Guest Columns
Guest Column by William Snow | Penn students must rethink the college-to-consulting pipeline
Why are juniors and seniors spending 90 percent of their free time casing and networking and attending info sessions? Why aren’t we contemplating what we really want out of life, and how we can achieve it?
Guest Column by Abhi Hendi | Friends, Quakers, Countrymen, lend me your ears
My parents took a risk. Two freshly minted Ph.D.'s, raised in poverty, leaving their home country, coming to America.
Guest Column by five Penn Law professors | Notions of 'bourgeois' cultural superiority are based on bad history
In the recent opinion article “Paying the price for breakdown of the country's bourgeois culture,” published in the Philadelphia Inquirer, law professors Amy Wax and Larry Alexander lament the loss of the “bourgeois cultural hegemony” of the 1950s.
Guest Column by Dean of Penn Law School Ted Ruger | On Charlottesville, free speech and diversity
As a community and as individuals we are shocked and saddened by the deadly, violent events in Charlottesville yesterday, and we grieve for the victims and their families.
Guest Column | Why doctors need to look past the stats
“You have two months left to live.” The doctor delivered the words with a steel, monotone voice without looking up from his computer.
Guest Column | Confronting Radical Islam
After the recent atrocities in Westminster, Manchester, and London, the politically correct in the United Kingdom and the world are yet again fully engaged in assiduously ignoring the threat we all face. The facts are as plain as they are uncomfortable — the world is currently living through an unprecedented threat, a modern enemy fighting for an archaic, theocratic vision that president George W.
Guest Column | Graduate students are workers — let us vote
As a graduate student worker at the University of Pennsylvania, I research the politics of emotion as a member of the political science department.
Guest Column |Reflections of a Penn community organizer, W‘67
On May 13, an article in the Daily Pennsylvanian discussed my intention to create a conversation over alumni weekend about President Trump’s association with the University, by wearing and offering pins that said “UPenn: Denounce Trump.” The online commentary mostly deplored my action, calling button bearers “snowflakes” and “adult children”. One said, “Most universities would be PROUD.” They deserve a response. As a 50 year student of administrative science, I felt that Penn needed a “system power move”. (Defn: a high leverage, small action that makes a difference; exemplar: Pussy Riot.) I wanted reiterate the demand made by many others that the University to take a stand on Trump.
Guest Column | Wharton faculty urge Congress and the Courts to defend the rule of law
President Trump appears to have an indifferent, if not downright disdainful, attitude to the rule of law.
Guest Statement | An open letter to legislators and others to support the rule of law
The economic system of free enterprise and our cherished democratic institutions depend on the certainty, stability, integrity, and legitimacy provided by the rule of law.
Guest Column by Jeremiah Keenan | (Un)fit arbiters of free speech
In last Wednesday’s paper Calvary Rogers argued in favor of increasing soft censorship in America and at Penn.
Guest Column by John Holloway and Paul Heaton | In defense of the Quattrone Center
The Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice is a nonpartisan, national research and policy hub producing and disseminating research designed to prevent errors in the criminal justice system.
Guest Column by Zach Rissman | The People’s Climate Movement and why it’s more about the “people” than the “climate”
On April 29th, as part of the People’s Climate Movement, over 100,000 people will gather to march in Washington DC to demonstrate widespread and overwhelming support for immediate and drastic climate action.
Guest Column by Ben Gargano | A call to my fellow members of the liberal echo chamber
Consider three individuals: a terrorist, whose indoctrination and violent actions result from a constant reminder throughout his upbringing of Western injustices and transgressions; a slavery apologist, who lives in the antebellum South, and validates his ideals by the norms and conventions of the time; an American who supports gun control, Keynesian economics, and a woman’s right to an abortion, but developed these beliefs solely through having friends and family affirm the “moral correctness” of these notions.
Guest Column by Blair Bowie | To John Legend: Make sure the reform is real
Penn Law recently announced that musician, activist, and Penn alum John Legend will join the advisory board of the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice.
Guest Column by Sonari Chidi | Unfinished business
If a person has not flung open the window of a campus building to angrily yell “YOU HATE ME!” at you, while you are still reeling from invitations to scheduled public lynchings of African American freshmen and marching peacefully to raise awareness, then welcome to the reality of race relations in the era of 45!
Guest Column by Zach Rissman | Behind closed doors: Sit-in negotiations and Penn’s blatant hypocrisy
The University of Pennsylvania, claiming to value collaboration and logic, acted extremely hypocritically throughout the negotiations during the Fossil Free Penn sit-in.
Guest Column by Vinayak Kumar | A Physics Perspective to Identity Politics
There is a lot of hot debate between the political left and right about social justice issues, and a particularly concentrated debate in higher education institutions.
Guest Column by Thomas Lee | Anti-intellectualism against divestment is dangerous
The exchange of ideas, through testing assumptions and addressing conflicting evidence, is the intellectual core of Penn’s academic mission.