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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Tragedy at UCLA
The 2015-16 academic year has seen numerous shootings, some deadly, of students, and a national debate over guns on campus. On Wednesday, with the academic year winding down, an engineering professor was shot and killed in the engineering building at the University of California at Los Angeles. Reports of a morning shooting at UCLA left many on campus terrified, and students running for cover. In the end, a professor was dead in what is being described by local news sources as a murder-suicide.
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Dogs Were a Species So Nice, We Domesticated Them Twice
Urs Giger of the School of Veterinary Medicine comments on dog origin and domestication.
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Winning Not The Only Thing? A College Football Ethics Shift. (+Video)
In recent weeks, the first outlines of a culture shift in college football have begun to appear. Most obviously, Baylor University fired Head Coach Art Briles last week after an independent investigation found the university had mishandled accusations of sexual assault against his players. For a university to fire a coach like Mr. Briles, who had almost single-handedly made Baylor a college football superpower – was “ a milestone,” wrote ESPN columnist Ivan Maisel. “Someone in the gridiron-industrial complex stood up and said some standards are more important than winning.”
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African-American Genes Show How Slavery and the Great Migration Shaped the US
Dorothy Roberts of the Law School and the School of Arts & Sciences comments on a study about the genetic makeup of African-Americans in comparison to other groups and says, “We can’t think…that knowing more about each group’s genetic makeup is going to necessarily lead to reducing the differences in health between these groups.”
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Are HBCUs Endangered Species?
Marybeth Gasman of the Graduate School of Education comments on the performance funding models and historically black colleges and universities.
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Possible Path to Grad Union
Graduate student unions on a number of private campuses have for years sought recognition from their universities and federal officials, to little avail. But organizing efforts at Cornell University are moving forward, in the form of an agreement on how to proceed until and if a legal barrier to collective bargaining is reversed.
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Audio: Talking Politics With Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center talks about politics and the current presidential campaign.
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Northeastern Offers Debt-saddled Alums a Chance at Relief - If They Donate
Northeastern University alumni facing the daunting challenge of paying off student loans were offered a chance at debt relief from the school on Wednesday—for the small price of some more money. “Summer’s on us! Make a gift of any size to Northeastern by June 30, and you will be eligible to win $1,000 worth of student loan repayments,” the school wrote in an email to alumni. Asking alumni who have their own debt to pay to enter a debt lottery struck some as unseemly.
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N.J. College Broke Law With $250,000 Table, State Says
New Jersey's third-largest public university broke public bidding laws when it purchased a custom conference table shipped from China that ultimately cost nearly a quarter-million dollars, the state comptroller said in a report Wednesday. Officials at Kean University in Union County authorized a Chinese manufacturer to build and ship the 22-person, state-of-the-art table before obtaining approval from the school's board of trustees, according to the comptroller's 19-month investigation. Comptroller Philip James Degnan did not refer the matter to the Attorney General's Office.
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Base Quit-smoking Day on Menstrual Cycle?
Reagan Wetherill and Teresa Franklin of the Perelman School of Medicine are featured for a study that revealed specific weeks of a woman’s menstrual cycle may be better than others for quitting smoking.