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(01/25/24 11:00am)
On Saturday, Dec. 9, Penn received news that had been expected for some time: Liz Magill announced her resignation. She had been receiving criticism from all sides for months. Some community members criticized her delayed acknowledgement of Hamas’s attack in October while others expressed dismay over her omission of any mention of Palestinians from her original statements on the conflict. When the news finally broke, however, a sense of fear over what was to come permeated much of campus discourse, because this event demonstrated just how much Penn's donor base is in control of narratives on our campus.
(11/10/23 4:18am)
Over the past few weeks at Penn, the tension in the air has become increasingly palpable. Much of the community has continued on with their lives, business as usual, while many others have been overwhelmed by grief and anger at the lives lost in Gaza and Israel. These strong sentiments have seemingly come from all sides and parties who have connections to the conflict, whether they are ideological, familial, religious, cultural, historical, or a combination of these factors. The story that has received the most coverage and attention at Penn, however, centers around people whose relationships to the campus lie primarily in their wealth: alumni donors.
(10/10/23 1:48am)
Coming in as a first year with little knowledge of the clubs and activities scene at Penn, I felt quite lost. In high school, I was the leader of many clubs, and I had hoped that Penn would offer even more opportunities to form communities with more variety, which would naturally come with a large school. I was shocked to find that the opposite was true.
