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Earlier this month, the Penn student body elected a new slate of its highest leadership: the president and vice president of the Undergraduate Assembly. Voter participation was less than satisfactory with only 1,524 ballots cast out of a pool of over 7,000 eligible voters. Even worse, this appalling turnout actually marks an increase in student engagement from years prior.
Before students establish their majors and concentrations, each undergraduate begins their degree by fulfilling general education requirements. While the College has its sectors and Wharton has its fundamentals, there is one requirement universal to all four of Penn’s undergraduate schools: the critical writing seminar.
Last fall, a plethora of new results from U.S. News & World Report, Wall Street Journal, and Forbes elevated Penn in their national college rankings. Nearly every list places Penn among the top 10, some going as far as placing the University among the top five. This universal growth resulted from a key change in most of these sources’ metrics: greater consideration given to postgraduate salaries.
On any given weeknight, I often find myself spending the last few minutes of my day scrolling through Sidechat. Our favorite anonymous form of social media is always a convenient place to rant, or simply a locus for relatable humor. Though, I noticed that there was one striking drawback. Whether attention-seeking or sincere, nearly every post aims to vilify the school we attend.
After an incredibly tumultuous semester of conflict, clashes, and controversy, Penn has found itself in a leadership crisis. I spent time nearly every day this term thinking about the issue of antisemitism, social movements forming at Penn, and how our administration was under fire from donors and (eventually) politicians. In what has seemed like an impending doom since October, Liz Magill’s resignation on Saturday sparked reactions from every corner of our campus.
Since I arrived at Penn three months ago, tensions over social and political issues have risen to a level I’d never seen before. The Palestine Writes Literature Festival, the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, and the University’s reaction to those events have plummeted our campus into controversy. Nearly every Penn student has felt the effects of ongoing conflict this semester.
Last week, The Daily Pennsylvanian released a column by David Shapiro, the lawyer representing Penn Law Professor Amy Wax. In that piece, Shapiro defended Wax’s past and claimed that President Liz Magill’s response to the Palestine Writes Literature Festival exposed Penn’s far-left political bias.
Unlike most Penn first years on the first day of class, I didn't think about my dreaded 8:30 a.m. seminar. Rather, I coined Aug. 29 as the first day that I could request access to my file from Penn Admissions.
Last year, Penn admitted students from 48 states and 97 countries into its Class of 2027. By every metric, Penn’s incoming class profile paints a vastly diverse picture. In many ways, this illustration of our students is accurate. However, our university fails to advertise that every year they reliably admit candidates from the same exact high schools.