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(04/21/15 2:53am)
In a piece in The New Republic, Bryce Covert anticipates that interim CEO of Reddit Ellen Pao’s judicially unsuccessful gender discrimination lawsuit — waged against her former employer Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers — may still constitute an opportunity to take a step forward in mitigating gender discrimination in the United States. In her piece, Covert calls for our attention to the intricacies of the problem of hidden discrimination in the workplace as contrasted to the overt discrimination we often believe constitutes the main problem, a situation exemplifying a broader problem that exists even among progress-seekers today.
(04/21/15 6:03am)
Betraying its graceful appearance, rowing is a sport of force, finesse and teamwork.
(04/16/15 6:45am)
It’s all hands on deck for Penn rowing this weekend.
(04/09/15 7:03am)
Being a part of Penn rowing means carrying on a long and rich history. And the current crews are about to contribute another chapter.
(04/07/15 2:02am)
Two weeks ago, I made the argument that religion, much like any other force in the world, should not be exempt from our critical judgment in terms of the effects it has on society — we cannot, I argued, simply divorce religion from the real world and think of it in isolation or only in an individualized sense. As an example of this, I discussed activist and author Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s criticism of Islam and argued that these kinds of arguments, even for all the sanctity we attach to religion, deserve space and attention in the public discourse if they bear merit.
(04/06/15 4:51pm)
After last weekend’s impressive showing at the San Diego Crew Classic, Penn heavyweight rowing had no time to kick back and relax. On Saturday, the Quakers were faced with rival Northeastern for the Burk Cup on the Schuylkill.
(03/31/15 4:14am)
Saturday proved to feature the first choppy waters of the season for Penn women’s rowing.
(03/26/15 5:40am)
The spring has returned, and with it, so has Penn rowing.
(03/24/15 2:43am)
In her Wall Street Journal article published last week, “Why Islam Needs a Reformation,” Ayaan Hirsi Ali suggests key areas of reform for Islam to overcome what she sees as its oppressive and extremist elements. To Hirsi Ali, a seasoned critic of religion and especially Islam, being berated for her views after making them known to the world is much more the norm than the exception, and most often, one can be sure that it is not only the extremists who are the culprits.
(03/03/15 3:22am)
As students at Penn, Benjamin Franklin’s espousal of both practical and theoretical education and their intersection in the foundation of the University has hardly escaped us. While this approach was not there right away from Penn’s foundation, it has since become a defining characteristic of the University — one repeatedly emphasized by President Amy Gutmann, numerous deans and others speaking for the University. To some, this excitement about interdisciplinarity between academic areas may appear but a marketing trick for the University to attract students who are indecisive about their majors, but to others, the idea is imbued with a far greater importance, one which it indeed deserves.
(02/26/15 6:40am)
Elation filled the Palestra on Sunday as Penn dethroned Brown in the world of Ivy League gymnastics by picking up the annual Ivy Classic title.
(02/17/15 3:08am)
Charles Darwin was hesitant, and rightly so. The implications of his crowning achievement, “On the Origin of Species,” would reach far and wide, setting off an upheaval in our conception of the natural world and our place within it. The idea that we are the latest iterations in a gradual biological process would infringe on certain sacred beliefs about the human ontology, the ramifications of which we still struggle with today.
(02/15/15 3:55pm)
The first one is always the hardest.
(02/05/15 5:34am)
With a history stretching back one and a half centuries, competitive rowing constitutes one of Penn’s oldest traditions. A familiar image: the bow of a boat calmly — almost effortlessly — cutting through the water surface as it advances on the river.
(02/03/15 6:25am)
Some habits die hard. Few people understand this oft-quoted cliche better than Nikola Kocovic.
(02/03/15 5:14am)
Louis Menand, in his New Yorker article “Live and Learn,” tackles the question of the purpose of American college education. That’s easy, we might say, but when we are left to contemplate this question, something ostensibly self-evident turns out to veil an intricate issue. Menand himself proposes a “democratic” theory of the ideal college education — a sort of coming-of-age experience designed to, by socializing students, provide the template for thinking like an adult while simultaneously cultivating our independence and critical faculties. This conception of college is presented in contrast to the far less romanticized views of college as primarily a sorting hat intended to shuffle you onto the right career track or, alternatively, as a time chiefly to acquire a specific set of skills applicable in a certain profession. Menand’s favored theory is well-received by many of us, but it also leaves the question: For how many of us does it ring true?
(01/20/15 3:29am)
On Aug. 9 last year, 18-year old Michael Brown was fatally shot in Ferguson, Mo. Another unjustified police shooting, another abrupt end to a life and another black teenager dead. For Michael, just eight days after graduating from high school, life had come to a definitive end. The incident sent shockwaves throughout the Ferguson community and soon echoed across all corners of America. It wasn’t an anomaly, only the latest in a series of similar events. It was another wound to an already bleeding country and a manifestation of the paramount American malady of racial inequality.
(01/20/15 5:13am)
After a less than stellar winter break, Penn wrestling needed some sort of success to right the ship before opening Ivy play. In consecutive meets this past weekend, the Quakers did exactly that.
(12/08/14 6:27am)
A trip to Bethlehem didn’t go as Penn wrestling would have liked, but more than one star emerged.
(11/10/14 3:22am)
If Penn rowing was looking for motivation heading into the winter, it certainly found it this Saturday.
