As the leaders of Penn’s largest political organization, the Government & Politics Association, we decided not to co-sponsor the March for Immigrants held to condemn President Trump’s recent string of executive orders.
BRAD HONG is a College freshman from Morristown, N.J.
Commencement should, in our view, aim to broaden the horizons of departing students one last time – to be one last lesson before graduates leave the academic sphere.
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James Fisher | From the bottom of the barrel to Penn: Already at a disadvantage
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James Fisher
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Feb. 8, 2017
The minute I stepped out of my uncle’s car and arrived at Harrison College House, I should have known that my life would change forever.
James Fisher | From the bottom of the barrel to Penn: Already at a disadvantage
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James Fisher
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Feb. 8, 2017
The minute I stepped out of my uncle’s car and arrived at Harrison College House, I should have known that my life would change forever.
BRAD HONG is a College freshman from Morristown, N.J.
Commencement should, in our view, aim to broaden the horizons of departing students one last time – to be one last lesson before graduates leave the academic sphere.
Allyship is not found in those who wear a safety pin, but in those who dedicate their efforts towards diminishing the inequities that cause protests in the first place.
BRYN FRIEDENBERG is a College junior from Kirtland, Ohio.
On Monday, 97 Companies issued a joint statement going against the “Muslim Ban” executive order.
Michael Palamountain | An appreciation of labor and a critique of leisure
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Michael Palamountain
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Feb. 6, 2017
Despite the title, this article will not serve as some sort of rallying cry to raise the minimum wage nor will it attempt to explain the complicated nature of universal basic income.
CLAUDIA LI is a College junior from Santa Clara, Calif.
One week after his inauguration, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order indefinitely halting the resettlement of Syrian refugees and temporarily banning people from seven Muslim-majority nations from traveling into the United States.
“We cannot buy our security, our freedom from the threat of the bomb by committing an immorality so great as saying to a billion human beings now enslaved behind the Iron Curtain: give up your dreams of freedom, because to save our own skins, we're willing to make a deal with your slave masters.” – Ronald Reagan, 1964 Today, we face a different enemy, with different victims, and a different immorality.
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Editorial | Don't let the message of the marches fade away
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The Daily Pennsylvanian
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Feb. 2, 2017
We commend the participants of these marches, but we implore students to use these protests as an opportunity to revisit issues on our own campus, to channel this level of intensity and energy into tangible fixes within our own community.
Contrary to what most people told me before leaving, my first experience studying abroad in England was not a pleasant one.
BEN CLAAR is a College sophomore from Scarsdale, N.Y.
During his campaign, Trump made a statement that all Muslims should be banned from entering the U.S.
You could smell the urgency in the air on Sunday, as scores of Penn students suspended their studies and sped to Philadelphia’s International Airport. None of these students would be boarding flights; they were going to register their protest to President Donald Trump’s Executive Order, penned to prohibit entry to the United States by citizens of seven Muslim-majority nations: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Yemen and Somalia. The order was decidedly un-American. Prohibiting the entry of hundreds of millions of people around the world, based solely on their national origin betrays our history as a nation of immigrants.
In the era of rampant “fake news” and “alternative facts,” now more than ever we have a moral obligation to seek truth to inform our dissent.
