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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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On December 9, the US Supreme Court will once again take up the case of Abigail Fisher, a former applicant rejected for admission to the University of Texas at Austin, whose allegations of unfair racial bias against whi
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Early this morning officials issued an alert for a possible armed man on the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill campus, but police officials gave the all-clear after no threat was found. Reports of active shooters and campus lockdowns are beginning to become routine at US colleges and universities in recent months.
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When Payton Head ran as a gay, black man for student president at the University of Missouri — a school now known for one student's hunger strike and other protests against the administration's handling of racial bias and hostility on campus — he promised to "ignite Mizzou." "We've definitely done that," Head, a 21-year-old senior from Chicago who is studying political science and international studies, told The Associated Press.
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The “grit” study by Angela Duckworth of the School of Arts and Sciences is discussed and challenged.
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Douglas Jerolmack of the School of Arts & Sciences says, “Knowing whether pebbles in a river moved 1 kilometer or 100 kilometers [0.6 miles or 62 miles] could tell us how stable water was on the surface of ancient Mars.”
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Syracuse University is considering kissing the kiss cam goodbye, after some say the Jumbotron feature encourages sexual assault. “The instances I witnessed at the game encourage and condone sexual assault and a sense of male entitlement, at best. And they are an actual instance of assault, at worst,” Stephen Port of Manlius, N.Y., wrote in a letter to the editor of the Syracuse newspaper The Post-Standard and Syracuse.com. Mr. Port felt the need to write the letter after attending the Syracuse University-Wake Forest football game last week.
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After heavy lobbying from some of the nation’s most elite institutions of higher education, the President has just abandoned his effort to rank the nation’s 7,000 colleges and universities. So, with college application season almost upon us, where should aspiring college students and their parents look for advice? In my view, not U.S. News and World Report’s annual college guide (out last week).
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Doctoral candidate Edward Smith and Shaun Harper of the Graduate School of Education are highlighted for a report that finds African-American students in Southern states are suspended and expelled at higher rates than anywhere else in the U.S..
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Dropping a child off a college for the first time is a bittersweet moment for parents – and students. For families arriving at Old Dominion University in Virginia this past weekend, that moment was tinged with an additional layer of discomfort thanks to a trio of lewd banners draped from the balcony of a fraternity house welcoming freshman women to campus. The university chapter of Sigma Nu has since been suspended by the fraternity’s national organization, pending an investigation, for the “derogatory and demeaning language used on the banners.”