Tracy Morgan shouldn’t have apologized for his offensive joke. Comedians only feed the audience what they want to hear — an exploration of the darkest machinations of the human mind.

Penn needs a center for Tea Partiers and Flashers alike, a la the LGBT Center.

A tactic that has been used by the media and many elements of the Left when handling the Tea Party is to portray it as a group of anti-intellectuals who are unsophisticated.

The Palestinian strategy for statehood has flipped in a matter of eight years. The strategy now seems to follow a new script: statehood first, negotiations later.

Netflix jumped the gun by convincing millions of its subscribers to choose between price and quality.

Although Penn is making significant strides, the fact that in 2011 our campus still emphasizes how “gay-friendly” it is seems very redundant and counterproductive to the entire movement.

Upon stepping into Penn Park, it becomes clear that the space is dedicated to serve a purpose — to provide a space for organized games, and not for simple lounging. It’s not so much a park as a collection of fields.

Like a faint electric buzz, excitement about new ways to use technology is permeating throughout campus. As your tech columnist, I’ll be doing my best to make you aware of some of the cooler stuff going on.

I’ll tell you why we really get fat. You might not like it. You probably won’t believe me either. But after reading some outstanding work by science writer Gary Taubes, I’m a die-hard believer.

At an institution that constantly emphasizes the importance of building relationships with professional firms like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley via on-campus recruiting, I wonder if students increasingly overlook the value of building relationships with everyday people — people who play integral roles in our community.

In recent years, however, the term “flash mob” has acquired a new meaning. Philadelphia’s non-violent high-school and college-aged residents need to reclaim the flash mob.

While politics often brings out the worst in people, it can occasionally bring out the very best.

Penn should sweat the small stuff. Minor issues affect student happiness and create inefficiencies for the University.

The superficial health-consciousness is troublesome. Many products benefit the companies that make them more than the consumers that buy them.

Bryn Mawr College professor Clark McCauley writes that we were unable to predict how far our overreaction to 9/11 would go.

Today’s average college student was between the ages of eight and 11 on Sept. 11, 2001. We were old enough to know there was a problem, to feel that something had been lost, to watch the events unfold on the news.

Columnist Brian Goldman argues that the term ‘9/11 generation,’ invoked by the national press, is a bit misleading and even confining.