Now, 16 years later, we find ourselves in the middle of Black History Month and UMOJA Week at a time where black unity and reflection are needed most. We not only find our nation in the grips of a raging debate in regards to systemic oppression and genocide of black bodies, but our campus community as well.
Race relations, economic disparities, the lingering threat of crime, having to deal with people of different backgrounds: it not easy being in West Philly.
ANNEKA DECARO is a College freshman from Austin, TX. Her email address is annekaxiv@gmail.com.
While loved ones try to make sense of the death, suicide victims and depressed individuals often cannot understand the effect on their family, or ultimately, feel that their loved ones would be better off.
SAM SHERMAN is a College junior from Marblehead, Mass. His email is samsherman6@sas.upenn.edu
Fraternities are not guilt-free of partaking in the culture of excessive drinking and sexual misconduct, but we cannot expect to lay sanctions on them alone and consider the issue resolved. It is all too easy to lay the blame on the highly visible Greek societies that seem to dominate the social and party scene, but they are only part of the problem, not the problem itself.
Fraternities are not guilt-free of partaking in the culture of excessive drinking and sexual misconduct, but we cannot expect to lay sanctions on them alone and consider the issue resolved. It is all too easy to lay the blame on the highly visible Greek societies that seem to dominate the social and party scene, but they are only part of the problem, not the problem itself.
Race relations, economic disparities, the lingering threat of crime, having to deal with people of different backgrounds: it not easy being in West Philly.
ANNEKA DECARO is a College freshman from Austin, TX. Her email address is annekaxiv@gmail.com.
ANNEKA DECARO is a College freshman from Austin, TX. Her email address is annekaxiv@gmail.com.
Before we can even look at paying PILOTs as a yes-or-no issue, there are many questions that need to be answered. From the effectiveness of Penn’s community programming to the City’s allocation of PILOT funds, these concerns need to be addressed as part of the much-needed conversations regarding the status of public education in Philadelphia and the University’s relationship with the community.
Political extremism isn’t news to anyone. The shocking part, at least for me, comes when those statistics translate into cultural consequences.
SEAN MCGEEHAN is a College junior from Philadelphia. His email address is seanmcgeehan@verizon.net
Solving police prejudice means somehow eliminating the unconscious biases of those we trust with exercising the state’s monopoly on legitimate use of violence.
Further, it is not clear that an inability to pay tuition is an issue for potential community college students. Comprehensive subsidies exist already. What less advantaged students cannot pay for — namely necessary non-tuition expenses — is not covered.
In order to once again lead the world in education, the US must provide students with the higher education that can and will meet the demands of the growing and changing global economy.
NICK MONCY is a College junior from North Miami, Fla. His email is nickmon@sas.upenn.edu.
We must realize that leaders of civil rights movements are as human as we are — that we are as capable of speaking out, resisting unlawful practices and leading movements as they were and, more importantly, that they will eventually succumb to the limitations of human life and no longer be able to march alongside future generations.
As students, we are not only expected to succeed, but we are in a sense not even allowed to not succeed. Academically, professionally and socially we are surrounded by an overabundance of paths to reach “success.”
SAM SHERMAN is a College junior from Marblehead, Mass. His email is samsherman6@sas.upenn.edu.
Firstly, asking ourselves questions about free speech and its limitations as a response to the attacks lets in the idea that there could be a legitimate justification for retaliating against someone’s expression with brutality. I don’t think I’m alone in believing that this idea is ridiculous.
HANNAH ROSENFELD is a College sophomore from Tokyo.
While it is generally accepted that current society is patriarchal, few among those who identify themselves as feminist acknowledge that, for example, the right for a male to show weakness and sensitivity has not yet been established — which has greater consequence than simply preventing him from being able to cry.
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