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Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026
The Daily Pennsylvanian

Amy Gutmann

Katiera SordjanThe Melting Pot

But even without Photoshop, the same ideals continue to inform their image selection. America consistently sees beauty through a lens that has nothing to do with cameras — one that excludes people of varying classes, genders, sexualities and races. Models’ dropping BMIs are indications of a much larger societal desire to confine beauty. Photography and other forms of media cannot spontaneously create cultural views; they are shaped by context and represent the society that they are created in.


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I am writing in response to the editorial of 10/27. We appreciate the concerns raised in this editorial about the publication of reports by the Office of Student Conduct (OSC). We will soon announce the appointment of a new Director of OSC, whose first priority will be to address the data tracking and related issues that have delayed these reports in the past.

Autism Speaks has no interest in improving the lives of autistic people. It is dedicated entirely to improving the lives of those without autism, who, it holds, are unfairly burdened by having to deal with people whose sensory and social experiences differ dramatically from their own, to the point where cold-blooded murder is an understandable, sympathetic response. Autism Speaks seeks not to change the future for autistic people, but to end it.





The fall season means many devoted hours reviewing applications for the Office of Admissions at the Perelman School of Medicine, which last year received 5,742 applications and interviewed 898 candidates.