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(12/04/13 8:32pm)
My father’s first death anniversary is less than a week from today. The Hindu calendar, being slightly different, marked my father’s first death anniversary last week. Caught between these two cultures, I wasn’t really sure when to sit and think to myself, “Wow, it’s been a year.”
(11/19/13 11:29pm)
College students spend a lot of their time either eating or thinking about what they’re going to eat.
(10/23/13 3:22am)
A couple weeks ago, I sat with a learning instructor at the Weingarten Learning Resources Center. He wrote down all of my classes on the whiteboard: four classes for my political science major and one to fulfill the pesky Living World requirement.
(09/25/13 10:31pm)
Over the past four years, I have received many questions about my Sri Lankan identity.
(09/11/13 12:07am)
Last week, when I was at Student Health Services, a nurse practitioner remarked on my weight loss of about 10 pounds since 2011 and warned me that my weight was dropping to a level that was unhealthy for someone my height.
(08/28/13 5:24am)
This past June, I met a six-year-old girl with big, serious-looking eyes who walked up to me and said, with a grave expression on her face, “Don’t worry, your secret is safe with me.”
(11/14/12 5:07am)
At the beginning of this semester, my body was trying to tell me something, but I couldn’t read the signs. I felt constant abdominal pains and my skin would react to certain foods that I ate. I juggled with these physical issues as I went between classes, work and spending time with friends.
(10/24/12 2:49am)
When it comes to dating, it seems that even the most vocal advocates of gender equality come to accept the status quo — men asking women out. In relationships that don’t fit the man-woman mold, the overtly masculine (or less feminine) usually initiates events that take it to the next level.
(10/10/12 5:39am)
Last Friday, Trevor Hall stood on stage — his arms inked with Sanskrit phrases, dreadlocks swaying from side to side — and chanted the words, “Om Shakti Om.”
(09/26/12 3:56am)
Hello, this is Mumia.
(09/12/12 2:51am)
I don’t tend to reflect on the philosophical implications of movies. But over the weekend, I watched two films that prompted me to think about my final year at Penn and what I want it to be defined by.
(02/16/11 8:35pm)
“Angry vaginas don’t want to play.”
(11/11/10 7:29am)
Wednesday evening, as students at 1920 Commons laughed and chatted over dinner, a very different kind of conversation was taking place two floors below.
(10/29/10 7:01am)
“Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze / Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.”
(10/21/10 4:49am)
Four out of every five women want to lose weight, according to the National Organization for Women Foundation. While this may not be surprising to some, given that women around the world are constantly faced with the glorification of the size zero and Hollywood’s standard of beauty, some women at Penn want to change this.
(10/14/10 7:34am)
Tuesday marked the 12th anniversary of the death of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old gay University of Wyoming student who was beaten to death in the town of Laramie, Wyo. The hate crime became the inspiration for Moises Kaufman’s award-winning play, The Laramie Project.
(09/22/10 6:32am)
“I would suggest one word for your generation: green,” Philadelphia Mayor and Penn alumnus Michael Nutter told Penn students Tuesday.