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Monday, Oct. 12, 2026
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Amy Gutmann


While personally traumatic experiences are important to address and treat on college campuses, trigger warnings are neither a fair nor sufficient solution to such issues and would ultimately serve to undermine the fundamental values of academia.

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While personally traumatic experiences are important to address and treat on college campuses, trigger warnings are neither a fair nor sufficient solution to such issues and would ultimately serve to undermine the fundamental values of academia.



Ferguson Shooting Town Hall

A month has passed since 18-year old Michael Brown was shot in Ferguson, Mo. The mass protests have quieted down, but the energy is still felt on Penn’s campus.Not in the form of a protest, or a large-scale public demonstration.








Athletic Director, Steve Bilsky, is interviewed.

On the athletic field, however, there seems to be no need for a comparison or ranking:  The Ivy League schools play each other for Ivy titles, and the stats clearly say who is the best — after all, the Ivy League is primarily an athletic conference.




You might be paying too much for your textbooks.While many students buy their course materials online to save time and money, they may be overlooking an important tax exemption.


The Daily Pennsylvanian

Integration of humanities and the arts in research universities will take center stage this weekend at the Humanities and the Arts in the Integrated Knowledge University (HAIKU) Conference at the Penn Museum.


Katiera SordjanThe Melting Pot

The hardest part of being on leave was dealing with the shame of what felt like such a heavy failure. To me, every day I wasn’t in class was another day that I was being idle. It didn’t matter how much I helped my family out around the house, how much I volunteered or how many doctor’s appointments I went to. If I wasn’t a student, if I wasn’t employed, I wasn’t a productive member of society — end of story.