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(04/22/24 8:48pm)
On Apr. 9, 2022, Black students were egged, denigrated, and called racial slurs at an off-campus Penn party. Though the incident was reported to Penn Police, the aggressors were never discovered. Instead, Penn gave a donation to Penn’s Black Student League (BSL). This funding came just two years after Penn Student Government’s donation of $250,000 to Black student programming: with $150,000 dedicated to UMOJA, a funding board and umbrella organization for constituent Black student groups.
(10/23/23 12:24am)
Had Charlie Javice known that falsifying the worth of her startup would lead to a felony indictment? Had she realized that people don’t dupe J.P. Morgan — one of the nation’s most powerful financial institutions — and get away with it? Or had she truly convinced herself that she, a twenty-something Wharton graduate from Westchester, was intelligent enough, special enough to pull the wool over the eyes of the American criminal justice system?
(04/12/23 4:54am)
Welcome to a new episode of "Penn, Daily," presenting your daily newsletter briefing. Read the full newsletter here.
(04/11/23 12:48pm)
In 2021, Philadelphia’s district attorney Larry Krasner, caught flak for his statements about the city’s crime spike. “We don’t have an issue of lawlessness,” Krasner said. “We don’t have a crisis of crime. We don’t have a crisis of violence.” The statement came in the midst of a record year for homicides in Philadelphia, a number that has skyrocketed in virtually all major American cities since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Krasner was swiftly accused of downplaying the collective experience of individuals who have lost loved ones to violence. In an op-ed for the Philadelphia Inquirer, former Philadelphia mayor Michael A. Nutter called Krasner’s words, “some of the worst, most ignorant, and most insulting comments I have ever heard spoken by an elected official.”
(02/07/23 2:24am)
Welcome to a new episode of "Penn, Daily," presenting your daily newsletter briefing. Read the full newsletter here.
(02/06/23 12:52am)
Georg Hegel in his famous text, "The Philosophy of History," wrote that Africa is “no historical part of the world; it has no movement of development to exhibit…What we properly understand by Africa, is the Unhistorical, Undeveloped Spirit, still involved in the conditions of mere nature, and presented here only as on the threshold of the World’s History.” More disturbing than Hegel’s ideations about Africa is the esteem to which we hold him today. I’ve read about this guy in sociology classes. When discussing Du Bois’ double consciousness, we used a passage from Hegel’s "Phenomenology of Spirit" to better understand the African-American struggle during the Civil Rights Era. I’m horrified now thinking that I’ve learned about "The Souls of Black Folk" through the eyes of someone who didn’t consider Africa, our ancestral home, a worthy subject of study in the first place.
(12/09/22 8:10pm)
I don’t know what I expected after I watched the October 22nd Pennsylvania Senate debate, and saw Former Lt. Gov. John Fetterman labor through his responses, struggling to defend himself against accusations lodged by his Republican opponent, Mehmet Oz. I knew the world would not respond kindly — try as we might, we are not yet accustomed to the idea that a politician need not be perfectly articulate to succeed at his job. But I didn’t know whether Fetterman’s debate performance would cost him the upcoming election. I was not sure that we, as Americans, were ready to elect a man with an auditory processing disorder to high office.
(10/29/22 1:09pm)
The University of Pennsylvania is the seventh-richest institution of higher education in the country. In 2021, its endowment was valued at $20.5 billion. And yet, Penn — like other universities nationwide — is listed as a non-profit organization. This allows for Penn — the largest private landowner in Philadelphia — to legally pay zero property taxes to local governments.
