Guest Columns
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.
Guest Column by Rohan Alur | Lessons of Penntrification should inform Phila.’s Amazon pitch
With a planned 50,000 employees at its new headquarters, Amazon would quickly displace Penn as the city’s largest private employer.
Guest Column by Madeline Fagen, Alisha Chowdhury & Dawit Gebresellassie | Make giving a daily habit
We must incorporate giving into our daily lives, promote its significance, and engage in it regularly so we can foster a more unified, empathetic, and civic-minded generation.
Guest Column by Frank Broomell | Don't idolize Chelsea Manning. Others deserve a voice.
When Chelsea Manning speaks at the Annenberg Center on November 29, the Penn campus will be missing out on an opportunity.
Guest Column by Miru Osuga | A call for more equitable classrooms
Academia does not exist in a vacuum of the University; it is full of real people bringing their own real biases into this space.
Guest Column by Edward Jing | We need to address club recruitment processes
The club recruitment process is one of the first stressors that new students encounter when they arrive at Penn, and it has wide-ranging effects on both student life and mental health.
Guest Column by Celeste Marcus | Communities of certainty
College students, whether they are secular or religious, are religious. That is, they have dogmas, cults, temples, scriptures, prooftexts, prophets, methods of absolution, and methods of excommunication.
Guest Column by Blaze Bernstein | A task force on alienation and incompetence
To error is to be human; but to be a Penn administrator is to never learn from those mistakes.