#upenn — Public Fediverse posts
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Heng Yang, a M.S. student in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at #UPenn came to #Atlanta to visit #GeorgiaTech and his old physics instructor, yours truly, from when we were both at the #UniversityOfArizona. We got coffee, checked out the campus, and visited #Einstein.
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Update. Yesterday #UPenn filed a 163-page brief in federal court condemning the #Trump admin demand for a list of #Jews at the institution as “extraordinary and unconstitutional".
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/us/university-of-pennsylvania-trump-jewish-staff.html"The #EEOC insists that Penn produce this information without the consent — and indeed, over the objections — of the employees impacted while entirely disregarding the frightening and well-documented history of governmental entities that undertook efforts to identify and assemble information regarding persons of Jewish ancestry. The government’s demand implicates Penn’s substantial interest in protecting its employees’ privacy, safety and First Amendment rights."
#Academia #AcademicMastodon #Antisemitism #Universities #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics
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Update. The Trump admin is demanding a list of Jewish faculty, staff, and students at #UPenn.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/13/upenn-trump-jews-listTrump's #EEOC asked for the list last July. Penn refused, and the EEOC sued the university in November. What's new is that several groups just filed a motion in federal court to intervene in the lawsuit on the side of the university -- the American Association of University Professors (#AAUP, national and UPenn chapters), the American Academy of Jewish Research, the UPenn Jewish Law Students Association, the UPenn Association of Senior and Emeritus Faculty.
From #StevenWeitzman, UPenn prof of religious studies and past member of its antisemitism taskforce: “Part of what sets off alarm bells for people like me is a history of people using Jewish lists against Jews. The Nazi campaign against Jews depended on institutions like universities handing over information about their Jewish members to the authorities.”
#Academia #AcademicMastodon #Antisemitism #Trump #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
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started a #wikipedia article on American academic Louise Hortense Snowden (1865-1931), first Dean of Women at #UPenn (1920-1925); she was decorated by the French government for her work in France and Belgium during #WWI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Hortense_Snowden @wikiwomeninred #Philadelphia #Sorbonne #YMCA #medievalist
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"Leges sine moribus vanae" is a Latin phrase that translates to "Laws without morals are useless." It emphasizes the importance of ethics and morality in conjunction with legal systems.
Not today, I guess.