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S&M fans would find much to like in the “discipline and punish” stance the Daily Pennsylvanian took towards student groups in its recent editorial. Yet this paper’s coverage and the Student Activities Council’s public commentary, have not fully addressed the underlying causes of the debt problem and their proper solutions.
Pity the poor City University of New York Board of Trustees (you know, the ones who denied Pulitzer-winning playwright Tony Kushner an honorary degree owing to one trustee’s totally false impression of said playwright’s views on Israel). Why? Because when it comes to exercising covert influence on their institutions they’re such a sad amateur outfit. I hope that one or two of those trustees are coming to the meeting of the Penn Board of Trustees so they can learn at the feet of masters.
Goodbye Penn. You’ve been ambivalent to me; I, in turn, am ambivalent to you.
Christopher Abreu’s powerful column on Monday ascribed racism as the reason for his atrocious treatment at the hands of two sets of drunken students. Yet for our response to merely be a condemnation of racism confuses the symptom with the disease.
I know I am a bad person. Not just because so many people so regularly assert it in public, but also because, honestly, I don’t enjoy Fling. Or, more accurately, I don’t enjoy it in the right way.
Cornelius Range, the Undergraduate Assembly presidential candidate and College junior who shares with this author a penchant for dramatic resignations, recently revealed in a UA debate that, along with so-called student government “oligarchs,” he really doesn’t like international students.
Jane had everything a potential employer could want. Lots of work experience. Glowing references. Two degrees in the sciences. A brilliant interview.
Next year, Penn will exclude medically necessary treatment for some transsexuals from the staff and faculty healthcare plan. It will do so despite the heartfelt pleas of its employees, despite the recommendation of its benefits committee, despite the miniscule cost of the addition and despite the inclusion of exactly those benefits in the student healthcare plan this year. Why?
“Someone must have laid a false accusation against Joseph K, because one day he was arrested without having done anything wrong.”
Last Wednesday, one of the most powerful and important bodies at Penn (at least officially) held a public meeting. Didn’t make it? Don’t worry — neither did a majority of its members. You didn’t miss much. It was only University Council, after all.
It’s the dream of many Penn students — the opportunity to take a year or two and study at the great institutions of the United Kingdom.
Past leaders of the Student Activities Council are responsible for the over-budgeting crisis, but they should receive little of its blame. They sinned for the best of reasons — they loved too much in a loveless world.
The Student Activities Council is going bankrupt.
We believe in the free market here in the US of A.
Festivus, the holiday designed by Seinfeld’s George Costanza to replace Christmas, features Feats of Strength (“not the Feats of Strength!”). At Penn, our holiday ritual is the Feat of Sleeplessness: not sleeping and being proud of it. It’s just one way college students hurt themselves. What makes it special is that our professors don’t just tolerate it; they mandate it. But this unhealthy state of affairs can and should change — if we decide to radically rethink assessment in education.
It was the minute that transformed a tragedy into a triumph. A little more than 60 seconds separated two carjackers crashing their vehicle into the barrier on 40th and Locust streets, their apprehension by the Penn police, the shootout and the situation’s resolution. Behind that minute lay sophisticated technology, complex logistics and years and years of training. It all worked flawlessly.
To everyone who submits Shoutouts this semester: please don’t be mean.
It’s $35,000 of your and your parents’ hard-earned money. It’s allocated by a board of people you’ve never met, to events you seldom hear about, without any public records or accountability. Worst of all, it doesn’t fulfill its official reason for existence — all it does is line the pockets of six powerful coalitions at Penn. It’s called the Intercultural Fund, and it should be redirected to its original mission — interculturalism — fast.
Located prominently on the homepage of Undergraduate Admissions is a headline that reads, in bold, reassuring type: “You can afford Penn.”
One of the great myths of the recent spate of suicides on the part of gay youth is that their deaths are the result of homophobia. The problem is not Homophobia. The problem is bullying.