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Opinion Columns

02/02/11 6:02am

A Likely Story | Shrinking Penn

Finding a version of Penn that is somehow your own can be challenging, but it is the only way in which anyone can have a meaningful Penn experience.
02/01/11 6:03am

Tattle-Taylor | No strength in numbers

Group projects often lead to unfair work distribution and some students receiving grades that they don’t deserve. We shouldn’t have to sacrifice our GPAs to do them.
02/01/11 5:52am

The Gray Area | Build a house of learning

Residences should continue the academic mission of the University — and there needs to be more student involvement to produce excitement and buy-in.
01/31/11 6:42am

Combat Ray-tions | Why tiger moms aren’t always superior

If Amy Chua intends for her book to serve as a parenting guide in any way, then what she forgets is that you cannot raise a child in a vacuum.
01/31/11 6:04am

The Gold Standard | Put the safety on

Let’s call upon our state and local legislators to forge a way forward that protects gun ownership rights while allowing Philadelphia to enact logical ordinances.
01/28/11 6:48am

Last Call | Capital gains

In their ongoing internship and job search, Penn students shouldn’t ignore the wealth of opportunities awaiting them in our nation’s capital.
01/27/11 5:43am

Smart Alec | Thinking past the crisis

President Gutmann should increase the general fee to give SAC the resources to pay fully for our least-funded academic division — student life.
01/27/11 5:21am

Scientifically Blonde | Zapping your brain to a 4.0

When I heard about a study from the University of Oxford that found that electroshock brain therapy makes you significantly better at math, my first thought was, “Where do I sign up?!”
01/26/11 7:24am

Say Anything | ‘Rape’ is a four-letter word

Casual misuse of the word ‘rape’ is abhorrent and absolutely unacceptable.
01/26/11 7:18am

A Likely Story | Confessions of a grade nut

Throughout my time as a Penn student I have been truly sure only of the fact that doubt has defined me a great deal more than assuredness.
01/25/11 6:39am

The Gray Area | An opportunity for dialogue

The Penn Dems-College Republicans joint State of the Union address watch party is a time for us to have a discussion about how we should be moving forward with political debates.
01/25/11 6:19am

Peace Not Politics | Reviving bipartisanship — it could happen

Congressional Republicans face a defining choice — work with the president on major policy issues or obstruct his agenda for the next two years.
01/24/11 6:36am

The Gold Standard | From stimulus to deficit

The budget crisis staring the local school system directly in the face was driven by the federal stimulus package of 2009.
01/24/11 6:28am

Bank on It | A standard system for evaluation

More emphasis should be placed on a single standardized test, which will allow for a better comparison among students from different schools.
01/21/11 5:44am

Duly Noted | The (used book) shop around the corner

Picking up a book from one of the two-dozen used bookstores in the city instead of from a chain helps small business, the environment and your wallet.
01/21/11 5:39am

Last Call | More morning mail

In the future, the University should create and automatically add all undergraduates to an events listserv and make it opt-out rather than opt-in.
01/20/11 6:33am

Truth Be Told | Peddling hope in a placebo

Given that there is a wealth of evidence that thinking happy thoughts actually is therapeutic, I’d say this Peter Pan placebo effect isn’t that far-fetched.
01/20/11 6:18am

Smart Alec | End the over-budgeting crisis

Enacting a moratorium on new groups is exactly the one measure that will do nothing to help the current crisis. Too much money is going out to existing groups.
01/19/11 5:16am

The Half of It | An SMS alert: forget me not!

At Penn, I find myself tiring of dispensable introductions and the casual conversations that follow. The prevalence and acceptability of disposable relationships is simply unnecessary.
01/19/11 5:09am

A Likely Story | Information addiction

We addicts of information would be better off trading some status updates and messages in our inboxes for a little more time together ­— the old-fashioned, offline way.

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