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...Though she agreed with Riether that Pennsylvania??s position as a battleground state adds to the excitement because her vote “has a lot of weight to it,” she says she thinks interest may have peaked during the Democratic primary...
...controversy erupted over two exhibitions of work from Andres Serrano and the late Robert Mapplethorpe. Both had been funded indirectly by grants from the NEA—the former through the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, and the latter through the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania??and both were shocking and blasphemous (phalluses and crosses dunked in urine). Anti-NEA vitriol flooded congressional mailboxes. The director of the Southeastern Center, Ted Potter, told The New York Times, “I’ve never seen anything like this before in my 25 years...
...larger question might be: Is the death penalty even an ineffective deterrent? In fact, experts on criminology tend to reject such notions as a flawed understanding of being tough on crime versus evidence-based reasoning about what works. Lawrence Sherman—Professor of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania??explained in an article for The Daily Pennsylvanian: “There’s no evidence that the death penalty does anything to reduce homicides.” Linked to this flawed belief in ‘deterrence’ is the common perception that putting...
...another weekend, another journey on the road for a resilient Harvard women’s tennis team. Continuing its whistle-stop tour of the Northeast—encompassing competitions in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania??the Crimson traveled to the National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y. for the three-day USTA Invitational. With the collegiate tournament providing a variety of opponents—from highly-seeded national programs to Ivy League and local college teams—it was the ideal preparation for a Harvard team yet to fully recover from lingering ailments. “I think...
...film through and through. “The Express” tells the true story of Ernie Davis (played by Rob Brown), the first black football player to win college football’s most prestigious award, the Heisman Trophy. Davis hailed from Elmira, a small mining town in Pennsylvania??hence his real nickname, “The Elmira Express”—and followed in the footsteps of NFL hall-of-famer Jim Brown at Syracuse. Davis not only won the Heisman in 1961; he also led Syracuse to its only national championship...