As ready as high-school seniors may feel for college, taking a year off can ease the transition and help narrow interests.
Alicia Puglionesi is an College junior from Haverton, Pa. Her e-mail address is puglionesi@dailypennsylvanian.com.
Kal Penn's celebrity status should not be a reason to hire him to teach.
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Placing a liquor store across the street from the mosque will not improve the area.
Daily Digit
March 28, 2007
3Years engineers, geologists and archeologists expect it will take to find the Ithaca of Homer's Odyssey. Source: The Associated Press
Penn has done a good job making sure employees have homes in the area; these programs should be expanded to the community at large.
Penn has done a good job making sure employees have homes in the area; these programs should be expanded to the community at large.
Alicia Puglionesi is an College junior from Haverton, Pa. Her e-mail address is puglionesi@dailypennsylvanian.com.
Kal Penn's celebrity status should not be a reason to hire him to teach.
Scheduling Spring Fling and Penn Previews for the same weekend is a disaster waiting to happen.
Daily Digit
March 27, 2007
12Days that 1,400 faculty and staff members of Community College of Philadelphia were on strike.Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer
Amira Fawcett is an Engineering sophomore from Houston, TX. Her e-mail address is fawcett@dailypennsylvanian.com.
For sexually active students, the arrival of spring is the perfect excuse to get tested for sexually transmitted diseases.
A full investigation is needed before the University is accused of discrimination.
Daniel Schwartz is a College freshman from Decatur, Ga. His e-mail address is schwarm@sas.upenn.edu.
Although 18 and 21 bring a host of new experiences, turning 20 is the true, traumatic entry point into adulthood for many students.
Daily Digit
March 26, 2007
$372,000Price paid for the skull of a large, carnivorous dinosaur and the tusk of a mammoth from the Ice Age. Source: The New York Times
Disney's introduction of an African American princess can only go so far in educating children about race.
Complaining to friends and family is a good way to blow off steam, but it shouldn't get in the way of real communication.
Alternative viewpoints To the Editor: It's not surprising that when Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz spoke at Annenberg, University of Pennsylvania on March 14, he seized his opportunity to grandstand in polemics against renowned political scientist Norman Finkelstein.
For students and professors struggling with e-mail etiquette, keeping it formal is the safest choice.
Curriculum facts To the Editor: I write to correct serious misrepresentations in a column on the College's new requirements ("Bottom of the Course Barrel," DP, 3/16/07). I did not characterize the "distributional" courses, which were eliminated from the new curriculum, as being more difficult than the ones remaining.
Abdi Farah is a College sophomore from Owings Mills, Md. His e-mail address is abdm@sas.upenn.edu.
