Ernest Owens | Debunking 40 acres and a month

By Ernest Owens · Feb. 9, 2012

Who thought it was reasonable to dedicate the shortest month of the year to celebrating the history of blacks?

Your Voice | Our Cambodian neighbors

By Amanda Bergson-Shilcock · Feb. 9, 2012

Not far from campus are several neighborhoods that are home to the survivors of the horrific Cambodian genocide.

BDS is a tool that challenges racial inequality, dispossession, displacement and genocidal violence.

Sara Brenes-Akerman | Confessions of a cheater

By Sara Brenes-Akerman · Feb. 8, 2012

I’ve been immensely happy during our time together. This American Life is always there for me, offering reliably stunning narratives as a symbol of its love.

Sally Engelhart | Is brown fat the secret to weight loss?

By Sally Engelhart · Feb. 8, 2012

People trying to lose weight often think that body fat is the enemy. But get this: there’s one type of fat — brown fat — that might hold the key to being thin.

Robert Hsu | Why it's the 99.9%, not the 99%

By Robert Hsu · Feb. 7, 2012

Humans come in different shapes, sizes and colors, but any two share 99.9% of their DNA. Somehow, we still tend to see ourselves as separate living entities from other people.

Samantha Sharf | 'LOVE' beyond the statue

By Samantha Sharf · Feb. 7, 2012

With Valentine’s Day less than a week away, campus is littered with references to the L-word. Just as confused about the expression as I was a decade ago, I decided to take a closer look at the way the word love figures into typical Penn life.

Kyle Henson | Letting the college houses grow up

By Kyle Henson · Feb. 7, 2012

While Penn claims on its housing website that college houses “stand at the center of the Penn undergraduate experience … to form shared communities,” the system fundamentally fails to achieve this mission due to a lack of political and financial commitment from the administration.

Hayley Brooks & Ali Kokot | Pondering the pajama drama

By Hayley Brooks and Ali Kokot · Feb. 7, 2012

While most mothers forbade us from leaving our homes in pajamas during our tweenage years, in college there is no fashion police.

Ian Lustick | Who benefited?

By Ian Lustick · Feb. 7, 2012

Now that the brouhaha surrounding the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions conference held at Penn this weekend is passing into memory, we can answer that question. Who benefited from the conference? Complete BDS coverage

Alyssa Hansen | Mitt Romney takes on medical marijuana

By Alyssa Hansen · Feb. 6, 2012

Presidential GOP candidate Mitt Romney has explicitly expressed his dissension around medicinal marijuana in his campaign despite its numerous benefits.

Rachel del Valle | Giving in to the game

By Rachel del Valle · Feb. 6, 2012

The Super Bowl is the cultural equivalent to a movie like Avatar — it’s not about the quality of the content — it’s about the spectacle, the event.

Editorial | Behind the rhetoric

By The Daily Pennsylvanian · Feb. 6, 2012

Penn BDS can be thanked for reinvigorated debates about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict among students, but the quality of these debates — which took place in closed circles — remains to be questioned.

Omar Barghouti | We — the global 99% — shall overcome!

By Omar Barghouti · Feb. 3, 2012

The 1 percent are united, and so must we, the global 99 percent. Our aspirations overlap, our struggles converge. Unity is now a necessity, not a nicety.

Letter from the Editor | A forum for free speech

By Dana Tom · Feb. 3, 2012

While we do not necessarily agree with or endorse the views we publish in guest columns and letters to the editor, we think it’s important for our content to reflect the diversity of views on this campus.

Alice Lee | Got a passion? Pursue it. Relentlessly.

By Alice Lee · Feb. 3, 2012

If you know you won’t be passionate about a job in finance or consulting but plan on joining the 52 percent of Penn graduates who go into these fields anyway, this column is also for you.

Ernest Owens | An inconvenient proposal

By Ernest Owens · Feb. 2, 2012

When you elected us, you had faith that we would represent you. That conviction is now a little hazy.