Editorial | With Adichie, Penn finally moves towards more diverse commencement speakers

By The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board · Feb. 12, 2020

While Penn’s choices of commencement speakers over the last four decades reflect an unfortunate lack of diversity, this year's choice of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie shows Penn leaning toward more progressive and diverse candidates.

Editorial | Why Penn students should pack the Palestra

By The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board · Feb. 9, 2020

Students should recognize the historic value of the Palestra and attend games to give support to Penn's basketball teams.

Editorial | Divesting from fossil fuels would save Penn money

By The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board · Feb. 5, 2020

Penn fails its students, faculty, staff, and alumni by investing its multi-billion endowment in ways that will likely provide a lower financial return than it could with fossil fuel divestment.  

Editorial | Bernie Sanders is the best candidate to defeat Trump

By The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board · Feb. 2, 2020

Voters will have the opportunity to cast their ballots for many candidates associated with Penn in the 2020 primary and general elections. The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board recommends picking none of them. 

Editorial | Penn’s general education requirements shouldn’t be so hard to fulfill

By The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board · Jan. 29, 2020

The University should offer more courses, and a variety of them, that fulfill each sector or foundational requirement to make it easier for undergraduates to explore different topics throughout their time at Penn.

Editorial | Students in Greek life must support CAFSA’s mission of stopping sexual assault

By The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board · Jan. 26, 2020

Someone can be a Greek life member and think that Locust Walk should represent more diverse interests. 

Editorial | Penn’s meal swipe system is failing its students

By The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board · Jan. 22, 2020

Penn Dining should make meal swipes more useful to students by accepting them in more locations and letting them roll over from semester to semester. 

Editorial | Penn, don't be embarrassed by Trump's impeachment. Instead, engage politically

By The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board · Jan. 20, 2020

Instead of passively lamenting Trump’s Penn affiliation, students should use impeachment as an opportunity to fight for policies they believe in. 

Editorial | Greek life gives students a social outlet. Penn's clubs should learn from this

By The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board · Jan. 14, 2020

Campus groups should learn from Greek life and work to strengthen their internal cultures so they can provide more outlets for finding a community at Penn.

Editorial | International and LPS students deserve need-blind admissions

By The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board · Dec. 10, 2019

Penn should extend the current need-blind application process for students in the United States, Canada, and Mexico to LPS and international applicants. 

Editorial | Penn security guards are not paid $15 per hour. It's time to raise their wages.

By The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board · Dec. 8, 2019

Penn must pay workers the living wage that they deserve and that is now mandated by the city.

Editorial | Penn students must boycott McKinsey in light of its work with ICE

By The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board · Dec. 5, 2019

It is incumbent upon Penn students to hold the consulting firm accountable and refuse to participate in its recruiting in the future.

Editorial | Penn students, donate unwanted items this holiday season

By The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board · Dec. 1, 2019

This holiday season, donate belongings that no longer bring you any use to not only reduce the waste we produce, but also so someone else in need can stay warm this winter.

Editorial | Penn should add an extra day to Thanksgiving break

By The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board · Nov. 25, 2019

To promote student well being and allow students greater travel flexibility, Penn must expand this break by adding the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.

Editorial | Penn football has one shot to defeat Princeton. Students must show up.

By The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board · Nov. 20, 2019

Even more important than its own season, Penn football has a chance to spoil rival Princeton's year, and will need the support of Penn students to do it. 

Editorial | Faculty have a responsibility to support student activism

By The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board · Nov. 17, 2019

Any faculty at Penn that are still avoiding critical debates on our campus, like the fight for a graduate student union or payments in lieu of taxes, should take a lesson from the faculty and students willing to protest for a better future, and step off the sidelines. 

Editorial | Listen to student voices. Make midterm evaluations mandatory.

By The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board · Nov. 13, 2019

To better support students and promote educational practices that work for everyone, Penn should mandate that professors and TAs be evaluated in the middle of the term as well.