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Francesco Salamone | Please sit down and just exist

(04/16/24 3:15pm)

I remember running at Pottruck Health and Fitness Center once in the snowy winter and turning my head slightly to the left to admire an ordered line of beautiful runners. Amid athletes, newcomers, adults, men, and women, I noticed a common denominator: Everyone was wearing AirPods while glued to a screen. Everyone but me. Why do we maximize every valuable moment of downtime for mindless entertainment, leaving no space for mind wandering? Why do we value overstimulating distractions over contemplative introspections?








In Photos: Over 1,000 Penn community members attend solar eclipse viewing party

(04/09/24 3:00pm)

Penn found itself in the path of the Great North American Eclipse on April 8. While Philadelphia only experienced partial totality, Monday’s eclipse was the first eclipse sighting in the region since August 21, 2017. To celebrate the momentous event, Penn organized an eclipse viewing party on College Green. The Daily Pennsylvanian photographers captured the scene on the ground as the moon made its rare passage in front of the sun.


No regrets: Penn rowing senior Ben Rutherford plans to give his last season his all

(04/10/24 5:16am)

Standing at an intimidating 6-foot-2 and 210 pounds, most people’s first impression of senior heavyweight rower Ben Rutherford would not be that of an underdog. Rutherford’s genuine appreciation towards his team, coaches, and community are the marks of a leader who has made it through to the other side in the face of heavy adversity.








224 Penn Faculty | Statement in support of graduate worker unionization

(04/09/24 11:46pm)

This year, a supermajority of Penn’s graduate research and teaching assistants signed cards indicating their desire to form a union, and this April, they will finally have the chance to vote to do so. As Penn faculty, we affirm these student workers’ right to organize — a right explicitly recognized by the National Labor Relations Board. We affirm the value of the research and teaching they do, without which our university could not function. And we recognize that in building a union together, they are striving to make Penn a better, fairer, and more democratic university — one in which those who do the work of research and teaching have a voice in institutional policies that affect their lives, and in which working conditions are equitable. Today, graduate research and teaching assistants are unionized at virtually all of Penn’s peer institutions. Having a democratic voice at work has become a national norm for graduate student workers, and we support the efforts of graduate student workers at Penn to bring our university in line with this norm.