If a person has not flung open the window of a campus building to angrily yell “YOU HATE ME!” at you, while you are still reeling from invitations to scheduled public lynchings of African American freshmen and marching peacefully to raise awareness, then welcome to the reality of race relations in the era of 45!
GROUP THINK is the DP’s round table section, where we throw a question at the columnists and see what answers stick.
Penn can no longer claim to be doing all it can to be assembling the highest-quality class possible each year while drawing well more than half of its admittees from less than a sixth of the applicants. It is time to do away with Early Decision.
I was struck by something Alec Baldwin said near the end of his talk at Penn on Friday. When asked what advice he would give to college students, Baldwin immediately replied that we ought to travel, to explore the world when we are single, young and free.
Every one of us, no matter our political views, has a campus issue that we’re passionate about.
Like thousands of other students, I was added to the ‘Official Unofficial Penn Squirrel Catching Club” group on Facebook recently, and my news feed has since been flooded with memes about all things Penn.
Like thousands of other students, I was added to the ‘Official Unofficial Penn Squirrel Catching Club” group on Facebook recently, and my news feed has since been flooded with memes about all things Penn.
GROUP THINK is the DP’s round table section, where we throw a question at the columnists and see what answers stick.
Penn can no longer claim to be doing all it can to be assembling the highest-quality class possible each year while drawing well more than half of its admittees from less than a sixth of the applicants. It is time to do away with Early Decision.
BEN CLAAR is a College sophomore from Scarsdale, N.Y.
I remember the spring of my senior year of high school visiting Makuu Black Cultural Center during Quaker days.
In my Africana Studies class, we talk a lot about perspective: how things that seem acceptable or normal to a society at a given point in history can often seem incomprehensible to that same society several generations later.
Mental health. Two words every Penn student has heard before they set foot on Locust walk. We all know just how prevalent conversations about mental health have become and its relation to tragedy, campus culture and administration.
Next academic year, we will take another leap toward improving our journalism and reaching our readers.
The University of Pennsylvania, claiming to value collaboration and logic, acted extremely hypocritically throughout the negotiations during the Fossil Free Penn sit-in.
BRAD HONG is a College freshman from Morristown, N.J.
Last week the winners of the President's Engagement Prize were announced. I scrolled past the subject line in my inbox and clicked delete.
I spent a long time wondering what topic I should write on today. I found it very difficult to pick a stance on anything.
BRYN FRIEDENBERG is a College junior from Kirtland, Ohio.
CLAUDIA LI is a College junior from Santa Clara, Calif.
Last week, more than two thousand applicants around the world received the news that they have been accepted for enrollment at the University of Pennsylvania.
This past weekend, around 40 Penn students joined nearly 4000 campus activists from across the country at the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) annual Policy Conference in Washington, D.C.
There is a lot of hot debate between the political left and right about social justice issues, and a particularly concentrated debate in higher education institutions.
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