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Amy Gutmann

The Daily Pennsylvanian

Let's pay this bill tomorrow with a smile before we are assessed what we really owe. The climate has changed. Part of Penn’s success is because of Philadelphia, not in spite of it.


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By The Daily Pennsylvanian · Nov. 19, 2015

This week, a four-part series in The Daily Pennsylvanian exposed the concerning state of housing facilities across campus. Besides drawing attention to the run-down and quite frankly, unsafe conditions that 54 percent of students live in, the series highlighted another equally troubling phenomenon: Facilities and Real Estate Services’ widespread lack of concern for people, including students and workers.









In the wake of protests against racism on campuses around the country last week, many of my acquaintances took to social media to declare their status as “allies” of the protestors, and to affirm their solidarity with the various movements participating. It was far from first time I’d seen the term “ally” used in conjunction with social justice movements, but it raised the concept afresh in my mind.


Injustice and violence are rampant, equality is still a dream, the civil rights movement is in Act 2 of a seemingly never-ending play and innocent lives are taken on a daily basis for reasons that are both illogical and unsubstantiated.


Wrestling vs. Brown

At the start of last season, most sentences involving C.J. Cobb ended in a question mark. But after finishing one win shy of All-American status in 2015, Cobb provided the answers to those questions and planted the seeds for what is set to be a limitless swan song for the Red and Blue.




Associate Ombudsman Marcia Martinez-Helfman (left) and Ombudsman Lynn Hollen Lees (right).

The Office of the Ombudsman works to “help people think through situations of stress or conflict in which they’re involved, to help deescalate conflict, and to help people move forward to a resolution"