Guest Columns
36 Penn Faculty | Letter in support of the Palestine Writes Literature Festival
36 Penn faculty members sign a letter in support of the Palestine Writes Literature Festival.
Tara Tarawneh | Palestine Writes: Why Penn should protect its students from colonial backlash
Guest Columnist Tara Tarawneh argues that the Palestine Writes Literature Festival has been facing undue backlash, subjecting Arab and Palestinian students at Penn to an extremely harmful narrative.
Madison Weiss | Campus Apartments' rampant history of code violations
Guest columnist Madison Weiss discusses poor conditions in housing managed by Adelman's company and Adelman's push to build the 76ers stadium.
Farah Sayed | Penn must provide immediate support to sexual assault survivors
Guest Columnist Farah Sayed exposes the neglectful and inconsiderate treatment she received from Penn after surviving a sexual assault.
Aidan Nash | Life beyond Locust: The disappearing act of upperclassmen engagement
Guest columnist Aidan Nash examines the decline of upperclassmen engagement at Penn, and what the administration can do to increase it.
Amy C. Offner and Emily Steinlight | Faculty should not participate in Penn’s anti-union campaigns
Guest columnists and professors Amy C. Offner and Emily Steinlight argue that Penn’s anti-union campaigns aim to interfere with workers’ right to organize, and that they threaten faculty members’ ability to do their jobs with integrity.
Suhani Patel | Why we should have a mandatory CIS class at Penn
Guest columnist Suhani Patel recommends adding a mandatory introductory computer science class to Penn's general education curriculum.
Daniel Gurevitch | The Freshman 15
Guest columnist and College senior Daniel Gurevitch offers offbeat advice to the incoming class of 2027.
Liz Magill | An Ethos of Service at Penn
Penn President Liz Magill welcomes students back for another school year at Penn and celebrates leaders in Penn’s community.
Claire Baptiste | Penn must address the e-scooter epidemic on campus
Guest columnist Claire Baptiste argues the safety concerns with e-scooters on campus, while urging Penn to address them.
Jessica Gooding | The Supreme Court is wrong, race always matters
Jessica Gooding argues that participating in a facade that denies the reality of being Black in America serves to only further the illusion of meritocracy and solidify discrimination.
Surayya Walters | Affirmative action was never the problem
Surayya Walters unearths her perspective and story behind the affirmative action verdict.
Timethius J. Terrell | Penn student organizers need formal training
Timethius J. Terrell invites Penn student organizers to facilitate open training sessions to teach their peers to plan direct actions, protests, and other forms of activism.
Graduate Student Government Leaders | A Real Seat at Penn’s Table
Graduate student government leaders encourage Penn to improve its shared governance structures.
Jonathan Zisk | The City Wants to Buy SEPTA Passes for Employees: When will Penn?
Jonathan Zisk argues why Penn should provide free SEPTA passes to the Penn faculty, staff and students.
Students for the Preservation of Chinatown | We must stand up with Chinatown against the 76ers arena proposal
Students for the Preservation (SPOC) joins the Save Chinatown Coalition to oppose 76ers’ arena proposal that threatens to endanger and displace Chinatown, calling on Penn to cut their business ties with the 76ers’ developers and to stand with Chinatown by publicly denouncing the arena proposal.
Omar Khodor and Sage Lincoln | Penn’s Director of City Relations seeks to silence environmental justice advocates
Guest columnists Omar Khodor and Sage Lincoln shed light on a Penn administrator’s influence at PGW and its attempts to prevent local groups from participating in its budget decisions.
Kampton Kam | International students deserve access to NIL deals too
Guest columnist Kampton Kam calls on students to support equitable access to Name, Image, and Likeness funding for international students.
106 Penn Faculty and AAUP-Penn | Letter in support of the RA unionization campaign
106 Penn faculty members and AAUP-Penn sign a letter in support of the unionization efforts of Penn's Resident Advisors and Graduate Resident Advisors.