Now, as I take the helm of the organization that gave me a purpose at Penn, I have one request for my team, and for the Penn community at-large: Ask the right questions.
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It is time to recognize the 40% of Americans who think abortion should be illegal in all or most cases not as villains, but as fellow Americans who have a different opinion.
Tejaswi Bhavaraju | Liberals: Don't just protest conservative speakers. Debate them.
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Tejaswi Bhavaraju
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Dec. 4, 2019
Instead of protesting, groups that disagree with a speaker's message ought to confront their ideas.
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Emilia Onuonga
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Dec. 10, 2019
While constant partying can make you happy in the moment, it is not the answer to stress.
Rather than constantly feeling the need to be surrounded by people, Penn students ought to spend more time alone.
Selling courses may seem harmless or like a mutually beneficial business decision. However, Penn students should think twice before they sell a popular course.
Selling courses may seem harmless or like a mutually beneficial business decision. However, Penn students should think twice before they sell a popular course.
It is time to recognize the 40% of Americans who think abortion should be illegal in all or most cases not as villains, but as fellow Americans who have a different opinion.
Tejaswi Bhavaraju | Liberals: Don't just protest conservative speakers. Debate them.
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Tejaswi Bhavaraju
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Dec. 4, 2019
Instead of protesting, groups that disagree with a speaker's message ought to confront their ideas.
Lark Yan | The 6B must continue to fight for more space for the cultural houses
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Lark Yan
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Dec. 4, 2019
Until minority groups see equal representation and value on campus from Penn administration, via equal spacing and resources, then whatever small offers Penn might provide will not be good enough.
This is our future on the line. We do not have the luxury of waiting to be the leaders of tomorrow.
While SHS does list failure rates of other kinds of contraceptive options, they have no information about what those options are or how to use them.
I’m sure I’m not the only one with scraps of unread paper crushed in the bottom of my bag. If you’re with me, I say let these be the last flyers to go to waste.
In the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘’we must learn to live together as brothers or we will perish together as fools.'' We must be the change we seek.
Alfredo Praticò | From Kendra Brooks to Carey Law, student voices can effect change
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Alfredo Praticò
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Nov. 20, 2019
Our voices made an impact. We saw the specific issues we wanted changed, we came together, we worked hard, and the results we wanted came through.
As Penn makes deliberate efforts to increase student wellness at Penn, our academic calendar has to be leveraged as a tool to decrease the negative effects our campus culture has on ourselves and our peers.
We live in a society where we praise women for holding positions of power in their fields, which we should. We should celebrate women for holding powerful positions, but these women are celebrated because the positions they hold are stereotypically held by men.
At Penn, I've realized that very few people talk about working, let alone having work-study jobs. Even when students do discuss it, it's in lowered voices.
Hadriana Lowenkron | Social media gives progressives a platform to create change
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Hadriana Lowenkron
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Nov. 16, 2019
We must see the efforts of student activists — at Penn and elsewhere — as success stories that disprove Obama’s disingenuous and moderate approach to cultivating change.
Connor Brandon | Sexual orientation should not be a barrier for employment
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Connor Brandon
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Nov. 12, 2019
With Penn’s large LGBTQ presence on campus, an upcoming Supreme Court decision has the ability to affect Penn graduates in many years to come, myself included.
Sophia DuRose | The heartbeat bill poses a threat to women on our campus
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Sophia DuRose
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Nov. 12, 2019
Considering how prevelant sexual abuse has proven to be on college campuses, this clause strikes me as particularly alarming and severe.
To let go, we must admit that we can’t do everything.
Space on campus will not exclusively offer support for Muslim students.
