By Noah Feit
04/21/14 12:06am
My partners and I believe that this trip will serve to temper the polarized dialogue that currently characterizes the conversation about Israeli-Palestinian issues at Penn. Through the mission, we hope to create a space for nuanced discussion on the United States’ role in the Middle East.
By Roderick Cook
04/17/14 9:01pm
From the first moment that I was offered a beer at a party to this very day whenever people around me are drinking, I have felt at least a little bit uncomfortable and have had a sense of dread. I can’t quite explain it, but it’s very real.
By Edward Scott
04/18/14 1:55am
Since 1983, straight people have had the privilege of not needing to have an internal conversation about whether their blood is worthy. They will not have the experience of being in a student organization’s meeting where a blood drive is chosen as the next philanthropic event, knowing they cannot participate due to their sexuality.
By Taylor Culliver
04/17/14 7:56pm
On Tuesday, April 15, The Daily Pennsylvanian published an article titled “Welcome to the new Penn basketball” with an accompanying graphic of the Penn basketball team.
By Collin Boots
04/17/14 7:56pm
I personally don’t care for natural disaster films, but to me Noah represents a desirable future direction for Hollywood. Why not put Samson and David in the same category as Thor, Hercules and other characters of old mythologies?
By Jonathan Iwry
04/17/14 7:56pm
What we need is to get back in touch with our intellectual heritage—to understand Judaism not as a collection of divine dos and don’ts, but as an ongoing existential and ethical dialogue that evolves across generations.
By Alyssa Dickinson
04/16/14 1:25am
Penn is full of noteworthy initiatives. But we would like to
highlight one in particular: Penn Dining and Bon Appetit’s efforts to work with
students to implement a food recovery program.Starting this fall, our dining services providers, Penn
Dining and Bon Appetit, will establish a program that transfers food unable to
be consumed at dining halls to a local hunger relief agency.
By Diane Bayeux
04/16/14 1:22am
As many of you know,
Philadelphia has a lot of thrift stores, whether in our bubble of West Philly,
in Center City or on South Street.
By Penn for Palestine
04/15/14 6:18am
We believe that the Ivy Plus Leadership Mission to Israel, whether it be intentional or unintentional, will in fact obscure and hide many of the oppressive actions of the Israeli government that are categorically wrong and illegal.
By Sara Schonfeld
04/22/14 7:25pm
This Fling, I bought fried Oreos and wore ridiculous amounts of neon. I wore sunglasses at night and forgot my sweater at home and stopped for fried chicken. I even got yelled at by the cops.
By Sarah Ahmed
04/14/14 6:03pm
Every experience with Teach for America is different — just as every graduate of an education program will have a different path.
By Laura Tedeschi
04/13/14 8:56pm
This community exemplifies the power of shared experience as an unspoken bond between veterans, creating a forum for mutual understanding and hope. Veterans of the VMC community are eager to be heard by the ear of an individual with a genuine desire to support them. But there is more to be done.
By Alina Liu
04/10/14 9:36pm
Through her years of advocacy work, various death threats have been made toward Ayaan Hirsi by religious extremists because of her outspoken style against Islam.
By Collin Boots
04/10/14 9:35pm
A 2011 study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology showed that subjects were more likely to distrust an atheist than they were to trust a rapist.
By Sara Schonfeld
04/13/14 7:13pm
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that I’ve been
planning for this Fling for over a year.For the first time, I went out and bought myself a fling
tank.
By Jonathan Iwry
04/10/14 4:12pm
While indulging is healthy from time to time, we shouldn’t need to rely on a purging period to escape an overwhelming work life. College is just as much about social experiences as it is academics.
By The Daily Pennsylvanian
12/11/13 1:02am
Just 12 percent of Penn students estimate that they come from a household making under 50,000 — less than the 13 percent who would estimate that their parents make over $450,000.
By The Daily Pennsylvanian
12/11/13 12:53am
We’ve been less willing to look critically at aspects of Penn culture that create these social divisions and discuss actions we can all take to promote discussion about money at Penn.
By The Daily Pennsylvanian
11/25/13 9:28pm
We would like to tell the many students in an uproar over the injustice of “good study spaces” only being available to Wharton students to kindly calm down.
By The Daily Pennsylvanian
11/17/13 11:12pm
Those who disagree certainly have a right to protest Penn Secular Society, but we would encourage them to find more productive ways of protest.
By The Daily Pennsylvanian
11/12/13 11:30pm
We do believe that there are significant shortcomings in the existing housing system.
By The Daily Pennsylvanian
11/03/13 10:44pm
There is no real reason Penn should be charging students to use campus space for legitimate extracurricular activities.
By The Daily Pennsylvanian
10/31/13 11:37pm
Students and administrators alike need to re-evaluate how we approach, respond to and inform ourselves about sexual assault at Penn.
By The Daily Pennsylvanian
10/31/13 11:37pm
We believe that anyone found guilty of sexual assault should be suspended from campus for at least a semester.
By The Daily Pennsylvanian
10/23/13 11:44pm
We thank Facilities and Real Estate Services for bringing more retail dining options to campus that are not only in tune with student interests and preferences but also healthy, unique and local businesses.
By The Daily Pennsylvanian
10/20/13 11:31pm
That said, it’s not all on the creators of the game. Altogether, students — both those who detest the game and those who find it fun — have spent hours on the site.
By The Daily Pennsylvanian
10/16/13 10:13pm
If even a 40-plus-year-old Penn tradition can’t entice students to show some Penn pride, it begs the question of why Penn Athletics is so adamant about charging students to see basketball games.
By The Daily Pennsylvanian
10/14/13 9:49pm
We can ensure that students who want to work can do so by fixing the existing work-study system, rather than adding to it.
By The Daily Pennsylvanian
10/08/13 11:33pm
We think both the local government and Penn should take steps to make 38th and Spruce safer.
By The Daily Pennsylvanian
10/07/13 12:17am
We’d like to see not only big names at these events, but people whose lives have been defined more by their work on the ground than by what they did before giving back.
By The Daily Pennsylvanian
09/27/13 12:01am
We were glad that the administration reached out to us in the first place. But transparency and collaboration on the front end need to carry over throughout the whole process.
By The Daily Pennsylvanian
09/11/13 11:32pm
Perhaps in a few years, 9/11 will be yet another tragically storied day that future students can only relate to through stories, textbooks and movies. But that time hasn’t come yet.
By The Daily Pennsylvanian
08/28/13 12:24am
To help you out, here’s a list of things we wish we had been told — or wish we had listened to — when we were in your shoes.
By The Daily Pennsylvanian
07/16/13 12:12pm
As the very students about whom Taylor makes overarching generalizations, we are disappointed that she failed to account for the rich diversity of our student body by only acknowledging the responses of a subset of single, straight women — an unrepresentative sample tainted by its homogeneity.
By The Daily Pennsylvanian
04/19/13 12:21am
While this bill was not a large step, it was progress, it was momentum, it could have been precedent. With it, we could have moved forward — still together — and talked about what more we could do. The fact that we can do nothing is just ridiculous.
By The Daily Pennsylvanian
04/18/13 12:46am
We’re not saying underage drinking is not a crime and that certain persons are above the law. We are saying that the police weren’t enforcing the law — they were enforcing Fling.
By Collin Boots
04/22/14 10:15pm
“Big-pharma” and “conventional medicine” became bogeymen that use their overwhelming political power to suppress the “natural healing” wonders of Supplementary, Complementary and Alternative Medicine (SCAMs).
By Alexandra Friedman
04/21/14 11:34pm
Israel has certainly played a role in prolonging the Palestinian condition. To say that Israel and its policies are the root cause of the problem, however, is historically inaccurate.
By Sara Schonfeld
04/20/14 9:47pm
You wouldn’t go on a second date with someone that makes you crazy — why spend your Friday night getting drinks with a “friend” who is toxic?
By Roderick Cook
04/17/14 9:01pm
From the first moment that I was offered a beer at a party to this very day whenever people around me are drinking, I have felt at least a little bit uncomfortable and have had a sense of dread. I can’t quite explain it, but it’s very real.
By Diane Bayeux
04/16/14 1:22am
As many of you know,
Philadelphia has a lot of thrift stores, whether in our bubble of West Philly,
in Center City or on South Street.
By Sara Schonfeld
04/22/14 7:25pm
This Fling, I bought fried Oreos and wore ridiculous amounts of neon. I wore sunglasses at night and forgot my sweater at home and stopped for fried chicken. I even got yelled at by the cops.
By Collin Boots
04/10/14 9:35pm
A 2011 study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology showed that subjects were more likely to distrust an atheist than they were to trust a rapist.
By Sara Schonfeld
04/13/14 7:13pm
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that I’ve been
planning for this Fling for over a year.For the first time, I went out and bought myself a fling
tank.
By Jonathan Iwry
04/10/14 4:12pm
While indulging is healthy from time to time, we shouldn’t need to rely on a purging period to escape an overwhelming work life. College is just as much about social experiences as it is academics.
By William Zhang & Jason Choi
04/09/14 1:01am
Social media sites have been flooded by "pray for MH
370" messages ever since the unresolved disappearance of the airplane and
its 227 passengers.
By Alexandra Friedman
04/07/14 8:57pm
It is not merely unwise for a company or its CEO to openly harbor anti-gay sentiment; it is suicidal.
By Roderick Cook
04/06/14 9:49pm
Our mere existence [as queer and trans people] challenges the structure of objectification of women that frat parties are designed for.
By Diane Bayeux
04/06/14 9:51pm
Perhaps the true motives that need to be discussed here are those of the audience. Indeed, an artwork is valued on different levels according to the public’s reaction. Without the public, an artwork can sit in an empty space forever.
By Arielle Pardes
04/03/14 9:38pm
So if women are generally pretty generous with their ratings and they’re using the app to recommend their guy friends, crushes and ex-boyfriends to other women rather than to bash them for past experiences, why are men so afraid of it? Rather than being full of the vindictive reviews that men seem wary of, most Lulu scores are actually full of praise.
By Frida Garza
04/02/14 9:18pm
In college, we’re all prone to procrastination — a quick game is more attractive than a problem set that will take eight hours to finish — but as we download the new big “thing,” we should be aware of our capacity for obsession. These games don’t offer instant gratification — they deliberately delay it. It’s tempting to submerge ourselves in activities that are less challenging than rewarding. Games like 2048 are one, but not the other.
By Roderick Cook
03/31/14 9:42pm
Expressing femininity in a way that I have been actively and passively told that I am not supposed to has been such a powerful and important experience. It’s helped me to understand my gender and myself in ways that I have previously not been able to.
By Sam Sherman
03/28/14 3:01am
I study chemistry and art not for the purpose of finding some superficial link between them such as art restoration, but rather to open my avenues of exploration of the world in a larger way.
By Jonathan Iwry
03/27/14 12:21am
Counselors like to advise people to put their problems in context. Sometimes, however, it’s the context that’s the problem. Smart and privileged Ivy League students are told to focus on how great they have it, but for many, college is far from great.
By Roderick Cook
03/25/14 11:33pm
Oftentimes, it is not simply a matter of someone needing to “get over” their trigger. It may be impossible or extremely difficult to do so, and in any case, it is not up to someone else to decide that it is time for someone to face these issues.
By Alexandra Friedman
03/25/14 1:48am
On my first day
of spring break, I got the first of many emails about Hey Day.Stream of consciousness: What?! Hey Day?! But Hey Day is for rising
seniors and I’m not a ... oh.
