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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Berkeley Student Killed in Nice Was Second From That University to Die in a Terrorist Attack This Month
Hundreds of people are expected to attend a campus vigil Monday for Nicolas Leslie, a 20-year-old student at the University of California at Berkeley, who was killed in the terrorist attack on Nice, France, last week. Leslie was one of 84 people who died when a man drove a truck into a crowd of people in the French Riviera who had been watching fireworks. The man then opened fire on the crowd. Another 200 people were injured, including three Berkeley students.
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Saudi Enrollment Declines
The number of Saudi Arabian students enrolled at American universities has skyrocketed since the launch of a massive Saudi government scholarship program in 2005, increasing more than 17-fold. But after more than a decade of growth, many universities with sizable Saudi populations are anticipating significant declines in new Saudi enrollments as the government has retooled the scholarship program. Steep drops in enrollments at the English language level, the initial landing point for most Saudi students coming to U.S. universities, signal further declines ahead.
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Trump Backers On Campus Wage Lonely Battle
Vassar College economics student Ian Vasily cuts an unusual figure walking through campus in a hat bearing Donald Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again.” Many students at the upstate New York school ask: “ ‘Are you actually supporting him?’ ” Mr. Vasily said, “ ‘Or is this ironic?’ ”At liberal-arts colleges in the Northeast and on many campuses nationwide, where left-wing activism often flourishes, there is little love lost between the presumptive Republican presidential nominee and student bodies.
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What Classics Professors Can Teach the Rest of Us
Joseph Farrell of the School of Arts & Sciences comments on classics professors regarding themselves as language teachers.
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Labor Board Ruling Could Allow Grad Students to Unionize
When Paul Katz, a fourth-year graduate student at Columbia University, is researching primary texts in the library, he considers himself a student. But when he is grading undergraduate papers or lecturing to students, he sees himself as an employee who should have the right to join a union. The National Labor Relations Board is expected to decide on his status this summer in a ruling that could pave the way for graduate students at private schools across the country to unionize.
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Executive Compensation at Private and Public Colleges
The Chronicle's executive-compensation package includes data on more than 1,200 chief executives at nearly 600 private colleges from 2008-13 and 250 public universities and systems from 2010-15. Updated in July, 2016, with 2014-15 public college data.
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War of Words
Mark Liberman of the School of Arts & Sciences is cited for studying pitch and tone through comparisons of Republican presidential candidates’ speeches.
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America Really Is More Divided Than Ever
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center comments on mainstream media and says, “There’s a dominant polarization narrative that is driving coverage.”
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Can U. of Tennessee Students Keep a Staple of LGBT Life Afloat?
Walk toward the main library at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and you can’t miss the Pride Center. A bright rainbow flag stands on the lawn in front of the building where the center makes its home. Nine more colorful flags — representing different sexualities and gender identities — decorate the facade.
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There’s No One-sized-fits-all Way to Treat Autism
Susan Levy of the Perelman School of Medicine is cited for a co-authoring a study that reviews complementary and alternative treatments for autism.