5/18
Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Media roundtable: Afghanistan peace deal & the decline of newspapers
Victor Pickard of the Annenberg School for Communication joined a discussion about a peace deal between the U.S. and the Taliban as well as the loss of local newspapers and journalists.
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Impeachment check-in: President Trump’s defense and Bolton’s book
John Gans of the Perry World House joined a conversation about the presidential impeachment trial.
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U-Haul’s nicotine-free hiring rule reflects a trend that troubles workers’ advocates
Harald Schmidt of the Perelman School of Medicine said policies targeting smokers disproportionately harms poor people because nearly half of unemployed people are addicted to nicotine. “You’re basically posing a double whammy on them,” he says. “It’s very hard for them to get work, and it’s even harder for people who are already in a vulnerable situation.”
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The power of conservative talk radio
Brian Rosenwald of the School of Arts and Sciences spoke about talk radio’s evolution from news to “infotainment.” “What makes for good, entertaining radio is not saying, ‘Well, they had to cut a deal over this because the debt ceiling has to get raised and there’s divided government,’ and all that stuff. It’s not fun.” Rosenwald explained. “Nuance is boring, basically. And what isn’t boring is saying, ‘Those Democrats are a bunch of socialists trying to destroy America,’ and playing to people’s emotions.”
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Meet the Womanikin, the breasted vest working to close the CPR gender gap
Marion Leary of the School of Nursing weighed in on why people may hesitate to perform CPR on women. “We’ve been training people relatively the same way since CPR was first quote-unquote ‘discovered,’” she said. “We need to start thinking about how we can use the technology and innovation of today to really train people differently so that they feel comfortable performing CPR when the time arises.”
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CRISPR gene-editing may offer path to cure for HIV, first published report shows
Carl June of the Perelman School of Medicine commented on new efforts by Chinese scientists to treat HIV using CRISPR technology. “This says there will be blue skies ahead,” he said. “We’re going to see many, many applications now since they got to first base here on this one.”
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Understanding Kashmir
Suvir Kaul of the School of Arts and Sciences talks about political conflict between Indian and Pakistan. “I’m watching this [Indian] government doing all it can to change that kind of unitary sense of the nation and that’s what worries me enormously,” said Kaul.
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A century later: The Treaty of Versailles and its rejection of racial equality
Frederick Dickinson of the School of Arts and Sciences spoke about the history of opposition to limiting non-white immigration. The racial equality clause in the Treaty of Versailles, for example, was “one of the first attempts to establish ... the unprecedented principle of free and open migration,” he said.
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The lasting impact of ‘Dora the Explorer’
Americo Mendoza-Mori of the School of Arts and Sciences spoke about his work consulting for the film adaptation of “Dora the Explorer.”
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How the Democratic position on health care has moved to the left
PIK Professor Ezekiel Emanuel discussed the improved political viability of a public option in the U.S. health care system. “I think both Republican and Democratic voters recognize that they want to have security, and a public option does communicate that security to them,” he said.