In last Tuesday’s Toe the Line, Carter Skeel argued that Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act is a reasonable law.
Thinking about cultural appropriation as it affects my life brings up more questions than I expected. It is a complex topic because of the way it has been handled and regarded over time, and how it has impacted the lives of marginalized minority communities.
I can’t help but think that the language of safety and unsafety just isn’t the right terminology for this conversation.
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Dani Blum
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April 22, 2015
Over the past few days, I’ve tried to explain Fling to my friends back home. “It’s a carnival,” I tried to tell them. “It’s a few days to just relax.” In our work-hard, play-hard environment, Fling means the chance to take a break from Penn, but also to epitomize our dear University.
SAM SHERMAN is a College junior from Marblehead, Mass. His email address is samsherman6@sas.upenn.edu.
The right to vote is sacrosanct in the United States, and the attack on voting rights is a fundamental threat to American democracy.
The right to vote is sacrosanct in the United States, and the attack on voting rights is a fundamental threat to American democracy.
Thinking about cultural appropriation as it affects my life brings up more questions than I expected. It is a complex topic because of the way it has been handled and regarded over time, and how it has impacted the lives of marginalized minority communities.
I can’t help but think that the language of safety and unsafety just isn’t the right terminology for this conversation.
NICK MONCY is a College junior from North Miami, Fla. His email address is nickmon@sas.upenn.edu.
Those who are quick to declare that “all lives matter” cannot deny the verity of the fact that our nation consistently dehumanizes our lives.
In a piece in The New Republic, Bryce Covert anticipates that interim CEO of Reddit Ellen Pao’s judicially unsuccessful gender discrimination lawsuit — waged against her former employer Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers — may still constitute an opportunity to take a step forward in mitigating gender discrimination in the United States.
Africa is a diverse continent, with a great number of political, economic and cultural strides being taken, in line with the “Africa rising” narrative.
Travel doesn’t necessarily broaden the mind. It’s possible to live in another country for a few months without learning much of anything. A group of American friends and a Eurotrip mentality is all it takes to extend the “Penn bubble” to a different continent.
ANNEKA DECARO is a College freshman from Austin. Her email address is annekaxiv@gmail.com.
NICK MONCY is a College junior from North Miami, Fla. His email address is nickmoncy@sas.upenn.edu.
As former leaders of the College Republicans here at Penn, we would like to express our utter dismay at the position that the recent College Republicans article took on the issue of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
The high price of college sucks the meaning out of college itself. When we choose our fields of study based on the potential outcomes, we lose the central purpose of selecting a major at all: to narrow down a field we’re truly interested in, and then to push for excellence in that area.
SAM SHERMAN is a College junior from Marblehead, Mass. His email is samsherman6@gmail.com.
Toe the Line: College Republicans | Personal freedoms, public conciliations and discrimination
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Carter Skeel
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April 14, 2015
What those who decry —(with religious zeal, I might add —) Indiana’s RFRA seem to ignore is that these issues involve a balancing of rights.
Toe the Line: Penn Democrats | Personal freedoms, public conciliations and discrimination
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Allison Schwartz
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April 14, 2015
When the federal government passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in 1993, the LGBT rights movement had hardly begun.
In the age of instant mass media and ever-expanding tort liability, for Penn to adopt a “live and let live” approach to students’ risky behavior just isn’t a rational choice. To avoid the monetary losses which might result from parental lawsuits or bad press born of Greek antics, it is simply in Penn’s best interests as an institution not to be tolerant of violations of policies it couldn’t really change if it wanted to.
Here at Penn, it’s all too easy to get caught up in our immediate to-do list. In 2016, our campus will be caught up in our foremost national duty: electing the 45th President of the United States.
