that rarely overlapped. As Lauren Scranton, a campus-planning expert, puts it: "This is where you sleep. This is where you go to class." That appears to be changing, and technology is often the catalyst. Look no further than what’s happening to college libraries: These days they’re designed to be social hubs as much as book repositories.
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Is It Worth Paying $369 for the New Apple Watch?
Mitesh Patel of the Perelman School of Medicine comments on fitness trackers and how accurately they collect data.