10/20/16 4:27am
In the spring, The Daily Pennsylvanian Opinion Board endorsed candidates for the primaries from each party — John Kasich and Hillary Clinton.
10/19/16 1:11am
In crafting the personas of the presidential candidates, media outlets have emphasized the role higher education has played in the development of presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
09/22/16 2:14am
If it took you a while to learn about the shooting near campus on Friday night, you might have been clued in by the whirr of the helicopter blades or by the Daily Pennsylvanian's news updates, or even by the email sent the following day by the administration.
09/21/16 2:31am
A recent poll of Penn College Republicans reveals something we never would have expected. While a 60 percent majority of Republican students do not support Donald Trump, a surprising 40 percent of them answered that they support the controversial candidate.
Many of us might have been confused to find out that so many of our fellow students support the Republican presidential nominee.
09/08/16 4:06am
Two days after an Oz email for a “Wild Wednesday” party addressed to Penn women was flyered across campus with the captions “THIS IS WHAT RAPE CULTURE LOOKS LIKE” and “WE ARE WATCHING,” many of the physical papers have been taken down.
04/25/16 5:26am
It’s been two weeks since Wharton junior Ao “Olivia” Kong died by suicide. Since then, Fling has come and gone, finals are looming and as we have nine times before, we are beginning to move on from the discussion of mental health.
04/05/16 3:15am
The disruption by protesters of the talk being given by sitting CIA Director John Brennan on Friday afternoon is a dark mark on this University’s reputation.
03/30/16 5:37pm
Despite what some might say, the Undergraduate Assembly is a body of students that has the potential to have a large amount of influence at Penn.
03/15/16 3:55am
With the Pennsylvania primaries fast approaching, as well as those of many other relevant states, the DP Opinion board is endorsing candidates for the Presidential Primaries, as we have in past elections.
03/03/16 5:11am
The spring semester may only be at its halfway point, but Penn has set the calendar for the next academic year.
02/25/16 4:36am
What truly matters to the safety of Penn students is not what leaves the library, but what enters it.
02/18/16 5:15am
Yesterday, Penn welcomed Caitlyn Jenner as the Social Planning and Events Committee Connaissance spring speaker and QPenn’s keynote speaker.
02/08/16 4:00am
During the summer of 2015, Penn introduced a new online program for freshmen called Thrive at Penn.
01/28/16 5:05am
What is there to say about Winter Storm Jonas? Not very much on our campus. To go by the vista offered by High Rise Field on Saturday morning, no student could be rebuked for thinking we’d get to February before attending class again.
01/25/16 3:09am
Earlier this week, Kenny Jones — a former administrator in the Office for Fraternity and Sorority Life — was found to have misrepresented his academic credentials on multiple occasions.
12/08/15 5:33am
This year was an historic one, both at Penn and across the country.
12/03/15 6:04am
Amid the recent, mainly Republican, backlash against accepting Syrian refugees by many states, Governor Tom Wolf’s decision to allow refugees to settle in Pennsylvania is a refreshingly ethical decision in American politics today.
12/01/15 5:22am
Last year, the University revamped its sexual assault adjudication process in response to changes in federal guidelines for sexual assault on campus.
11/24/15 4:32am
Systemic racism at college campuses across the country was thrown into the spotlight two weeks ago, with protests at the University of Missouri and Yale demanding action to address the institutional marginalization of people of color.
02/09/15 5:32am
Fraternities are not guilt-free of partaking in the culture of excessive drinking and sexual misconduct, but we cannot expect to lay sanctions on them alone and consider the issue resolved. It is all too easy to lay the blame on the highly visible Greek societies that seem to dominate the social and party scene, but they are only part of the problem, not the problem itself.
