Hannah Rosenfeld is a College sophomore from Tokyo.
It’s easy to understand how pre-medical students can constantly feel overwhelmed by a sense of competition here at Penn.
We have a responsibility to take control of our futures, and that means voting for what we believe in. To vote, or not to vote, that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to vote with ignorance or not to vote at all. This isn’t quite the dilemma that Hamlet had in mind, but as of this past Tuesday, it seems slightly more relevant.
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Nov. 9, 2014
Conservative behavior might have yielded an advantage in more primitive times, but today, it lends itself too easily to xenophobia, negotiation through brute force and the persecution of religious minorities.
Of course, then she would have also seen that students here spend their time on all sorts of projects and groups that have very little to do with employment prospects and that lots of people don’t think of their fraternities and sororities solely as “a gateway to the gilded Goldman life,” and that for every hard-partying social climber is some schlub in a library — and that sometimes those are even the same person. In other words, she would have found out that Penn is filled with human beings.
On behalf of the dedicated general body members and executive board of PSFA, we would like to clarify our club’s overall mission to the community at Penn and in greater Philadelphia.
On behalf of the dedicated general body members and executive board of PSFA, we would like to clarify our club’s overall mission to the community at Penn and in greater Philadelphia.
It’s easy to understand how pre-medical students can constantly feel overwhelmed by a sense of competition here at Penn.
We have a responsibility to take control of our futures, and that means voting for what we believe in. To vote, or not to vote, that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to vote with ignorance or not to vote at all. This isn’t quite the dilemma that Hamlet had in mind, but as of this past Tuesday, it seems slightly more relevant.
Last week I had an appointment with a new psychiatrist, which I had made the first week of the semester back in August.
Queer and gendered narratives are stripped from the black narrative, resulting in a solely heteronormative, male, black narrative, which effectively serves as an act of erasure. We are expected to drop our identities — identities that interact in ways that open us up to violence that is largely ignored. We are expected to silence our criticisms about our treatment in order to focus our attentions on the struggles of black men.
There is probably no single course on-campus that is as profoundly hated as the writing seminar. Organic chemistry plagues the pre-med, math is feared by many, BEPP is the bane of the Wharton freshman, but the writing seminar is the common enemy of all.
Nick Moncy is a College junior from North Miami, Fla. His email address is nickmon@sas.upenn.edu.
Although I subscribe to the belief that, in our advanced society, it’s wrong to kill animals for food, I understand that we live in a world where there are enough starving people that moral outrage on behalf of the exploited honey bee seems a little misplaced, and where the objectification of women causes enough damage that PETA’s “I’d rather go naked than wear fur” campaign makes me worry more about the state of women in our society than the state of cattle.
Luckily, however, voters need not merely vote against the past four years. They can go to the polls and vote for the future. Tom Wolf, whom President Bill Clinton called “the best candidate for governor in America,” offers the chance for a new, progressive direction for Pennsylvania.
Hannah Rosenfeld is a College sophomore from Tokyo, Japan.
However, there is one thing that tends to separate athletics from other extracurriculars: risk of serious injury. I can think of few other extracurriculars where there is a real possibility of suffering injuries such as concussions, torn ligaments and broken bones, including the spine.
I don’t believe in taking this life for granted. Obsessing over what happens after death is often a disguise for obsessing over death itself, and fearing the inevitable casts a bitter and unnecessary shadow over the time we still have. Others might feel that their time on earth is spoiled by its lack of permanence; I think that makes it all the more precious.
Sam Sherman is a College junior from Marblehead, Mass. His email address is samsherman6@gmail.com.
We must move beyond calling the act of robbing a store or taking someone’s money “violent.” We must also use this term to refer to Penn’s role in the gentrification of West Philadelphia through the expansion of our university, which forces families out of their homes and perpetuates intergenerational poverty. Poverty combines with systematic racism, leading people to commit these crimes of survival.
But even without Photoshop, the same ideals continue to inform their image selection. America consistently sees beauty through a lens that has nothing to do with cameras — one that excludes people of varying classes, genders, sexualities and races. Models’ dropping BMIs are indications of a much larger societal desire to confine beauty. Photography and other forms of media cannot spontaneously create cultural views; they are shaped by context and represent the society that they are created in.
I am writing in response to the editorial of 10/27. We appreciate the concerns raised in this editorial about the publication of reports by the Office of Student Conduct (OSC). We will soon announce the appointment of a new Director of OSC, whose first priority will be to address the data tracking and related issues that have delayed these reports in the past.
Autism Speaks has no interest in improving the lives of autistic people. It is dedicated entirely to improving the lives of those without autism, who, it holds, are unfairly burdened by having to deal with people whose sensory and social experiences differ dramatically from their own, to the point where cold-blooded murder is an understandable, sympathetic response. Autism Speaks seeks not to change the future for autistic people, but to end it.
