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Ash Wednesday Faux Pas: ‘Professor, you’ve got dirt on your forehead.’0
- Culture
- March 1, 2017
Back in college, I worked the snack bar for a few years. As it was a very small, liberal arts college, there was only one. You met a lot of people, saw your friends, and served your professors. Aside from making milk shakes, I enjoyed the work. I’ll never forget one Wednesday when my literature
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Joe Biden’s New Job at Penn is a Mystery 0
- Education
- March 1, 2017
Earlier this month, the Daily Pennsylvanian reported that former Vice President Joe Biden had officially been named a professor at Penn under the title of “Benjamin Franklin Presidential Practice Professor.” There was talk that Biden would lead “the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement” from Washington, D.C. The Penn Biden Center doesn’t exist
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School Reform is Missing a Key Ingredient 0
- Education
- March 1, 2017
The last several decades have seen Americans wake up to the fact that their schools are failing. Nowhere is this more apparent than in student performance on national and international tests. Such results have caused American educators and policy makers to flounder around trying to find a way to set American students back on track;
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Selling Higher Education Is Much Sleazier Than Selling Used Cars 0
- Culture
- February 28, 2017
In a previous life, I worked in sales. But not just your everyday, run-of-the-mill brand of sales: I worked in a sleazy industry that championed predatory lending practices and distorted the pricing of its lackluster product, which often sent my clients spiraling down a rabbit hole of debt. And to make matters worse, this entire
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Not Everything Is Political 0
- Politics
- February 28, 2017
Many readers have probably heard, and a few may even have used, the slogan: “the personal is the political.” Though its original source is unclear, it first cropped up in the late 1960s and early 1970s (see this paper) within “second-wave” feminism. Back then, it had a legitimate point: women’s personal experiences and choices are
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College Sex Assault Investigations Are Scary 0
- Culture
- February 28, 2017
Grant Neal was in a bind. The sophomore athlete was being investigated by officials at Colorado State University-Pueblo for possible violations under Title IX—the federal statute that universities use to investigate students suspected of sexual misconduct. The allegations stemmed from a relationship Neal had with an athletic trainer. The trainer, identified as Jane Doe in
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