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(02/26/24 2:31am)
My guess is that nearly everyone reading this article knows someone who has been academically disingenuous, or been that someone before. Being academically dishonest isn’t all about flashy examples, like the two admitted Penn students accused of plagiarism and fabricating data in 2022. There are smaller violations that may feel less egregious, or even harmless, like querying ChatGPT for help completing your homework, peeking at a friend’s lab assignment, or answering a PollEverywhere as if you’re in class, when really, you’re snoozing in your dorm.
(12/11/23 4:23am)
Since Liz Magill and Scott Bok resigned from the positions of President and Board of Trustees Chair, respectively, our Opinion department staff columnists and the Editorial Board have weighed in with their thoughts on the situation. We will be updating this page throughout the week with additional commentary and perspectives.
(12/08/23 3:00pm)
Reflecting on the events of the past few months, several Penn alumni have reached out to The Daily Pennsylvanian with thoughts on the Palestine Writes Literature Festival, the ongoing Israel-Gaza war, the withholding of alumni donations, and responses from Penn’s administration to these ongoing crises.
(10/19/23 2:03am)
In light of the war between Israel and Hamas, members of Penn's community have reached out to The Daily Pennsylvanian to share their thoughts and perspectives.
(09/19/23 2:46am)
In light of the upcoming Palestine Writes Literature Festival, members of Penn's community have reached out to The Daily Pennsylvanian to publish several guest columns sharing their thoughts, concerns, and analysis. We will be updating this page throughout the week leading up to the festival with new commentary and perspectives.
(09/07/23 4:07am)
It’s recruiting season for clubs and pubs at Penn, and The Daily Pennsylvanian is looking for new reporters, columnists, photographers, analysts, and more. You know the drill – we’re excited to welcome enthusiastic DPers in the making, aiming to spend long production nights at 4015 Walnut Street with us and take on an unofficial journalism major. You can apply here by filling out our interest form, which closes this Friday at 11:59 p.m.
(08/22/23 2:34am)
The Supreme Court's decision to strike down race-conscious admissions in higher education has caused shockwaves across the country. Columnists at The Daily Pennsylvanian and Penn community members alike have shared their thoughts, reactions, and insights.
(05/12/23 6:27am)
As the school year comes to a close, outgoing staff members of The Daily Pennsylvanian have written senior columns reflecting on their time at Penn and offering advice to the Penn community.
(11/10/22 5:33pm)
Professor Simon Richter is the Class of 1942 Endowed Term Professor of German — he is also one of the most vocal faculty members on climate change that I have ever met. Richter is a key founder of Climate Week at Penn and its signature 1.5* Minute Climate Lectures as well as an instructor for "Water Worlds" and "Forest Worlds," two courses heavily focused on examining the environment through a humanities lens.
(10/20/22 6:42pm)
It is all too common a sentiment at Penn, as pre-professional and high-achieving as it is, to feel like we are not doing enough. But I don’t believe that is the whole story: If I could checklist my way to happiness, I’d do it in a heartbeat. I’d take courses in the philosophy of music and underwater basket-weaving and wine tasting; I’d do twenty handstands a day, walk 30 miles, whatever.
(09/12/22 10:33am)
When I sit in a lecture hall, my eyes tend to wander away from the professor and toward my peers. You know the picture: Some students are chatting with their friends over iMessage, while others are browsing through Handshake, applying to various open positions. Still others are shopping online, or rushing a CIS assignment.
(08/21/22 11:10am)
Welcome to Penn, everybody! We are all very excited to have you — as long as you can pay us, of course.
(04/21/22 5:23pm)
Two attendees at an event with 200 Insomnia Cookies. My suitemate and I sat in the club lounge, constructing model solar systems from styrofoam spheres and an assortment of paints. We were celebrating the Spring Equinox through an event organized at New College House West, but you wouldn’t know it from the poor showing.
(01/28/22 11:13pm)
My stepdad, a ‘75 Yalie and physicist, jokes that he was admitted as a part of the University’s “geek quota.” He was a high school student whose idea of playing hooky was playing with lasers in his friend’s basement. He wasn’t wealthy or suave. He once went to a mixer at Yale wearing hip hugging, hot pink bell bottoms and seriously questioned why not a single woman would dance with him. His family broke the bank paying for him to attend an Ivy at a time when they were considered exclusively for the rich, and he is eternally grateful for it.
(12/09/21 9:44pm)
I feel the year 2021 has this “Groundhog Day” quality to me. If you described 2021 to me in 2019, I would be flabbergasted. But after living through 2020, 2021 feels like a mix of unexpected and unwanted repetitiveness. 2021 was another year of climate disasters and political dramas. 2021 was another year of COVID-19 variants that continue to threaten to upend our daily lives. Will 2022 be any different, with Americans even more concerned over the emerging Omicron variant than they were with Delta?
(11/23/21 2:52pm)
Nearly everyone at Penn has experienced that one course with the nonsensical lectures, the mountain of work, the impossible exams, or some ungodly combination of all three. We often experience this course early in our Penn experiences, and it can remake our entire academic trajectory. Yes, I’m talking about the infamous “weed-out” course.
(10/25/21 5:27am)
College is where you find yourself — where you explore, discover, and create. Why else would we be at Penn, if not for the myriad opportunities available here?
(09/26/21 11:00pm)
With unusual fervor, my friends and I scoured the perimeter of the Perelman Center, squishing bugs and exclaiming with joy when we landed a hit. To the untrained eye, we’re no better than the kids that burn ants with magnifying glasses. But these are not just any bugs. These are spotted lanternflies, or as Billy Penn calls them, “public enemy no. 1.”
(09/11/21 1:30pm)
At the start of every school year in New York City, our social studies teachers focused their lesson plans on 9/11. Each teacher had a different approach. Some described their own experiences and encouraged students to talk to their parents about the event. Others had us watch documentaries. In a geography class, my teacher started with a case study of how we link diseases to specific locations, tying back to the lingering health effects among 9/11 survivors.
(08/22/21 1:19am)
Eco-anxiety is a misnomer. Healthline defines it as “persistent worries about the future of Earth and the life it shelters,” but those who have eco-anxiety also report anger, depression, existential dread, grief, guilt, obsessive thoughts, and post-traumatic stress. Eco-anxiety? It’s more like eco-anxiety, mixed in with eco-depression, eco-OCD, and eco-PTSD.
