The media is turning Giffords' tragedy into a narrative of triumph, but being too optimistic about a grave and uncertain brain injury might be bad.
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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.
Residences should continue the academic mission of the University — and there needs to be more student involvement to produce excitement and buy-in.
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By ransacking its higher education to pay down its budget deficit and cutting immigration, the U.K. stands to lose great American students — including those from Penn.
Wharton does not only cater to manic number crunchers and Wall Street wannabes. Let business take its place alongside arts and humanities.
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.
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.
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.
Residences should continue the academic mission of the University — and there needs to be more student involvement to produce excitement and buy-in.
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.
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.
In their ongoing internship and job search, Penn students shouldn’t ignore the wealth of opportunities awaiting them in our nation’s capital.
President Gutmann should increase the general fee to give SAC the resources to pay fully for our least-funded academic division — student life.
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?!”
Casual misuse of the word ‘rape’ is abhorrent and absolutely unacceptable.
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.
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.
Congressional Republicans face a defining choice — work with the president on major policy issues or obstruct his agenda for the next two years.
The budget crisis staring the local school system directly in the face was driven by the federal stimulus package of 2009.
More emphasis should be placed on a single standardized test, which will allow for a better comparison among students from different schools.
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.
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.
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.
