Senior columnist Mariana Martinez criticizes the need for immediacy in dating and encourages students to be more vulnerable.
Senior columnist Mritika Senthil explains how student groups exploit high-traffic weekends to cash in on overcrowded, overpriced downtown parties.
Columnist Lindsay Muneton highlights the social divide between on and off-campus students as a consequence of university inaction.
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The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board
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Nov. 21, 2025
The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board urges Penn students to connect broadly with Philadelphia as the United States celebrates its 250th birthday.
Columnist Kamau Louis argues that Penn is lacking in its effort to protect Black students in the recent wake of a racist video.
Guest columnist Ted Kwee-Bintoro demands that Penn take concrete action to guarantee the physical security of its students, faculty, and staff.
Guest columnist Ted Kwee-Bintoro demands that Penn take concrete action to guarantee the physical security of its students, faculty, and staff.
Senior columnist Mritika Senthil explains how student groups exploit high-traffic weekends to cash in on overcrowded, overpriced downtown parties.
Columnist Lindsay Muneton highlights the social divide between on and off-campus students as a consequence of university inaction.
Viktor Wittner | Penn has a diversity problem, but not the one you think
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Viktor Wittner
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Nov. 18, 2025
Columnist Viktor Wittner sheds light on Penn’s lack of initiative to recruit and support rural students.
Columnist Andy Mei provides a satirical look at the relationship between loneliness and busyness, commenting on the use of work as an excuse to be a worse friend.
Columnist Marie Dillard explores the rise in anti-Black racist rhetoric happening on campus following the incidents that have occurred near campus.
Columnist Gladys Smith mourns the forgotten art of reading.
Columnist Charlotte Pulica explains the importance of research at Penn, and why every student should participate in some form of research to further their education.
Senior columnist Mia Vesely discusses the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and dispels the notion that such programs are misused or unessential.
Columnist Greta Lynch argues that social media is dulling the minds of our generation, but not for the reasons we’re often told.
Eliav Zendehdel | The College is becoming what Ben Franklin always intended
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Eliav Zendehdel
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Nov. 10, 2025
Guest columnist Eliav Zendehdel shares his experiences in the new College Foundations curriculum and argues for its wider implementation at Penn.
Columnist Elijah Ramirez urges students to stop perpetuating social hierarchy in Greek life, and aims to remind students of the true purpose fraternities and sororities serve.
Senior Columnist Diya Choksey explores why hazing persists at Penn, arguing that it stems less from rebellion than from a culture that confuses endurance with belonging.
Columnist Sohum Sheth argues the world’s best business school needs a healthy dose of civic consciousness.
Guest columnist Daniel J. Hopkins argues that grade inflation weakens the impact of a Penn education.
Francesco Salamone | There is a serious problem with meritocracy
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Francesco Salamone
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Nov. 5, 2025
Columnist Francesco Salamone argues that American meritocracy breeds immense psychological pressure unlike Europe’s acceptance of human flaw and comedic humility.
Guest columnist Malia Sanghvi argues that an undergraduate business education makes the world a better place by preparing students to deliver value to society via profit.
