Editorial | Penn football has one shot to defeat Princeton. Students must show up.

By The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board · Nov. 20, 2019

Even more important than its own season, Penn football has a chance to spoil rival Princeton's year, and will need the support of Penn students to do it. 

Sarah Khan | Penn Law name change timeline

By Sarah Khan · Nov. 20, 2019

SARAH KHAN is a College sophomore from Lynn Haven, Fla.

Surayya Walters | Stop ignoring tokenism at Penn

By Surayya Walters · Nov. 20, 2019

In the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘’we must learn to live together as brothers or we will perish together as fools.'' We must be the change we seek.

Alfredo Praticò | From Kendra Brooks to Carey Law, student voices can effect change

By Alfredo Praticò · Nov. 20, 2019

Our voices made an impact. We saw the specific issues we wanted changed, we came together, we worked hard, and the results we wanted came through.

Alfredo Praticò | Penn must give us more breaks

By Alfredo Praticò · Nov. 19, 2019

As Penn makes deliberate efforts to increase student wellness at Penn, our academic calendar has to be leveraged as a tool to decrease the negative effects our campus culture has on ourselves and our peers.

Editorial | Faculty have a responsibility to support student activism

By The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board · Nov. 17, 2019

Any faculty at Penn that are still avoiding critical debates on our campus, like the fight for a graduate student union or payments in lieu of taxes, should take a lesson from the faculty and students willing to protest for a better future, and step off the sidelines. 

Connor Brandon | Remove the stigma around men in nursing

By Connor Brandon · Nov. 17, 2019

We live in a society where we praise women for holding positions of power in their fields, which we should. We should celebrate women for holding powerful positions, but these women are celebrated because the positions they hold are stereotypically held by men.

Emilia Onuonga | Don't feel embarrassed about your work-study job

By Emilia Onuonga · Nov. 17, 2019

At Penn, I've realized that very few people talk about working, let alone having work-study jobs. Even when students do discuss it, it's in lowered voices. 

Hadriana Lowenkron | Social media gives progressives a platform to create change

By Hadriana Lowenkron · Nov. 16, 2019

We must see the efforts of student activists — at Penn and elsewhere — as success stories that disprove Obama’s disingenuous and moderate approach to cultivating change.

Editorial | Listen to student voices. Make midterm evaluations mandatory.

By The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board · Nov. 13, 2019

To better support students and promote educational practices that work for everyone, Penn should mandate that professors and TAs be evaluated in the middle of the term as well.

Guest Column by Sean Bender and Rebecca Wallace | On transgender rights, where does Penn really stand?

By Sean Bender and Rebecca Wallace · Nov. 13, 2019

To President Gutmann and the general counsel’s office: You still have time to fix this.

Connor Brandon | Sexual orientation should not be a barrier for employment

By Connor Brandon · Nov. 12, 2019

With Penn’s large LGBTQ presence on campus, an upcoming Supreme Court decision has the ability to affect Penn graduates in many years to come, myself included. 

Sophia DuRose | The heartbeat bill poses a threat to women on our campus

By Sophia DuRose · Nov. 12, 2019

Considering how prevelant sexual abuse has proven to be on college campuses, this clause strikes me as particularly alarming and severe.  

Guest Column by seven Penn faculty members | We support student climate change action

By Eric W. Orts , Ann Farnsworth-Alvear , Sheila Murnaghan , Benjamin C. Pierce , Paul K. Saint-Amour , Steven Weitzman and Chi-ming Yang · Nov. 11, 2019

While not all of us agree on every tactic the students may employ, we as faculty urge our colleagues and University administrators to hear them out, engage them constructively, and take much bolder action.

Editorial | Renaming Penn Law exemplifies disregard for transparency and student voices

By The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board · Nov. 10, 2019

Penn should have consulted with students and stakeholders before taking this action, and must do so when making decisions in the future.

Surayya Walters | Shift Penn's culture surrounding failure

By Surayya Walters · Nov. 10, 2019

To let go, we must admit that we can’t do everything.

Urooba Abid | Muslim students need space on campus

By Urooba Abid · Nov. 10, 2019

Space on campus will not exclusively offer support for Muslim students.