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(02/13/17 3:51am)
After discussing, in the latter portion of my previous column, the professional troll that is Breitbart News Tech Editor Milo Yiannopoulos, I was sincerely intending to pick a more pleasant topic for this week. But then, as fate would have it, three days after I wrote about the merits of light versus heat, a real (non-metaphorical) fire was started on the campus of University of California at Berkeley. Given the amount of free publicity Yiannopoulos has already received, I might have decided not to write about it, but the self-righteous disdain with which the media cast the protest has convinced me that a more nuanced take is in order.
(01/30/17 3:00am)
At The Daily Pennsylvanian’s Opinion Section we have a cardinal rule: Don’t feed the trolls! This is because — as is true in all online forums — divisive opinions tend to generate callous responses and replying to volatile comments usually just fuels the flame. Unfortunately, the end result is that my fellow columnists and I very rarely brave the comments section, and the important conversations that we had intended to start are either left unrequited or consumed by hateful messages.
(12/12/16 3:25am)
Back when I was in middle school and I hadn’t even heard the name Donald Trump, my science teacher gave the class a lesson on how to search the internet — specifically, how to tell the good sites from the bad. Ultimately, this meant sorting through a list of internet domains and distinguishing the URLs that led to inane reports of tree-climbing octopus monsters from the reputable sources we could use for writing a paper. Not surprisingly, no one fell for the octopi.
(11/28/16 2:37am)
I’m not sure if it was because of my general airheadedness, or a product of the post-election fallout, but for whatever reason, I completely forgot to sign up for courses by the end of advance registration. I understand this might not seem like a big deal to some. But in Penn’s pre-professional environment, where every other person you meet seems to be majoring in ways to make you feel inadequate, it’s easy to misconstrue little mistakes and take them as a sign that you’re falling behind the curve.
(11/14/16 4:48am)
There is no simple explanation — and therefore no simple solution — for the tragedy that is a Donald Trump presidency. It revealed how divided our country is, how disparate our worlds — liberal and conservative, urban and rural — have become. But in order to make sense of the senselessness, I turned to James Baldwin’s, “The Fire Next Time,” which came out of an era of deep racial tension in the 1960s — a period of similar divisiveness.
(10/31/16 1:20am)
In the words of Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price, “ ... at Penn everyone belongs.” It’s a strong sentiment; an ideal we should strive to reach. But unfortunately, in the eyes of many students, including College sophomore Luke Tortora, that sense of belonging has yet to be realized for one group in particular: Republicans.
(10/17/16 3:34am)
Before Donald Trump’s Access Hollywood tape fades from the news cycle and becomes just another scandal in an election season that’s seen many, I’d like to make one thing clear: Trump’s words are locker room talk. They aren’t just that though. They’re also dorm room talk and chapter house talk. Hell, for some men that’s what gets said over Sunday brunch.
(10/03/16 3:27am)
First we ruined the workforce, then marriage, then (somehow) the Olympics and now, according to a recent New York Times article, even the election may not be safe from millennials.
(10/01/16 5:22am)
GROUP THINK is the DP’s round table section, where we throw a question at the columnists and see what answers stick. Read your favorite columnist, or read them all.
(09/19/16 2:18am)
To commemorate last week’s anniversary of Sept. 11, members of Occidental College’s Republican Club planted 2,997 American flags — one for each victim of the attack — on their campus green, all of which were later removed by student protesters. This incident, now the subject of an ongoing investigation, has sparked a heated debate on campus over the symbol of the flag, what it represents and who gets to decide.
(04/25/16 2:44am)
After struggling in recent primaries, Donald Trump has turned to one of the more popular phrases of this election season — “the system is rigged!” Of course, there’s a reason that line of rhetoric has been so effective. As I’ve written before in previous articles, I view the rise of populist candidates like Sanders and Trump as a direct response to the plutocratic nature of our government.
(04/11/16 1:55am)
There’s been a great deal of debate over the disruption caused by activists at CIA Director John Brennan’s event on Friday. And while much has been written either condemning the protesters’ message or simply disagreeing with how they expressed it, I can’t help but reflect on one of the more remarkable moments of the event.
(03/28/16 4:14am)
In an age where every post, ad and BuzzFeed article is competing for space on your online newsfeed, it might seem natural to dismiss social media activism as being just another empty, attention-seeking hashtag. It’s an easy characterization to make and one I’ve read countless times over in opinion columns on the web.
(03/14/16 1:48am)
Given the rapid pace of climate change, bringing an end to global warming may seem like an impossible task. But in the debate over climate change at Penn, students face another seemingly insurmountable hurdle; that is, convincing the trustees who control Penn’s endowment to divest from fossil fuels. In order for divestment to occur, the proposal put forward by Penn Fossil Free must satisfy stringent guidelines and pass through four different committees.
(02/22/16 3:21am)
No one would disagree that this has been an unpredictable election cycle. But perhaps the biggest surprise is the success of two very unlikely candidates, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. Though originally written off as iconoclasts, Sanders and Trump have both made a name for themselves by embracing their anti-establishment appeal.
(02/09/16 2:31am)
For an event that promised to be all about their distinctions, Thursday night’s Democratic debate left out what might be the biggest issue currently separating Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders: their huge discrepancy in support from black voters. While Bernie has made significant headway against the “inevitable nominee,” his increase in support has come almost exclusively from white liberals. This may be all well and good in states like Iowa and New Hampshire but outside the white liberal bubble, Sanders has a long hill to climb.
(01/25/16 4:58am)
There’s a war over speech happening on college campuses. Namely, over what gets to be said and who gets to say it. As a college student, I find myself confused by the modern reincarnation of this debate. Why has “free speech,” a term that has historically meant protecting the rights of minorities to speak out against hate and injustice, come to represent the defense of offensive language? And why has “political correctness,” a term that denotes the challenging of injustices, become so vehemently hated?
(12/02/15 4:51am)
It’s no secret that Penn students have an insatiable appetite for events that include drinking. But in the world of Penn social life where almost anything can (and probably will) be pregamed, there is no better example than the time honored tradition of the Bring Your Own.
