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We’re seeing senior women with full courseloads, a work-study or part-time job, relationships and leadership positions who, shockingly, want to take a few hours to themselves sometimes. What’s so wrong with that? Washed up? We think not.
According to some analysts, Amazon Prime is part of a huge scheme to alter the way internet consumers consume.
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In most cases, sexting holds the same appeal as any other erotic act — the only difference is that it’s digitalized.
Amidst all of the noise about Syria coming from the talking heads in Washington, a bigger point has largely been ignored.
There is a large discrepancy between the medically accepted notions of healthy bodies and the images encouraged by popular culture, and I’m not the only one who’s been affected by it.
There is a large discrepancy between the medically accepted notions of healthy bodies and the images encouraged by popular culture, and I’m not the only one who’s been affected by it.
We’re seeing senior women with full courseloads, a work-study or part-time job, relationships and leadership positions who, shockingly, want to take a few hours to themselves sometimes. What’s so wrong with that? Washed up? We think not.
According to some analysts, Amazon Prime is part of a huge scheme to alter the way internet consumers consume.
Acting like a real person means, essentially, acting like a grown-up, an adult. But it doesn’t have the same, sad, unexciting connotation as those other terms.
The discourse of empowerment makes us feel good about putting a Band-Aid on something while avoiding actually questioning our role in systematic racism, oppression and injustice.
The ivory tower is often derided for how elitist and out of touch it is, but isolation from the world is a good and necessary thing.
Every year that I have been at Penn, I have been chilled by the premature deaths in our University community.
More than an eighth of the undergraduates at Penn are international students and a significant fraction of the faculty is also foreign, meaning that under FISA, the government can track all their communications.
It is possible to divorce supporting the troops as a whole political entity from respecting the individuals who serve.
The twerk used to be just a bouncy dance that came of age in a culture where people just wanted to get down and have a good time. It was good, clean fun.
Demeaning the Penn State name is just another identity crisis of our University.
Many professionals in the corporate world spend plenty of time on public interest projects. Unfortunately, few students — including myself over the past few years — know about these people.
Rather than feeling more oriented to Penn, all of this has left me feeling a bit lost and confused.
In most situations, hugs are an inordinately intimate greeting. Sometimes I find myself in the grasp of a hug with someone who I’d never even had a one-on-one conversation with.
Over the summer, transitioning from a loud college student to a perfectly postured professional was tough.
While the boycott has succeeded in raising awareness, the philosophy of it is misguided.
If other minorities can have developed characters — think Kurt from “Glee” or Sophia from “Orange is the New Black” — why can’t Asian-Americans?
