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Opinion Columns

04/15/11 12:47am

Last Call | Party on, Quakers

If you need some ideas for what to do with the newspaper during Fling, I have a few suggestions.
04/14/11 4:28am

Scientifically Blonde | Spring Fling — a weekend of ecstasy

At times like Fling, at a place like college, it’s easy to see why students feel faced with a dilemma — to try or not to try ecstasy.
04/14/11 4:19am

Smart Alec | A Fling for the rest of us

I wish we had a culture tolerant of more than one way to enjoy Spring Fling.
04/13/11 4:55am

Say Anything | Ain’t nothin’ but a Fling thang

Dearest fellow Quakers, this concert is two hours long. If your best friend is sitting in another section, you’ll be okay.
04/13/11 4:48am

A Likely Story | ‘Good vibes. Great sandwiches’

My love for Potbelly comes from something bigger than food. Potbelly allows me to leave behind my overstated troubles and gain some perspective.
04/12/11 4:40am

The Gray Area | A PURManent endowment

It’s time to set priorities straight — the University needs to increase funding for the Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program.
04/12/11 4:23am

Tattle-Taylor | Getting lost in translation

Penn's 6:1 student-teacher ratio is meaningless without more actual teaching in language classes.
04/11/11 5:22am

Combat Ray-tions | The trials and tribulations of vegetarianism

There are always difficulties making a transition from one form of diet to another. My one-week attempt at being a vegetarian was no exception.
04/11/11 5:05am

The Gold Standard | Drill, baby, drill

Natural gas is an alternative energy resource that deserves to be embraced, not deplored. We should drill in the Marcellus Shale.
04/08/11 4:59am

Duly Noted | Cracking up the glass ceiling of comedy

Today, comediennes wear the figurative pants. Rather than trying to play down their looks or smarts, they aren’t afraid to use them as assets.
04/08/11 4:50am

Last Call | A recommendation for Penn

Penn’s Career Services could do more to help students when it comes to collecting and distributing letters of recommendations for graduate school.
04/07/11 4:29am

Truth Be Told | Paradise misguided

Lawmakers are trying to reduce costs by penalizing people who engage in behaviors that raise health risks. But are such behaviors taxable?
04/06/11 5:29am

The Half of It | Broken by the curve

Curving systems render grading less about individual performance and more about the performance of others.
04/06/11 5:11am

A Likely Story | Choosing my religion

Whether you embrace or dismiss religion, be aware of why you are doing so.
04/05/11 8:06am

Joke issue: The Gray Area | My second drink

For my second-ever drink, I had a can of the sweetest ambrosia known to man — a brand of beer called Pabst Blue Ribbon.
04/04/11 5:23am

Bank on It | How the internet killed creativity

As college students, we are practically attached to our laptops. Unfortunately, we have become victims to our own technology.
04/04/11 4:33am

The Gold Standard | The legacy double standard

It seems that sibling admissions have a half-legacy status at Penn. The University should count sibling legacy just as much as parent or grandparent legacy would.
04/01/11 5:38am

Last Call | Planning for the future

Having a knack for executing a successful event will be beneficial in your future career and offer useful experiences to draw upon in job interviews.
03/31/11 4:42am

Scientifically Blonde | Don’t let a paralyzing fear hold you back

Debilitating phobias can be a real problem. So I was pretty excited when I heard about a potential shortcut to overcome them.
03/31/11 4:15am

Smart Alec | The universal University

By extending our hand to young people across the globe, we are not only serving our national interests. We are feeding the nation’s soul.

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