Instead of intuition, our choices are tempered and tampered by our fear of not succeeding. These metrics of success rarely arise from our own organic origins, and instead come from being enveloped in Penn’s homogenous zones, which are aroused only by the touch of traditional success.
Climate change is scary. 2014 was the hottest year on record. Scientific predictions of climate change impacts are being realized as we encounter more extreme storms, rising sea levels and devastating droughts.
NICK MONCY is a College junior from North Miami, Fla. His email address is nickmon@sas.upenn.edu.
To save our planet, we must focus on actions that have an impact, instead of symbolic actions that feel good but have little real-world benefit.
The University should work on promoting its Early Decision policies to lower-income communities. Penn should work with organizations like QuestBridge, which works with high-achieving, low-income students, and others that help underserved groups through the college admissions process.
SEAN MCGEEHAN is a College junior from Philadelphia. His email address is seanmcgeehan@verizon.net.
SEAN MCGEEHAN is a College junior from Philadelphia. His email address is seanmcgeehan@verizon.net.
Climate change is scary. 2014 was the hottest year on record. Scientific predictions of climate change impacts are being realized as we encounter more extreme storms, rising sea levels and devastating droughts.
NICK MONCY is a College junior from North Miami, Fla. His email address is nickmon@sas.upenn.edu.
Oil will be an integral part of the United States economy for decades to come. In 2013, US oil consumption increased by 400,000 barrels per day and the trend in 2014 followed suit.
It is a key tenet of our societal notions of justice and fairness that the judgement of a single individual, no matter how deeply we might trust that individual’s commitment to do what is right, is an insufficient basis upon which to decide that a person has committed a criminal act.
After six years of offering no substantial policy alternative to President Obama and his administration, the new Republican Congress has seemingly found its silver bullet: the passage of the Keystone XL pipeline by both houses. The pipeline will travel from the oil fields of Alberta to Nebraska, traversing about 1,100 miles with most of it being built in the United States.
Charles Darwin was hesitant, and rightly so. The implications of his crowning achievement, “On the Origin of Species,” would reach far and wide, setting off an upheaval in our conception of the natural world and our place within it.
ANNEKA DECARO is a College freshman from Austin, TX. Her email address is annekaxiv@gmail.com.
SHAWN KELLEY is an LPS junior from San Diego. His email address is skelley@sas.upenn.edu.
While many of our peer institutions also offer community space and more financial aid resources to international students, the request for an extended ISO, a proper transition to campus, is simple to satisfy.
Somewhere along the line, a lot of people have come to see science as an ideology we can opt in or out of rather than a process of logical enquiry.
We’re embarrassed to admit that we can’t handle our alcohol. No one wants to be the person who can’t go out. Nobody wants to ask for help.
Finding the "Sexual Violence Policy" is more difficult than a simple, messy Google search. Upon visiting the Provost's page — either directly or via the Office of Student Conduct’s page — for an explanation of the policy, students can be greeted with a cold "Error 404" page, with an ironically tragic subtitle: "Go Home."
SEAN MCGEEHAN is a College junior from Philadelphia. His email address is seanmcgeehan@verizon.net
NICK MONCY is a College junior from North Miami, Fla. His email address is nickmon@sas.upenn.edu.
Is the reality of technology that grim? The possibility of being imprisoned by robots seems to make for a good action film at best. As cliché as it sounds, I think the only thing we should fear being imprisoned by is our own close-mindedness.
There are self-evident problems with mandatory community service, namely that any work done not out of altruism but out of a desire to either complete a mandatory step toward the receipt of one’s own degree or a desire to make one’s transcript more appealing to potential evaluators is probably better described as “self-service by means of community-related work” than as true community service.
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