Opinion Columns
Rachel del Valle | What's all the buzz about?
It seems that, especially on a college campus, reading for pleasure has become a rare activity.
Robert Hsu | E-Cigarettes: The evil new kid?
To declare e-cigarettes a silver bullet to smoking simply because it is the lesser of two evils is to blatantly ignore the lessons we have learned from tobacco control.Arielle Pardes | Stop cyberstalking your ex
Actively engaging, instead of the one-sided cyberstalking that we’re wont to do, can help tame the feelings of insanity, jealousy and powerlessness that come from seeing our exes all over the internet.
Ali Kokot & Hayley Brooks | ACBeware
Anyone with a beating heart understands that writing these posts is mean, but it might be a whole lot more than mean. Beyond just being a jerk, you could be liable for a big legal headache.
Ryan Daniels | Dialing back
The average American gets a new phone every 22 months. Isn’t that a little crazy?
Clarissa O'Conor | An ordinary Tuesday morning in Palestine?
According to the Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions, which keeps track of Israel’s destruction of Palestinian property, Israel has destroyed 527 Palestinian homes in 2013.
Rachel del Valle | The most wonderful time of the year?
I used to dislike the commercialization, the overeagerness surrounding the “Most Wonderful Time of the Year.” But now I see that maybe it’s not such a bad thing.Arielle Pardes | Happy whore-o-ween
The outfit you wear does not prescribe your actions for Halloween night — and maybe we should stop calling them “slutty” costumes altogether.
Arjun Gupta | Welcome to the (Ivy) jungle
Most of us were probably standouts in our high school, and now the tables have turned. Or at least, aren’t oriented so much in our favor. But when you’re at or near the top all the time, how much more can you grow?
Ryan Daniels | Reaching for the clouds
Why have we been so slow to reboot our computing and give hard drives the boot?
Caroline Brand The antisocial Ivy?
I estimate that we exchange names and handshakes with someone once a day, but would venture to say that few, if any, of these people ever hear from us again.
Xavier Flory | Following Franklin, not the Benjamins
Slipping into the mainstream usually means leaving our more cherished ambitions behind.
Jeff Nadel | Minimum wage malarkey
Many would consider it a travesty of justice to pay someone $5.00 per hour, but it’s fine for Penn students to work 12-hour days at an internship for $0.00 an hour.
Rachel del Valle | Life is good?
There’s more of a symbiotic relationship between the highs and lows of temperament than most people recognize. It’s not so much a dichotomy as a continuum.
Robert Hsu | How not to choose classes
Penn Course Review is an ingenious idea with value, but we should still be wary of using it as our primary decision-making tool.Arielle Pardes | Have your cake and eat it, too
While non-monogamy isn’t a cure-all for relationships that don’t feel salubrious to begin with, it can relieve the smothering sense of FOMO from college relationships.
Sindhuri Nandhakumar | Read it (all) and weep
Shouldn’t the point of classes be to learn the material, not learn to skim?
Ali Kokot & Hayley Brooks | Not so private
Your professor is not fooled by your seeming interest in your nether regions.
Ryan Daniels | A tale of two shutdowns
When my power was finally reconnected, I found a few similarities between the government shutdown and my earlier predicament.