04/05/16 3:15am
On Friday, April 1, 2016, Philadelphia organizers, brought together by Penn SDS, shut down CIA Director John Brennan’s speech at the Penn Museum.
03/30/16 3:21am
Every year when UA elections come around, the student body is given the opportunity to elect a new President and Vice President.
03/30/16 3:20am
This week, we’re voting for Kat McKay and her running mate Sola to become the first all-female team to lead the UA.
03/28/16 4:14am
With the help of dedicated feminist leaders on campus, the Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies department has organized a robust leadership conference for this Friday, April 1.
03/24/16 3:36am
In typically delusional, short-sighted and hypocritical fashion, the Ivy League leadership has decided to follow the crowd and institute a conference tournament for men’s and women’s basketball.
03/01/16 3:07am
Africana Studies at Penn has at its center the study of Africa and peoples of African descent around the globe.
02/29/16 2:46am
Following the announcement of the closure of The Africa Center last spring, students mobilized in protest against what we rightly perceived as a marginalization of the study of an entire continent, its 1 billion people, their cultures, languages, histories, economies and institutions.
02/16/16 3:55am
As many of you already know, there is ongoing campaign to convince Penn to divest its endowment from fossil fuels, or in other words, to eliminate all of the University’s investments in the coal, oil, and gas companies that pollute the atmosphere and cause climate change.
02/10/16 5:13am
My experiences within the Jewish community at Penn have almost exclusively pertained to politics and religion.
01/28/16 5:06am
Israel is often misrepresented at Penn. Whether through the placement of black flags on College Green or the construction of an “apartheid wall” in front of Van Pelt Library, Israel is depicted as an abominable tyrant and the substantive facts of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are deemed insignificant.
01/21/16 4:29am
There is a line of reasoning that goes as follows: playing the Powerball lottery may not make much financial sense, but the joy you get from dreaming about winning over a billion dollars is well worth the $2.
01/19/16 1:16am
The idea that Donald Trump speaks for white American men or Wharton grads or even all Republicans is absurd. Equally absurd is the idea that the beliefs and dispositions of all Muslims are represented by the images and videos of terrorists we are constantly exposed to in our media feeds.
12/03/15 6:02am
As I realize what I am about to say, I can practically feel the earth shake as bra-burners of days gone by turn in their graves.
11/30/15 5:41am
After three months of deliberation, Penn administrators have agreed to take substantial steps forward in making Penn a healthier campus.
11/30/15 5:39am
I don’t get why, as Americans, we have become so terrified of people speaking their minds simply because it may offend someone.
11/20/15 8:00pm
“Death is not a conclusion.”
These are words I heard and wrote down a few weeks ago, when I watched Jean-Luc Godard’s film “Contempt.” Today, they resonate more than ever.
11/16/15 6:01am
It was supposed to be an ordinary Friday of going out with friends and enjoying city I have come to call home these past months.
11/11/15 4:04am
While we understand that you find the survey results deeply troubling, many students have shared that the manner in which the results were addressed made them feel more like statistics than people.
10/28/15 3:20am
Penn employees cook your meals, these employees haul your trash. These employees teach your students, they collect your scientific data, they clear leaves on Locust Walk.
10/28/15 3:15am
Recently, negative talk surrounding fraternities and sororities raises questions about why we are relevant.
