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4/30
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon, a doctoral candidate in the School of Arts & Sciences, said there are thousands of Black Ukrainians living in the country’s major cities.
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John L. Jackson, dean of the Annenberg School for Communication, said the resurgence of attempted book bans has little to do with the content. “It's all about the readers. It's all about the folks who are organizing our contemporary political discourse,” he said.
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Liza Brover, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences, said the College Fed Challenge “is a window for the Fed to see how young people look at the economy. To that extent, people should care what we have to say about inflation and employment.”
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Erick Guerra of the Stuart Weitzman School of Design says a lot of the traffic in commercial areas comes from people looking for parking.
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The Pavilion at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania opens its new emergency department this weekend. Nearly 400 HUP patients will be transferred into the 17-story building.
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Louis Rulli of the Law School said Philadelphia has historically been a “hotspot” for civil forfeiture. "The people most affected by civil forfeiture were poor, they were communities of color, and they were the most vulnerable in our city, who could least afford to lose their property," he said.
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center said the spread of online misinformation has less to do with a particular platform’s features than distrust in key institutions like the CDC. “The credibility around some of these institutions has been called into questions in ways that's not helpful when we need to trust those institutions to give us information," she said.
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center spoke about the politicization of public health information on COVID-19 in the U.S. "When you begin to reduce trust in experts and agencies telling you that vaccines are safe, you're creating all kinds of susceptibilities that can be exploited for partisan gain," she said.
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Eric Feldman of the Law School spoke about the legality of businesses requiring proof of vaccination. “In general, private businesses can decide who they're willing to admit into their businesses and serve so long as they don't violate either the federal Civil Rights act or a state law,” he said.
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David Hoffman of the Law School co-authored a study that found that residential leases in Philadelphia increasingly contain unenforceable clauses that benefit landlords and disproportionately impact Black tenants. "We don’t have federal lease regulations like some countries do, and the result is that you’re at the mercy of your landlords," Hoffman said.