Guest Columns
Guest Column by Kenan Saleh | Professors, stop requiring expensive course materials
Professors frequently require the purchase of expensive textbooks and online course materials for students taking their class. This is a financial burden that disproportionately affects low-income students and significantly disadvantages those who are not able to afford them.
Guest Column by Ajjit Narayanan | Israeli apartheid: real, brutal, and deadly
As a state, Israel is open to the same critical lens as other nations, and as residents of the United States, the Israeli military’s largest financial supporter, we have a unique obligation to scrutinize its unjust policies.
Guest Column by Carl-Emmanuel Fulghieri | In defiance of ‘dialogue’: responding to Ariela Stein’s pro-Israel column
Ariela Stein’s column last week displays less an earnest desire to understand than a show of power, demanding parameters of discourse when her side already dominates effective speech.
Guest Statement by Jessica Lim | Open letter to the Class of 2019 on why I'm running for president
I am running for President because I’ve decided it is time that women get recognized for the work we’re doing. I’ve decided it is time that all of Class Board’s efforts, and the organizations we’ve partnered with, are acknowledged.
Guest Column by Ariela Stein | Penn Students for Justice in Palestine touts myth of apartheid during Passover
This event does not promote the mutual respect needed to have a productive conversation on achieving peace in the region.
Guest Statement by Robert J. Klopf III | Robert for UA President and Community
I am Robert John Klopf III and I am running for President of Undergraduate Assembly not because I care about the UA, but because I love Penn.
Guest Statement by Michael Krone and Jordan Andrews | For a better Penn: Michael and Jordan for UA
We want you to elect us as your Undergraduate Assembly President and Vice President because we are the most passionate and most qualified candidates, and we will work hard for a better Penn.
Guest Column by Rabbi Josh Bolton | 10 Passover lessons for Jews and non-Jews alike
The Pesach story is essential to an understanding of Jewish history and destiny, but some of its lessons would seem to be significant for anyone living through this frantic, globalized, postmodern moment.
Guest Column by Brown U. prof Glenn Loury | Reflections on my interview with Amy Wax
I believe that Dean Ruger's actions against Amy Wax at Penn Law — responding to public pressure no less — were reprehensible, and deserve to be condemned.
Letter from outgoing CAPS Director Bill Alexander | Look ahead to where you want to be
Rather than contribute to the volumes of verbiage that already take up so much space, and having listened to you for so many years, I thought I would just tell a story.
Guest Column by Celeste Marcus | Netwerk it — a world without inwardness
Pressure to prove that we are a profitable connection, that we may be useful to know, is ubiquitous. We commodify ourselves, our friends, even our families.
Guest Column by Career Services Director Patricia Rose | Advice for seniors still looking for jobs
If you were too busy to deal with the recruiting circus last fall, that’s OK. And if you did pursue positions and weren’t selected, don’t panic.
Guest Column by Penn Law School Alumnus Daniel Markind | The Amy Wax and Jonah Gelbach feud is unbecoming
Reading that open letter was the first time in the nearly 40 years I have been involved with Penn Law that I truly felt embarrassed for the institution.
Guest Column by Law Professor Jonah B. Gelbach | On Amy Wax’s credibility and conduct
I don’t know why Professor Wax has engaged in so much misleading conduct. Maybe it’s a clear-eyed scheme to con people who gullibly swallow any horror story about universities.
Guest Column | In light of the Taco Bell incident and where we go from here
When people respond to anti-Asian sentiment with anti-blackness, we distance ourselves further from combating white supremacy.
Guest Column by Penn Students Stand Against Gun Violence | It's time to act
Despite this widespread trauma and the demands that follow, our nation has yet to make real progress in enacting common sense gun reform.
Guest Column by Marissa Alexa McCool | Not all Monologues are universal
I was cast as a fill-in last year, and somehow in 17 years of the production, that was the first to include trans performers.
Guest Column by Shivani Prakash | What was missing from 34th Street's sorority recruitment feature
Women's empowerment is not deciding that the 200 women in certain organizations are beneath you and therefore not worth your time. If that was the type of “empowerment” the author was looking for, I do not believe that she would find it in the Panhellenic community.
Guest Column by Jamie-Lee Josselyn | For Blaze
I am going to miss Blaze deeply, more than I can adequately say. I will honor him every day by incorporating his values and his spirit, his Blaze-ness, into my own life and in my conversations with students.