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By Ben Facey · Feb. 2, 2016

It might be surprising to hear, but I actually read The Daily Pennsylvanian, specifically the Opinion section. Since I mostly read when I am bored in class, I read the articles online.







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Israel is often misrepresented at Penn. Whether through the placement of black flags on College Green or the construction of an “apartheid wall” in front of Van Pelt Library, Israel is depicted as an abominable tyrant and the substantive facts of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are deemed insignificant.



Unless you read The Chronicle of Higher Education with the near-obsessive frequency that I do, you probably don’t know much about Mount St.


Right now on this campus, thousands of pre-med students shuffle to their massive Bio lectures, their on-campus research positions, their clinical volunteering jobs, their health related extracurriculars, or their activities unrelated to medicine but picked because medical schools prefer them. Ask any of them about it, and I expect they will all say the same thing: it sucks.



I remember my first night in the Quadrangle, lying on a hard and slightly stained mattress, surrounded by four intimidatingly blank walls, and listening to the heartbeat of an unfamiliar city outside my window.









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