Let’s demand more effective policy change from the administration — Penn can combat sexual assault without treating its students like minors.
Guest Column by Rabbi Josh Bolton | 10 Passover lessons for Jews and non-Jews alike
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Rabbi Josh Bolton
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March 28, 2018
The Pesach story is essential to an understanding of Jewish history and destiny, but some of its lessons would seem to be significant for anyone living through this frantic, globalized, postmodern moment.
SARAH KHAN is a College freshman from Lynn Haven, Fla.
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Spencer Swanson
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April 1, 2018
The controversies surrounding Donald Trump as a shady businessman, uncouth politician, groping womanizer, and increasingly failed president should be motivation enough for the University to take a bold stand.
Christianity for me was not the end to the search for meaning, but rather, something that pointed me to where I should search.
Carlos Arias Vivas | What Penn’s drag performers taught me about self-exploration
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Carlos Arias Vivas
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March 29, 2018
The night at the drag show showed me a new level of confidence I know I can adapt in my daily life.
Carlos Arias Vivas | What Penn’s drag performers taught me about self-exploration
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Carlos Arias Vivas
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March 29, 2018
The night at the drag show showed me a new level of confidence I know I can adapt in my daily life.
Guest Column by Rabbi Josh Bolton | 10 Passover lessons for Jews and non-Jews alike
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Rabbi Josh Bolton
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March 28, 2018
The Pesach story is essential to an understanding of Jewish history and destiny, but some of its lessons would seem to be significant for anyone living through this frantic, globalized, postmodern moment.
SARAH KHAN is a College freshman from Lynn Haven, Fla.
Letter to the Editor from Brooklyn College professor Robert Cherry | Amy Wax's claim is well founded
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Robert Cherry
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March 27, 2018
Given that Dean Ruger has made claims about the grades of UPenn black students, he should make public the data that he submitted to the Law School Admissions Council.
Rebecca Alifimoff | Why study abroad shouldn’t count in your GPA
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Rebecca Alifimoff
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March 27, 2018
Penn students should be trusted to make the most of their study abroad experiences, both academically and personally, without being limited by the narrow metric of the GPA.
Underneath the perfect facade of the superstar student, there are always doubts, and even regrets, about the choices they have made. There are infinite paths we can all go.
Guest Column by Brown U. prof Glenn Loury | Reflections on my interview with Amy Wax
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Glenn Loury
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March 27, 2018
I believe that Dean Ruger's actions against Amy Wax at Penn Law — responding to public pressure no less — were reprehensible, and deserve to be condemned.
It’s time for Asian Americans to stop talking about their struggles in the “API community,” without actually knowing anything about the PI community.
VERONICA FENTON is a College freshman from Penn Valley, Pa.
Kristen Yeh | That one friend with the perfect March Madness bracket
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Kristen Yeh
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March 25, 2018
KRISTEN YEH is a College freshman from West Covina, Calif.
SARAH KHAN is a College freshman from Lynn Haven, Fla.
Penn might not be “the best” school in the Ivy League, but let me pose an important question: why does it matter? And why does it hurt our egos so much? Four years go by too quickly to walk around with chips on our shoulders.
Wax’s general and anecdotal observations may be distasteful and impolitic, but equating them with a breach of privacy to further “her scholarly ends,” as Ruger puts it, seems dishonest.
Walking down Locust between the snarties connected me with multiple groups I’d otherwise have no business associating with, and connected me to my peers in a way that could only come about here and now.
Letter from outgoing CAPS Director Bill Alexander | Look ahead to where you want to be
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Bill Alexander
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March 21, 2018
Rather than contribute to the volumes of verbiage that already take up so much space, and having listened to you for so many years, I thought I would just tell a story.
CASSANDRA JOBMAN is a College freshman from Garland, Texas.
I feel as if there is something wrong with me, especially because everyone around me seems to be moving on. And for the first time in my life, I don’t know what’s going to happen.
