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Amy Chan | Honoring those we have lost means keeping their individuality alive
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Amy Chan
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Feb. 20, 2018
To live the way someone would have wanted us to live is a grand, beautiful task, because it requires intimate knowledge of the person we lost and it acknowledges that they were more than some casualty in the circle of life.
We should not view the process of changing campus culture as an interview where one individual asks questions and the other has answers.
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Dylan Reim
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Feb. 22, 2018
One of the deepest benefits of my education has been teaching myself to unlearn. Unlearning that our natural outlook is the objectively best one.
Imagine another four years with the same people you’ve come to know and love.
Rebecca Alifimoff | From cornfields to Connecticut: missing my hometown
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Rebecca Alifimoff
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Feb. 20, 2018
In high school, I wanted more than anything to move away from Indiana and never return. Now that I’ve gotten my wish, I miss it with a longing ache.
Rebecca Alifimoff | From cornfields to Connecticut: missing my hometown
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Rebecca Alifimoff
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Feb. 20, 2018
In high school, I wanted more than anything to move away from Indiana and never return. Now that I’ve gotten my wish, I miss it with a longing ache.
Amy Chan | Honoring those we have lost means keeping their individuality alive
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Amy Chan
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Feb. 20, 2018
To live the way someone would have wanted us to live is a grand, beautiful task, because it requires intimate knowledge of the person we lost and it acknowledges that they were more than some casualty in the circle of life.
We should not view the process of changing campus culture as an interview where one individual asks questions and the other has answers.
While women have often taken the initiative to discuss matters of sexual assault and violence, the absence of men in these spaces speaks louder than words.
We soaked in Philadelphia in all its brilliant, flashy, beeping, honking, waving, screaming, shouting splendor
Spencer Swanson | Gone with the Wynn: Why Penn must tread lightly with the legacies of controversial alumni
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Spencer Swanson
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Feb. 14, 2018
We must guard diligently against rewriting the past just to please the popular opinion of the day and to make people comfortable in contemporary society.
Isabella Simonetti | How hookup culture has stolen our manners
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Isabella Simonetti
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Feb. 14, 2018
Making out, sex, and everything in between — all with no strings attached. Sounds perfect, right?
Despite many fraternities’ cult-like efforts to keep pledging under wraps to avoid prosecution, most Penn students have heard accounts from pledges about sleepless nights, humiliating activities, and servant-type orders from pledge masters.
Jennifer Lee | To experience Philadelphia, Penn students need to ride SEPTA more
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Jennifer Lee
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Feb. 12, 2018
Throughout the entire journey, from hopping onto a packed trolley car to emerging aboveground through the beautiful glass head house of Dilworth Park, I feel completely immersed in the Philadelphia community.
Christine Olagun-Samuel | While you’re glued to your smartphone, Penn is passing you by
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Christine Olagun-Samuel
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Feb. 11, 2018
The moment our phones are held up in our hands and our headphones in, walls are put up and barriers are created.
Rebecca Alifimoff | For me, the CAPS referral process was barely better than Google
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Rebecca Alifimoff
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Feb. 10, 2018
I went through an administrative process only to end with links to readily available databases. My CAPS experience wasn’t a referral as much as it was a brush-off.
Isabella Simonetti | Battling mental illness in my first year at Penn has made me stronger
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Isabella Simonetti
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Feb. 9, 2018
No matter how much it’s stigmatized, how unusual it might be to be open to talking about it, my anxiety and depression have taught me to care for myself.
Dylan Reim | You don't need Penn's permission to go the Super Bowl victory parade
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Dylan Reim
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Feb. 7, 2018
I’m glad my decision to attend the parade won’t be hampered by a class absence, but if the parade were as important to me as it seems to be to some people, I’d happily chug a couple green beers, rub some dirt on that shiny attendance record, and go make memories.
Calvary Rogers | Avoiding the bird’s eye view: integrating ourselves in Philadelphia
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Calvary Rogers
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Feb. 6, 2018
I had the most fun I’ve ever had in this city. For the first time in my academic career here at Penn, I felt like a Philadelphian.
Alex Kuang | Penn students often ‘pull trig,’ but does this actually prevent nausea and hangovers?
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Alex Kuang
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Feb. 6, 2018
Pulling trig has become the holy cure for a wild night of debauchery, but no one seems to know exactly what it does.
The awkwardness of meandering through a question you don’t quite know how to ask shouldn’t stop us.
What do we do when something we love becomes something we hate?
