By William Zhang & Jason Choi
03/04/14 4:15am
Because only when an issue no longer remains taboo, and when a community is willing to approach and accept the foreign and unfamiliar, can true dialogue and harmony exist.
By Braden Amundsen
03/04/14 2:03pm
As a student body and administration, we are letting other things hold our attention, topics of lesser importance. We’re silencing this issue, letting the very real threat of sexual violence on this campus slip back under the radar.
By Sara Schonfeld
03/03/14 12:52am
What do we have at Penn as a last hurrah? I guess it was supposed to be Feb Club, but these events have left me feeling like the estranged cousin at a family holiday.
By Alexandra Friedman
03/03/14 1:29am
What can be gleaned from this realization? There is a unique worth of human life in Israel unlike that of almost any other nation.
By Diane Bayeux
03/02/14 8:50pm
When
I applied for housing last year, I automatically opted for the single option.
Like every new freshman, I wondered whether having a roommate would enable me
to attain the social scene of Penn more easily but rapidly gave up on that
moment of hesitation upon reassessing the fact that I like being on my own.
By Arielle Pardes
03/02/14 8:50pm
Back in January, a Duke freshman named Thomas Bagley was huddled up in his dorm room, watching porn on his laptop, when he saw something that made him pause the scene.
By Stephen J. MacCarthy
03/02/14 8:50pm
The free exchange of ideas is the lifeblood of an academic institution, and efforts to restrict that are in direct opposition to the values that we at Penn hold most dear.
By Roderick Cook
02/27/14 9:55am
When feminist spaces focus so heavily on intimate discussions of sex, they can very easily do a lot of harm to the same people for which they claim to be advocating.
By Michale Goldberger
02/27/14 1:28pm
The ASA’s boycott undermines the pursuit of education by limiting academic freedom, and therefore, by continuing to support the ASA, Penn is directly opposing its academic purpose by being part of the ASA.
By Sara Schonfeld
02/26/14 10:37am
For every female character, there are generally two male characters. Is it too much to ask that movies try a little bit harder to reflect reality? There are so many different types of diversity that Hollywood fails at.
By Collin Boots
02/26/14 11:30am
Drones cannot be morally culpable for their actions. Using language attributing the actions of the operator to the machine needlessly distracts from the legitimate moral and legal concerns surrounding drone strikes.
By Alexandra Friedman
02/25/14 12:39am
The idea of leaving the “ivory tower” of Penn often echoes throughout campus. It seems, however, not to have resonated with far too many students, who, like me as a freshman, rarely venture past 41st Street.
By Jonathan Iwry
02/25/14 12:44am
The things that fascinate me about the human condition, its most essential aspects, are so obvious and universal that you don’t need a class to discover them; you observe them just by living and seeing how others live.
By Akshat Shekhar
02/24/14 11:46am
We need to acknowledge that not only are these failures OK, but that they are inescapable for anyone trying to achieve on the daily basis what most students at Penn are.
By Chase Harrow
02/24/14 1:14am
A lot of the humanities have to do with how important it is to understand and love other people, and while that’s something so obvious that Barney the Dinosaur knows it, that doesn’t make it easy.
By Amy Gutmann
02/24/14 1:30am
Student input is essential to the work of the Task Force, and we anticipate that it will establish two working groups to carry out its charge, both of which will include students, faculty, and staff.
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
03/06/14 1:30am
Clearly we have decided as a society that, in principle, the Government has a compelling interest in disallowing certain religious observances when they counteract the public good.
By Collin Boots
03/05/14 2:08am
Religious freedom means you get to believe whatever you want. Religious freedom means you are free to practice your religion to the extent that it does not harm others.
By William Zhang & Jason Choi
03/04/14 4:15am
Because only when an issue no longer remains taboo, and when a community is willing to approach and accept the foreign and unfamiliar, can true dialogue and harmony exist.
By Sara Schonfeld
03/03/14 12:52am
What do we have at Penn as a last hurrah? I guess it was supposed to be Feb Club, but these events have left me feeling like the estranged cousin at a family holiday.
By Alexandra Friedman
03/03/14 1:29am
What can be gleaned from this realization? There is a unique worth of human life in Israel unlike that of almost any other nation.
By Roderick Cook
02/27/14 9:55am
When feminist spaces focus so heavily on intimate discussions of sex, they can very easily do a lot of harm to the same people for which they claim to be advocating.
By Sara Schonfeld
02/26/14 10:37am
For every female character, there are generally two male characters. Is it too much to ask that movies try a little bit harder to reflect reality? There are so many different types of diversity that Hollywood fails at.
By Collin Boots
02/26/14 11:30am
Drones cannot be morally culpable for their actions. Using language attributing the actions of the operator to the machine needlessly distracts from the legitimate moral and legal concerns surrounding drone strikes.
By Alexandra Friedman
02/25/14 12:39am
The idea of leaving the “ivory tower” of Penn often echoes throughout campus. It seems, however, not to have resonated with far too many students, who, like me as a freshman, rarely venture past 41st Street.
By Jonathan Iwry
02/25/14 12:44am
The things that fascinate me about the human condition, its most essential aspects, are so obvious and universal that you don’t need a class to discover them; you observe them just by living and seeing how others live.
By Akshat Shekhar
02/24/14 11:46am
We need to acknowledge that not only are these failures OK, but that they are inescapable for anyone trying to achieve on the daily basis what most students at Penn are.
By Roderick Cook
02/21/14 1:06am
We sometimes throw around this language with the best of intentions, but what are we really saying here? We are perpetuating the idea that queer and trans identities are things that we need to be OK with, but things that objectively are not good.
By William Zhang & Jason Choi
03/03/14 9:15pm
In reflection, even seemingly inconsequential and superficial differences, such as the fact that the word “football” is somewhat of a misnomer in the United States (it should really be called something along the lines of “hand-egg”), that Americans don’t study “maths” (a red squiggly line just appeared under the word as I write) or that the only affordable and edible Chinese food on campus comes from food trucks (try Yue Kee), have a much greater psychological impact.
By Frida Garza
02/21/14 1:06am
If John Legend is really the right guy for [Commencement], I challenge the selection committee to share why they have picked him.
By Alexandra Friedman
02/18/14 11:03pm
As long as our cultural definition of success requires that we identify “losers” among us, the ingredients for tragedy will be ever-present. When will we accept that we have already achieved success, just by being part of the Penn experience?
By Jonathan Iwry
02/18/14 11:04pm
Michel
de Montaigne once wrote that to philosophize is to learn how to die. That’s
easy enough to say - as a philosophy major, I have spent many a term paper
trying to solve some of the most intransigent questions ever asked.
By Frida Garza
02/16/14 11:29pm
Talking to someone inside four walls for an hour once a week should not be our only option. What we need right now is space to be together. And if we can’t do that outside College Hall, we will take to the internet.
By Collin Boots
02/18/14 2:56pm
Every single one of you reading this post is a blasphemer or a heretic to someone’s religion. The freedom of religion depends on the freedom to disagree with other religions. Blasphemy laws disallow that freedom in countless cases around the globe
By Arielle Pardes
02/13/14 11:01pm
But some women simply have lower libidos, and that’s completely normal. The growing interest in forms of “female Viagra” like Lady Prelox can make it seem like not feeling readily available for sex is an abnormality.
By Akshat Shekhar
02/13/14 11:11pm
We are to believe that a league in which three teams have signed Tim Tebow to a contract now considers media circuses anathema.
