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4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Emily Owens of the School of Arts & Sciences comments on school resource officer programs.
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Northwestern University professor Laura Kipnis acknowledged she was being a little irreverent when she wrote an article about student-professor relationships. “Forgive my slightly mocking tone,” she wrote in the article, “Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe." “When I was in college, hooking up with professors was more or less part of the curriculum.” She was surprised, and a little amused, when she heard that students were lugging mattresses up to the college president’s office in protest of the article.
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In 1979, the British rock band Pink Floyd released their trademark hit recording, “Another Brick in the Wall,” and left generations singing its famous line: “We don’t need no education!” While there are innumerable arguments that could be made against that claim, a new study just found another persuasive one: Education may add years to the human lifespan. Researchers at the University of Colorado, Denver, New York University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that people with higher levels of education live longer.
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Washington State lawmakers reached a bipartisan agreement this week to pull skyrocketing tuition rates back to earth.
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When she met her dad, Jeff, for breakfast early on a Tuesday morning, Elly couldn’t bring herself to tell him about the nightmarish experience she had been through just hours before in her dorm room. He figured she looked disheveled because she was tired and about to go to tennis practice. He snapped a photo of her before heading home from his visit last October at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. That Friday, he got a call from Elly’s mother.
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Recent high school graduate Arianna Alexander is featured for being awarded millions in scholarship money and choosing Penn as her first choice to attend college.
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One of the nation’s most prestigious women’s colleges is about to expand its definition of women. Smith College is the largest of “the Seven Sisters,” a consortium of prestigious, all-female, liberal arts colleges on the East Coast of the United States. Since its inception, Smith has touted itself as an institution that provides leadership opportunities for women.
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Stewart Friedman of the Wharton School is cited for studying graduating students’ plans to have children.
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Can a private university force its fraternities to go coed? That’s one of the questions set to play out in a lawsuit brought by a chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon against Wesleyan University.