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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Commentary: The Momentous Decision to Use Atomic Bombs
Gino Segrè and Bettina Hoerlin of the School of Arts & Sciences write about the decision to drop the first atomic bomb.
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36 Hours in Philadelphia
The Institute of Contemporary Art is included as a destination spot for tourists visiting Philadelphia.
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Surge in Americans Applying to Have Student Debt Canceled
The Obama administration is wading through nearly 20,000 applications from Americans seeking to have student loans canceled on the grounds they were deceived by colleges, the fallout from a student-debt boom that already has led the government to forgive tens of millions of dollars of borrowings. As of early May, 19,657 borrowers alleging illegal practices by their schools had applied to the Education Department to be relieved of repaying their federal student loans.
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When Protests Obstruct Free Speech
Sitting on the stage at DePaul University Tuesday, Milo Yiannopoulos spoke without incident for around 15 minutes, offering his trademark inflammatory criticisms of feminism, the transgender rights movement and campus politics. And then the conversation turned to microaggressions. “They’re called microaggressions because you can’t even see them,” Yiannopoulos, a pundit at the conservative website Breitbart.com, told the crowd. “And the reason you can’t see them is because they’re not there.
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Yale Professor and Wife, Targets of Protests, Resign as College Heads
A Yale professor and his wife who became targets of protests for an email about potentially offensive Halloween costumes are resigning their positions as heads of a residential community at the university. The professor, Nicholas Christakis, a sociologist and physician, announced on his Twitter feed Wednesday that he was stepping down as head of Silliman College, a residence where he and his wife served as social and intellectual mentors to students. Dr. Christakis, who directs Yale’s Human Nature Lab, said they were not severing all their ties to the university.
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Opinion: Financial Illiteracy May Have Cost Investors $200 Billion Over 20 Years
Olivia Mitchell of the Wharton School is mentioned for researching financial literacy.
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5 Damning Findings From the Baylor Investigation
Baylor University on Thursday released a summary of a long-awaited investigative report into its handling of sexual-assault allegations — and, with it, word of a housecleaning of sorts. Its president, Kenneth W. Starr, was reassigned. Its head football coach, Art Briles, was fired. And its athletic director, Ian McCaw, was put on probation. A glance at the investigation’s findings reveals why Baylor’s governing board took such broad action. In short, virtually everything that could be wrong with a university’s treatment of sexual assault was wrong at Baylor.
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With Ken Starr’s Future in Doubt, Baylor Alumni Come to His Defense
Reports that Baylor University’s president, Kenneth W. Starr, is being forced to resign for failing to respond adequately to a string of sexual assaults on his campus prompted more than a thousand people on Wednesday to rally to his defense online. "We as Baylor constituents love and support our president, Judge Ken Starr," reads the petition, which had attracted more than 1,500 signatures by Wednesday evening. "Over the past six years, Judge Starr has ushered in a new era of success. We believe he will continue to do so going forward in his current role."
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‘What About Us?’ A Student Explains Why A Commencement Speaker Who Spoke Spanish and Mentioned Trump Was Controversial
Some people shouted at a commencement speaker this weekend after she gave a brief part of her remarks in Spanish and talked about presidential candidate Donald Trump — and many are still upset about it. People who were there said they heard people yell, “Get off the stage!” insults, a slogan for the Trump campaign, and commands to speak English.
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Some Harvard Graduates Are Wearing Red Tape on Their Caps to Protest The University’s Sexual Assault Policies
Before Brianna Suslovic heads to her commencement ceremony Thursday morning, the Harvard senior will stick a long piece of red tape on her black graduation cap. “By wearing red tape, we want to show members of the Harvard community that we’re standing in solidarity with survivors of sexual violence, including ones who can’t be there because of the violence they experienced,” she said.