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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Thousands Protest Plan to Oust University Chief in Mississippi
Raising handwritten signs and clutching scripts for protest chants, more than 2,500 people on Wednesday demonstrated at the University of Mississippi to resist last week’s unexpected decision to oust the school’s chancellor, Daniel W. Jones. In what officials here described as one of the largest protests in the university’s history, students, employees and other supporters of Dr.
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Need Financial Advice? Ask the Future You
Joseph Kable of the School of Arts & Sciences is quoted about how discounting can affect decisions including personal finances.
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Experts Back Angelina Jolie Pitt in Choices for Cancer Prevention
Susan Domchek of the Perelman School of Medicine is quoted about cancer prevention options and Penn’s Basser Research Center is mentioned.
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Video: Police Find No Evidence of Rape at University of Virginia Fraternity
The police here said Monday that they had found “no substantive basis” to support a Rolling Stone magazine article depicting a horrific gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity house and that a four-month review had identified serious discrepancies in the account by a woman identified as Jackie, who refused to cooperate with their investigation. After a review of records and roughly 70 interviews, Police Chief Timothy J.
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Anger and Activism Greet Plan to Shut Sweet Briar College
Here at bucolic Sweet Briar College, equestrians awaken at dawn and trek to the stables to ride on 18 miles of trails through wooded countryside, fields and dells. Women study on the boathouse dock at sunset, as geese squawk over a lake. Pearls are still in fashion, and men must have escorts. Students call it “the pink bubble.” Now, all of a sudden, the bubble has burst.
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Rolling Stone to Publish Review of Disputed Rape Article
Rolling Stone magazine plans to publish an external review of a widely disputed article about a gang rape at the University of Virginia “in the next couple of weeks,” its managing editor, Will Dana, said on Sunday. The 9,000-word article, which was published in November, was based on the account of a female student who described being sexually assaulted by seven men in a dark room during a fraternity house party.
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Video: Stigma Around Physician-assisted Dying Lingers
Ezekiel Emanuel of the Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School comments on physician-assisted dying.
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Luring Working Executives to M.B.A. Programs
Peggy Bishop Lane of the Wharton School talks about the students and advertising used to attract students to executive M.B.A. programs.
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Named Next President of N.Y.U., Oxford’s Leader Inherits Challenges From John Sexton
New York University, which has become known for its global aspirations as much as its enviable home in Greenwich Village, named the head of one of the world’s most prestigious universities as its 16th president on Wednesday. When the new president, Andrew Hamilton, leaves his post at Oxford University to join N.Y.U. in January, he will be walking into a set of complex challenges. He will be leading a university with aggressive expansion plans, both internationally and in New York, where those plans are tied up in a court battle.
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N.Y.U. Professor Is Barred by United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates, where New York University opened a new campus last year, has barred an N.Y.U. professor from traveling to the monarchy after his criticism of the exploitation of migrant construction workers there.