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(05/09/18 11:30am)
I thought I knew what I wanted when I got to Penn. I had already planned out which frats I would rush, what kind of friends I would make, what classes I would take, and even what clothes I would wear. To this day, I don’t think the intentions behind those decisions were misguided, but I ultimately got stuck in a tunnel vision that prevented me from making the most of Penn if it didn’t align with my neatly outlined plan.
(12/07/16 4:22am)
On Nov. 9, the American flag stood at half-mast at Hampshire College as a “reaction to the toxic tone of the monthslong election.” The following night, though, the flag was burned by an unidentified individual or group of individuals. The flag was quickly replaced and the college’s board of trustees decided to continue to fly it at half-mast in order to “mourn deaths from violence in the U.S. and around the world.”
(12/01/16 3:49am)
On Nov. 21, the conservative activist group, Turning Point USA, announced their latest creation: the Professor Watchlist. The goal of the website is “to expose and document college professors who discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.” Discrimination and bias in academia is a very serious issue, but even a cursory look at the Professor Watchlist proves that it’s just a McCarthy-esque ploy to vilify anyone who doesn’t buy into a narrow conservative worldview.
(11/09/16 7:46am)
America is not doomed. But man, should we be embarrassed.
(11/15/16 1:55am)
It’s easy to take food for granted. Most Penn students either have a dining plan or can afford to purchase food from one of the numerous restaurants or grocery stores around campus. But according to a recent report conducted by the University, 8 percent of Penn students are “high need,” usually meaning that they are living below the poverty level and require special assistance from the school. These students, and potentially many more at Penn, may be food insecure, a situation that affects approximately 20 percent of students at higher education institutions across the country.
(10/26/16 2:32am)
Last week, The Daily Pennsylvanian ran an article about Wharton sophomore Eric Hoover, who posted in the Penn Class of 2019 Facebook group that he intends to form a chapter on campus of a pro-life group called Students for Life of America (SFLA). Naturally, Hoover’s post caused a bit of chaos in the group as pro-choice advocates began to berate him with comments such as “welcome to the middle ages.”
(10/12/16 2:13am)
In June, Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York signed into law an executive order that created a blacklist of entities that have boycotted or divested from Israel (commonly associated with the boycott, divest and sanction, or “BDS,” movement), banning them from receiving taxpayer funding. In an opinion piece that Cuomo wrote for the Washington Post, he claims that the policy is justified due to the fact that BDS is “an insidious economic attack that is exclusively anti-Israel.”
(09/28/16 2:50am)
I’d wager that more than half of the Penn student body either watched the presidential debate on Monday or at least kept track of it somehow. Taking into account the fact that more than 100 million people were estimated to have watched the spectacle, it’s also probably fair to say that the American populace is interested in politics at this very moment.
(09/24/16 5:29pm)
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.
(09/14/16 3:53am)
Over the summer, Penn introduced a major tweak to its early decision application process that prevents students from applying early decision to Penn and early action to another private university. Penn’s Admissions Office claims that this will make it so that students who apply to Penn ED are more assured of their decision to pick Penn. However, until the problem of over-accepting ED students stops, this new policy does nothing to bring in more dedicated students.
(09/09/16 5:38pm)
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.
(08/31/16 3:19am)
In May, Harvard announced a historic move to enact penalties on its Final Clubs and greek life organizations. The ruling officially stated that, starting with the Class of 2021, any student who is an active member of a Final Club (an elite social club at Harvard) or a fraternity or sorority cannot attain a leadership role in any Harvard-affiliated club or athletic team. This would mean that even a perfect student with no academic or disciplinary blemishes could be punished simply for joining a community that the school has vilified to a remarkably extreme degree.
(04/27/16 3:49am)
Like those at most northeastern universities, many of Penn’s students are liberal. Because of this, I wasn’t surprised when I read an article in The Tab called “What it’s like being a Republican at Penn.” The writer interviews a member of Penn College Republicans who details some of the abuse he’s received simply based on his political orientation, including a moment in which he wore a College Republicans tank and was told, “I can’t believe you’re wearing that.”
(04/14/16 1:08am)
Last week, I read an article by Scripps College student Sophie Mann who made the bold claim that feminists — and liberals in general — equate victimhood with status. Believe it or not, Mann makes the claim that students, particularly at her school, welcome racial, sexist or homophobic abuse simply because it gives them the attention that victims of injustice normally receive.
(04/06/16 3:44am)
When I was younger, Easter was one of my favorite holidays. I loved the egg hunts, and the giant meal we would have for dinner was always delicious. For my family, celebrating Easter never really revolved around the religious aspects, but it became more about simply celebrating the holiday together. This past weekend though, as I studied for midterms and did homework, Easter didn’t feel like Easter anymore.
(03/16/16 2:09am)
Last week, The Harvard Crimson published an article by student Ian Mullane titled “The Privileged Liberal.” The piece is a quite vicious attack against students of wealthy or “privileged” backgrounds who happen to identify as liberal, a stance which Mullane believes is hypocritical. He sums up his argument best when he asks, “Why is it, however, that the children of the nation’s elite seem to have such disdain for the very system [capitalism] that, whether or not they’d like to admit, grants them many of the luxuries they enjoy?”
(02/24/16 6:21am)
Penn’s total budget allocates approximately $7.6 billion for expenditures during the 2016 fiscal year. Obviously much of the money goes into salaries, maintenance and daily operations, but as a research university, quite a bit of Penn’s funds are spent on faculty research.
(02/04/16 4:51am)
A couple weeks ago, fellow columnist Cameron Dichter wrote a column piece — “Whose speech matters?” — explaining why he believes that critics of political correctness are appropriating speech that hurts minorities who have nothing to gain through this example of free speech.
(01/21/16 4:29am)
Since middle school, every student has been taught just about all there is to know about crafting an argument. While different teachers have different styles, there is almost a unanimous model of the standard essay: three to four body paragraphs, an introduction and a conclusion with a firm thesis and supporting evidence. Schools are obliged to teach their students how to write convincing and intriguing arguments, but classes that teach students how to debate verbally, rather than just on paper, are rarely offered.
(12/07/15 6:21am)
In about a month or so, we Penn students will most likely have forgotten all the material we crammed for finals and instead be entirely focused on one thing: GPA.
