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4/26
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Aaron Chalfin of the School of Arts & Sciences said the heavy reliance on police in the U.S. is the result of a failure to address the root causes of crime and violence. “The police are the residual claimants on all the stuff that no one else is willing or able to deal with,” he said. “We put them in that position.”
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Aaron Chalfin of the School of Arts & Sciences spoke about the need for a nuanced evaluation of police work. “The idea that we can reduce the violence we’ve been seeing without any use of the police is not evidence-based; it’s an aspiration, and it’s a high-risk idea,” he said. “A balanced portfolio feels like the lowest-risk strategy to me.”
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The School of Arts & Sciences’Courtney Boen shares how the pandemic has affected sleep patterns.
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When it comes to governments providing residents with basic income, Ioana Marinescu of the School of Social Policy & Practice said, “Our fear that people will quit their jobs en masse if provided with cash for free is false and misguided.”
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Vincent Reina of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design said the U.S. lacks a standardized system for contacting landlords, which complicates rent-relief programs. “There have been calls over time for some national effort around trying to create better national and local owner registry systems, and if there was ever a time this was clearly needed, it is now,” he said.
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Jerry Jacobs of the School of Arts & Sciences spoke about the effects of remote work on women’s work-life balance. “If women feel disproportionately responsible for the household activities and for parenting, working remotely makes life a whole lot more flexible,” he said.
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Vincent Reina of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design spoke about the challenges some cities have faced in distributing rent-relief funds. “It seems clear that the places that have really committed themselves to analyzing how things are going as they are going and making course corrections along the way have been most able to get dollars out the door,” he said.
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Howard Stevenson of the Graduate School of Education spoke about the trauma Black Americans experience when watching footage and reading news coverage of George Floyd’s death amid the Derek Chauvin trial. “Even if this justice happens, we won’t fully get over all of the other injustices,” said Stevenson.
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Jacques deLisle of the Law School and School of Arts & Sciences said there are two theories as to why China has passed new laws reshaping Hong Kong’s electoral rules: because China continues to see Hong Kong and its democracy movement as a threat and because China no longer cares about the optics of interfering. “Xi Jinping and people around him have this attitude of, ‘We’re in control here. And we’re going to assert our authority. We’re doing it in the mainland, and we’re certainly not going to be a lot more lax about doing it in Hong Kong,’” said deLisle.
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Dorothy Kronick of the School of Arts & Sciences spoke about a recent statement from the EU that the bloc no longer views opposition leader Juan Guaidó as Venezuela’s rightful president, which Kronick believes will give the Biden administration more space to support other democratic groups working to depose Nicolás Maduro. “This statement from the EU is in no way backtracking from the commitment to restore democracy to Venezuela,” she said. “This is about looking for the most successful and effective strategy.”