Opinion Columns
Bridget Yu | The dialogue on mental health needs concrete solutions
Simply stating the flaws is not enough; we must target and pinpoint concrete solutions if we seek any form of progress.
Sophia DuRose | Law school applications are too expensive
In a world that already caters to wealth, putting one more boundary in the way of less privileged students is not the way to ensure equal access to higher education.
Lark Yan | Penn needs to explain the defunding of Wharton Public Policy Initiative
By deciding to defund PPI, Penn not only devalued students’ opinions but also deemphasized the importance of public policy research.
Letter from the President | Ask the right questions
Now, as I take the helm of the organization that gave me a purpose at Penn, I have one request for my team, and for the Penn community at-large: Ask the right questions.
Emilia Onuonga | The 'work hard, play harder' mentality is deeply flawed
While constant partying can make you happy in the moment, it is not the answer to stress.
Emilia Onuonga | Penn students should spend more time alone
Rather than constantly feeling the need to be surrounded by people, Penn students ought to spend more time alone.
Ilyse Reisman | Penn students, please don’t sell your classes
Selling courses may seem harmless or like a mutually beneficial business decision. However, Penn students should think twice before they sell a popular course.
Otto Piasecki | Listen to all sides of the abortion debate
It is time to recognize the 40% of Americans who think abortion should be illegal in all or most cases not as villains, but as fellow Americans who have a different opinion.
Tejaswi Bhavaraju | Liberals: Don't just protest conservative speakers. Debate them.
Instead of protesting, groups that disagree with a speaker's message ought to confront their ideas.
Lark Yan | The 6B must continue to fight for more space for the cultural houses
Until minority groups see equal representation and value on campus from Penn administration, via equal spacing and resources, then whatever small offers Penn might provide will not be good enough.
Urooba Abid | The Harvard-Yale protest gives me hope
This is our future on the line. We do not have the luxury of waiting to be the leaders of tomorrow.
Sophia DuRose | Penn must educate its student body on birth control
While SHS does list failure rates of other kinds of contraceptive options, they have no information about what those options are or how to use them.
Sophia DuRose | Stop flyering on Locust
I’m sure I’m not the only one with scraps of unread paper crushed in the bottom of my bag. If you’re with me, I say let these be the last flyers to go to waste.
Surayya Walters | Stop ignoring tokenism at Penn
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
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
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.
Connor Brandon | Remove the stigma around men in nursing
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
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
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.