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Below is an excerpt from an article published in The Nation by a former Daily Pennsylvanian staff columnist.
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Below is an excerpt from an article published in The Nation by a former Daily Pennsylvanian staff columnist.
The first section of this article appeared in the May 31 issue of The Summer Pennsylvanian.
“We are unstoppable! Another world is possible!”
In three weeks, I’ll stride across a stage in my Ivy League regalia and accept my diploma. As I march off with a triumphant smile, I’ll be greeted by a chorus of congratulations from family and friends.
Last Wednesday, I sat among a sea of candles at Take Back The Night and watched speaker after speaker share their stories of sexual violence. The event was one of the most powerful that I’ve attended at Penn and the brave voices of the participants are still echoing inside my head.
“I know I shouldn’t go, but I just have to. I have like a really bad fear of missing out.”
On Thursday at 1 p.m., I will put down my pencil, stand up and walk out of class. I’ll meet fellow students at the Button and we’ll walk to Governor Corbett’s office and to the Philadelphia School District building.
Vagina Monologues. Vagina poetry. Vagina lectures. From University of Michigan professor Susan Douglas’ lecture about the media’s role in perpetuating sexism to the poet Staceyann Chin’s personal accounts of sexism, a key component of Women’s Week was to bring together the structural and the individual manifestations of female oppression.
Just a few months ago, I was complicit in On-Campus Recruiting. As suits traipse into interview rooms this week, I think it’s time to examine this tradition of competition through its history and recent critiques.
Rush is here. Club sign-ups have befallen campus. Let’s make some friends.
I am a Penn student studying abroad in Prague and taking an “Economics of Transition” course, which is essentially a comparative economics course. In general, economics is taught with a full dose of political and historical economic theory in countries other than the United States. Without the obligation to salute Uncle Sam’s capitalist triumphalism, schools teach Hegel and Marx alongside Smith and Keynes.