Group Think | Are students taking too many courses outside of their home schools?

By Jessica Li , Jacquelyn Sussman , Alex Silberzweig and Carlos Arias Vivas · Oct. 2, 2017

Should Penn change course requirements so that students in Wharton, Nursing and Engineering can take more classes in their home schools or is the system fine as it currently is?

Amy Chan | Struck by happiness

By Amy Chan · Sept. 28, 2017

Like most people, I always believed happiness was a fleeting emotion. And, like most people, I believed that though we cannot create happiness, we can still somehow tame the slippery creature. 

Calvary Rogers | Redefining what you love

By Calvary Rogers · Sept. 27, 2017

Within our college experiences, we often limit ourselves to what we are already a part of and the social circles we are comfortable with.

Lucy Hu | Penn Face is a part of who we are

By Lucy Hu · Sept. 26, 2017

It’s crucial to know what causes Penn Face at its root. Are the forces simply too strong to be overcome?

Spencer Swanson | Might Merkel matter?

By Spencer Swanson · Sept. 26, 2017

This election does matter as it represents the continuation of Germany being the clear leader among liberal Western democracies, in a time when many countries are shifting significantly towards nationalism and authoritarianism.

Isabella Simonetti | Confronting rape culture as a freshman girl

By Isabella Simonetti · Sept. 25, 2017

Penn must do a better job of educating freshmen on the less overt aspects of rape culture that infiltrate the social scene.

Sara Merican | To mean what I say

By Sara Merican · Sept. 25, 2017

I refuse to dress my words up anymore, or play mind games with words. I want my words to be true.

Cameron Dichter | Wasn’t this supposed to be about preventing sexual assault?

By Cameron Dichter · Sept. 25, 2017

By shifting its focus from sexual assault to alcohol abuse and hazing, the administration has unfortunately redirected our attention away from the issue that matters most.

Group Think | Should Penn end its event monitoring policies?

By Cameron Dichter , James Lee , Spencer Swanson , Isabella Simonetti and Lucy Hu · Sept. 25, 2017

Do you believe that the task force efforts to combat sexual violence and substance abuse are currently misguided with regards to events monitoring?

Shilpa Saravanan | The false dichotomy between work and play

By Shilpa Saravanan · Sept. 21, 2017

The petition at issue is poorly-argued and out of touch, but the idea that we are entitled to this kind of social life didn’t start with those who wrote and supported its message.

Jacquelyn Sussman | The staggering pressure to hook up

By Jacquelyn Sussman · Sept. 20, 2017

Hooking up is perpetuated throughout campus as a part of Penn life, and as a Penn student, you are physically stuck here. 

Alex Silberzweig | Major shaming: What’s the use?

By Alex Silberzweig · Sept. 19, 2017

If we continue to major shame on a larger scale, we’ll most likely study subjects we don’t care for and will perform poorly in our studies. If we don’t enjoy what we’re doing, it will be much harder for us to succeed in the long run. 

Carlos Arias Vivas | Behind the closed doors of a single

By Carlos Arias Vivas · Sept. 18, 2017

Being in a single is not the most luxurious experience in the world. There are many perks to having your own space, but the social drawbacks are much more impactful. 

Sara Merican | An ode to language learning

By Sara Merican · Sept. 17, 2017

This semester, I had second thoughts, but ended up registering for Korean again. Something keeps me going back.

Jessica Li | We need to normalize rejection

By Jessica Li · Sept. 17, 2017

Penn’s competitive club culture is not going away, and rejection itself is not going away, either.

Toe the Line: College Republicans | Trump’s DACA compromise and the left’s hysteria

By Michael Moroz · Sept. 17, 2017

President Trump was right to rescind President Obama’s unconstitutional DACA executive order. He was also right to call for Congress to send him a bill making DACA U.S. law.

Toe the Line: Penn Democrats | DACA: Morality beyond economy

By Erin Farrell · Sept. 17, 2017

These Dreamers are more than statistics, more than business-owners, more than contributing students, more than researchers or computer scientists.