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Opinion Columns

10/12/12 1:40am

Ernest Owens | Fast, pray, love to celebrate 21

For most of my life, I aimed to prove others wrong. I strived to defy the socioeconomic gravity that tried to pull me down.
10/11/12 12:43am

Lauren Agresti | A #FirstWorldProblem that matters

We all feel pain, fall violently ill, lose loved ones and experience betrayal. Suffering is — and always has been — the universal human condition.
10/11/12 12:41am

Kurt Mitman | Double down on tuition

Penn provides an incredible education and should be charging more.
10/10/12 1:39am

Sindhuri Nandhakumar | Not complacent about caste

Hinduism has been simplified to festivals like Holi which celebrates color and Diwali, the festival of lights.
10/10/12 1:39am

Adam Silver | Putting people over politics

Mindless partisanship, where voters act like sports fans, has leaked down to the lowest levels of each party. It has even seeped onto this campus.
10/09/12 1:04am

Kyle Henson | Allowing technology to reinvent college

Are lectures really the best way to employ Penn’s eminent faculty? Are undergraduates getting their $39,088 worth of tuition by listening passively?
10/09/12 1:02am

JY Lee | A plea for democracy

Penn should embrace its proud democratic tradition that began with Benjamin Franklin.
10/08/12 1:11am

Max Scheiber | The numbers will set you free

You owe it to yourself and the world around you to learn some math.
10/05/12 1:31am

Ernest Owens | The end of petty poster policies

This arbitrary rule distracts from the substance of elections and leads to petty violations.
10/05/12 1:29am

Aya Saed | Making a house a home

With such a deep history and continued commitment to Afro-American history, what could stop me from living in the house?
10/04/12 1:37am

Alexa Nicolas | Taking a poop at Penn

Let’s explore some fecal matters.
10/04/12 1:33am

Lauren Agresti | Thank God it’s Parents’ Weekend

Even though my 22nd birthday is around the corner, I miss my parents and my brother and my mouse-free bedroom. I miss home.
10/03/12 1:37am

Adam Silver | Wherever the wind blows

Come November, Romney will lose because a man who tries to stand for everything stands for nothing.
10/03/12 1:35am

Divya Ramesh | The power of postponement

Procrastination is a good thing — as long as it’s the right kind.
10/02/12 1:20am

Brian Collopy | Coursera and the competition

Competition is why online education is here to stay.
09/30/12 10:22pm

Yessenia Gutierrez | Like a song? Cover it

In truth, the musical world is a big old love fest, with artists referencing, sampling and covering each other all the time.
09/30/12 9:41pm

Wesley Vaughn | Just reveal yourself

I’d rather vote for someone that I trust as a person rather than someone I only trust to support my political beliefs.
09/27/12 11:16pm

Ernest Owens | Discovering our unsung leaders

Civic mentors may not be campus celebrities but they are the true unsung leaders on campus.
09/26/12 11:21pm

Lauren Agresti | Just a line on your resume

Our undergraduate degrees constitute one expensive but necessary line on our resumes that supports, but does not singlehandedly define, the parameters of our knowledge and skills.
09/26/12 11:18pm

Kurt Mitman | It’s not that hard to call

I often think about the one grandparent I have left — my 89-year-old grandmother in Indiana. Every time I call her she asks when I’m coming to visit. And I can always hear the disappointment in her voice when I say, “When I can find a weekend that I have free.”

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