Opinion Columns
Charles Gray | The tragedy of aborted potential
There aren’t enough people involved in the pro-life movement at Penn.
Dan Bernick | Survey says: work smart, play smart
Penn students “work hard and play hard.” But if a just-released survey is any indication, Quakers want to work smarter and play smarter.
Brian Goldman | Coming out of the conservative closet
Today, I’ve decided to come out of the closet. I’m not coming out as a gay man, no. I’m referring to the other kind of closet — the conservative closet.
Rachel del Valle | Reconsidering the classics
The glamour and grace embodied by Hollywood icons seems to be lost in the translation of generations. In an effort to capture the charm of eras past, something is watered down.
Ernest Owens | Occupying food for thought
I have an unlimited number of meal swipes. I pay $4,200 each year. And I have fed 3,000 other people since I bought Eat Any Time, the most expensive meal plan, this semester.
Taylor Hawes | Identifying the faces of crime
Pretty women who are accused perpetrators of violent crime almost always receive more than their fair share of media attention.
Alexey Komissarouk | The Lords of Wallnut Street
There are a plethora of alternate career paths available to students with the initiative and desire to explore beyond what is immediately available.
Sally Engelhart | Why calories don’t count
Posting caloric information on restaurant menus doesn’t make people consume fewer calories, and it might actually be sabotaging people from making healthy food choices.
Cornelius Range V | Reality television gone wrong
Why do you know who Kim Kardashian is? Does anyone actually care? Somewhere along the way, reality TV took a turn for the worse and wound up with her.
Samantha Sharf | A portrait from a movement
The Occupy movement has been criticized for lacking a cohesive voice, but one artist has a message and plenty of stories to tell — including her own.
Charles Gray | A race that shouldn’t go unnoticed
On Nov. 8, in Philadelphia’s local elections, there is one race at the bottom of the ballot that is especially competitive and where there is an opportunity for political unity — the race for city commissioner.
Travis Cantrell | Plunging into the V-neck underworld
A columnist searches for answers within a society where V-necks reign supreme.
Rachel del Valle | Protest in ‘the people’s university’
Read a first-person account of Friday’s Occupy Eric Cantor demonstration.
Brian Goldman | A drawn-out war gets a drowned-out end
President Barack Obama’s announcement to withdraw all troops from Iraq by year’s end garnered relatively little attention but carries weighty implications.
Charles Gray | Get better — not bitter
Yesterday, we missed an opportunity to hear Eric Cantor talk about the solution to the problems our nation faces.
Ernest Owens | Internal racial paranoia at Penn
If minorities on campus want others to respect our presence, we must not be prejudiced amongst ourselves.
Mark Attiah | Bring the ‘House’ down
Medical dramas misrepresent the reality of life in a hospital. No matter how smart he is, in real life, House probably would have been fired from his job very, very quickly.
Sara Brenes-Akerman | Humanizing cape-less heroes
I expect my personal heroes to be perfect — to be the people whom I have meticulously imagined them to be. But remembering David Sedaris’ humanity made meeting him more rewarding.
Cornelius Range V | Occupying parallel realities
Most Penn students live in a different reality from those at the heart of the Occupy Wall Street protests. In order to fairly assess the movement, we have to step into this other reality.