Currently, four Ivies permit an ROTC program on campus, and only two, Penn and Cornell University, continue to award any sort of academic credit for cadet participation. This should change.
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It’s one thing to support your own position and refute those who disagree with you, but it’s quite another to actively prevent alternate theories from being published, which it seems is what some of these researchers hoped to accomplish.
While fun, it’s still too early to switch to eBooks for textbooks.
At the end of the semester, when stress reaches a high point, we teaching assistants tend to hear a lot of griping from our students. While undergrads have their complaints, we have ours too.
It’s one thing to support your own position and refute those who disagree with you, but it’s quite another to actively prevent alternate theories from being published, which it seems is what some of these researchers hoped to accomplish.
While fun, it’s still too early to switch to eBooks for textbooks.
Texting, perhaps because it feels so discreet, lacks clear boundaries in determining when it’s appropriate.
Once upon a time, there was a princess. There’s usually always a princess involved.
Back on campus after Thanksgiving break, we haven’t just returned to the steady routine of takeout and five hours of sleep per night — we’re also one step closer to finals.
Once the final bell rings, you’ll be hard-pressed to find much student engagement in Philly middle schools coordinated by the School District of Philadelphia. And here is where you all come in.
Long- distance travel on Amtrak has logistical and social benefits.
The squirrel-theft ridiculousness has gone on just a tad too long — here are my open letters offering solutions.
I don’t know how to write about rape. If it were something abstract to me, I could probably distance myself, but victims of sexual assault are my friends and classmates, and it’s happening all the time.
For most, Halloween Friday is a bacchanalia of wild parties and scandalous outfits; I saw Shakespeare.
The Student Activities Council is responsible for allocating more than $800,000 to more than 140 student groups across campus that received funding this year. And it is in serious need of reform.
Just when you thought politics were getting boring again, Sarah Palin burst back onto the political scene this week with her new book.
Many of us know someone running the 26.2 miles this weekend, and most of us think that they are insane.
“I hate my life,” or “Eff my life” seem like such melodramatic and inappropriate things to say. Eff my life? Really?
Fellows in Building Intercultural Communities, a new program, can bridge the divides among the diverse communities at Penn.
Penn students should become more involved in the DREAM Act.


