Articles by Lucy Hu

04/30/19 6:33pm
I will always have to choose between pursuing my passions in the United States of America and being with my family. If I choose one, I can’t have the other.
03/24/19 6:55pm
Putting yourself ahead — whether through bribing coaches, doctoring resumes, or using unethical means to get extra time on exam — is destructive.
02/24/19 12:24pm
History had a reason to fear foreign tyranny. But history has also shown what makes America great — a nation built by immigrants where all Americans are treated equally.
02/03/19 6:09pm
But when I peeled back the layers of historical extravagance, I realized that while the Ivy League evokes less Harry Potter imagery than Cambridge or Oxford, the actual learning experience may be more worth the prestige than the English schools.
11/28/18 7:55pm
We live in Philadelphia, the birthplace of the world’s oldest democracy.
10/25/18 7:55pm
It’s time to take off our red hats and blue pins and give each candidate a fair shot.
09/23/18 10:40pm
Public opinion evolves with current events, but Washington legislators’ motives do not.
05/16/18 3:35pm
The opinion pages should help us understand and make sense of the world, and it is my duty to do the investigations so readers don’t have to.
04/23/18 12:01am
Are our consulting clubs so important that we don’t have time to help a middle-schooler learn how to read?
04/09/18 5:32pm
Columnist Lucy Hu takes to Locust Walk to get students' opinions on legacy admissions in the second installment of her video series, "Locust Talk." 
04/08/18 9:38pm
Some argue that the main crux of university is to take classes and earn a degree, and therefore, academic excellence is key to success. But, the purpose of university is to provide an education, and the purpose of education extends far beyond classroom learning.
03/26/18 5:26am
It’s time for Asian Americans to stop talking about their struggles in the “API community,” without actually knowing anything about the PI community.
03/19/18 4:44pm
Columnist Lucy Hu takes to Locust Walk to get students' opinions on Penn's "liberal bubble" in a new weekly video series.  
02/25/18 6:52pm
The lives of racial minorities should not be used as horseplay for political banter. This is a realm where viewpoints from the right seek to silence those who have already been traditionally suppressed.
02/12/18 8:00am
Despite many fraternities’ cult-like efforts to keep pledging under wraps to avoid prosecution, most Penn students have heard accounts from pledges about sleepless nights, humiliating activities, and servant-type orders from pledge masters.
01/29/18 8:00am
Like my accent, my home is blended. Instead of a bundle of discrete experiences in one city, home subconsciously grew into a collection of dynamic nuances in multiple places.
12/11/17 8:05pm
The fall semester is just about to end and a lot has happened that has left lasting impressions and changes on this campus.
12/05/17 8:37pm
Penn, it might be time to stop saying you love helping minorities, when you actually subdue them once they start to threaten your white domination.
11/19/17 6:50pm
Do we need a major overhaul of the UC or does the UC just have a brand problem?
11/07/17 10:35pm
In a time when there have been a large amount of pressing issues among students, the announcement of New College House West's construction comes as a distraction from the calls to action within the Penn community. 
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