As President Biden takes office, he arrives with a full plate of national crises and a unified government. Here are five things Penn Dem's thinks he should focus on.
Agatha Advincula | Finding hope and strength at Penn in the new year
By
Agatha Advincula
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Dec. 10, 2020
Within the confines of a Zoom call, Penn’s community still continues to thrive. Keeping the fighter’s mindset of 2020 will help us prepare for another year of unknowns.
Penn's Year of Civic Engagement has largely failed to make a major impact in encouraging civic engagement across the University, even as the community demands activism.
The Latest
By
Urooba Abid
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Jan. 19, 2021
Penn's antiquated tenure policies have protected professors from blatant acts of hate. It is time for them to be revised for the modern age.
Caroline Magdolen | Saving American Democracy Starts With 147 Republicans
By
Caroline Magdolen
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Jan. 9, 2021
The capitol insurrection highlighted a dangerous desire from some Republicans for political power at all costs. Halting this dangerous slide begins with the GOP taking action.
Matthew Liu | American opposition to COVID-19 lockdowns is history repeating itself
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Matthew Liu
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Dec. 10, 2020
Americans' resistance to the lockdown orders that marked the early fight against COVID-19 take after a growing historical narrative of the US' growing distrust of science.
Matthew Liu | American opposition to COVID-19 lockdowns is history repeating itself
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Matthew Liu
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Dec. 10, 2020
Americans' resistance to the lockdown orders that marked the early fight against COVID-19 take after a growing historical narrative of the US' growing distrust of science.
Agatha Advincula | Finding hope and strength at Penn in the new year
By
Agatha Advincula
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Dec. 10, 2020
Within the confines of a Zoom call, Penn’s community still continues to thrive. Keeping the fighter’s mindset of 2020 will help us prepare for another year of unknowns.
Penn's Year of Civic Engagement has largely failed to make a major impact in encouraging civic engagement across the University, even as the community demands activism.
After months of last-minute decision making, Penn's international students are left bearing the brunt of the cost of a virtual semester, with potentially long-term consequences.
Editorial | Don't pack the Penn scene when you study abroad
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The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board
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Aug. 28, 2019
While study abroad offers students a unique opportunity to live in new parts of the world, students who are leaving soon for unfamiliar places should make sure that they take advantage of the chance to engage with the people that live in these countries, rather than only sticking with fellow Penn students.
Letter to the Editor | Response to Duke research fraud allegations
By
Martin J. Weinstein
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April 19, 2019
On behalf of my client, Dr. Monica Kraft, I am writing in response to the article published by The Daily Pennsylvanian entitled “Duke to pay $112.5 million in response to research fraud allegations.”
Guest Column by William Snow | Penn students must rethink the college-to-consulting pipeline
By
William Snow
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Sept. 7, 2018
Why are juniors and seniors spending 90 percent of their free time casing and networking and attending info sessions? Why aren’t we contemplating what we really want out of life, and how we can achieve it?
Letter to the Editor | Response to Rebecca Alifimoff’s column ‘Why chill is overrated’
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Anders Zhou
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July 26, 2018
Here’s my take on “chill.” At Penn, this whole "deadening yourself" with placid smiles and mildly network-y “hahas” is done for me. “Chill” is a ballooning umbrella word that just perpetuates toxic bro activity and pressures people to deflate and compress their bodies into little boxes of compliance. I’m over it, and I’ll take a good bet that most minority communities are over it, too.
Guest Column by Abhi Hendi | Friends, Quakers, Countrymen, lend me your ears
By
Abhi Hendi
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Aug. 21, 2017
My parents took a risk. Two freshly minted Ph.D.'s, raised in poverty, leaving their home country, coming to America.
Guest Column by five Penn Law professors | Notions of 'bourgeois' cultural superiority are based on bad history
By
Sophia Z. Lee
, Serena Mayeri
, Dorothy E. Roberts
, Sarah Barringer Gordon
and Tobias Barrington Wolff
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Aug. 20, 2017
In the recent opinion article “Paying the price for breakdown of the country's bourgeois culture,” published in the Philadelphia Inquirer, law professors Amy Wax and Larry Alexander lament the loss of the “bourgeois cultural hegemony” of the 1950s.
Guest Column by Dean of Penn Law School Ted Ruger | On Charlottesville, free speech and diversity
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Ted Ruger
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Aug. 14, 2017
As a community and as individuals we are shocked and saddened by the deadly, violent events in Charlottesville yesterday, and we grieve for the victims and their families.
“You have two months left to live.” The doctor delivered the words with a steel, monotone voice without looking up from his computer.
CLAUDIA LI is a College junior from Santa Clara, Calif.
Juan Sebastián Pinto | Lessons from an African American colony in the Great Plains
By
Juan Sebastián Pinto
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July 31, 2017
Nearly all the town's buildings had been razed for scrap wood, and those that remained standing had either caved-in, or seemed to be held up by the dead trees rising besides them.
ISABEL KIM is a College senior from Warren, N.J., studying English and Fine Arts.
After the recent atrocities in Westminster, Manchester, and London, the politically correct in the United Kingdom and the world are yet again fully engaged in assiduously ignoring the threat we all face. The facts are as plain as they are uncomfortable — the world is currently living through an unprecedented threat, a modern enemy fighting for an archaic, theocratic vision that president George W.
