That said, it’s not all on the creators of the game. Altogether, students — both those who detest the game and those who find it fun — have spent hours on the site.
If even a 40-plus-year-old Penn tradition can’t entice students to show some Penn pride, it begs the question of why Penn Athletics is so adamant about charging students to see basketball games.
I never identified myself as a southerner — just someone who lived in the South.
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Oct. 20, 2013
For some reason, we are conditioned to praise those who argue that an issue is too complex to take a position.
Wharton alums have set several world records during my time here. In addition to the Forbes’ net-worth list, our alums also top the list of largest frauds.
Before, I preferred to go down the route of not acknowledging death.
Before, I preferred to go down the route of not acknowledging death.
If even a 40-plus-year-old Penn tradition can’t entice students to show some Penn pride, it begs the question of why Penn Athletics is so adamant about charging students to see basketball games.
I never identified myself as a southerner — just someone who lived in the South.
The number of female speakers addressing Wharton’s students each year is strikingly limited.
Gangsta rap has evolved into a social culture that glamorizes violence and is now a dominant form of hip-hop.
We can ensure that students who want to work can do so by fixing the existing work-study system, rather than adding to it.
Lately, I’ve come to think that one of the most valuable things you can give someone is your undivided attention.
What Israelis and Palestinians have historically had to face and continue to face is not something understood from “there,” whether that be your living room, your lecture hall or a news studio.
There is only correlation between the study of music and the traits that lead to success.
The government shutdown isn’t about shutting down to save money — it’s about making your life difficult to prove a point.
We think both the local government and Penn should take steps to make 38th and Spruce safer.
It’s human nature to veer towards those like you and break the ice through common ground. But in these robotic, rehearsed social interactions, we’re more reaffirming our own identities.
The answers to the Israel-Palestine conflict are more an amalgamation of its myriad narratives than any one sacred truth.
Some of my Palestinian friends and peers have applied multiple times for a permit to travel to Jerusalem, only to have Israel deny them multiple times.
We’d like to see not only big names at these events, but people whose lives have been defined more by their work on the ground than by what they did before giving back.
This past weekend I was at a bar celebrating a friend from high school’s birthday and was having a great time until one of my guy friends slapped my butt.
I came to Penn aspiring to be just that: an academic, entrepreneur or travel writer. I now find myself in consulting interviews, reciting how my education and internship experience in journalism have prepared me for business strategy.
