Guest Columns
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.
Guest Column by Jay Shah | Reminder to upperclassmen: we were all freshmen once
Freshmen are often shocked to learn that there lies a multi-step process for them to find their home.
Guest Column by Amy Wax | In response to "Open letter to the University of Pennsylvania community"
The Daily Pennsylvanian letter on my recent op-ed, signed by some of my colleagues, puts forth no substantive argument and so requires no response on that score
Guest Column by Jack Hostager & Sharon Christner | Philadelphia, heroin and you
Between August 22 and 28, while Penn freshmen enjoyed a gala at the art museum and Penn-themed ice sculptures, an estimated 23 people died from a drug overdose in the city of Philadelphia.
Guest Column by 33 Penn Law faculty members | Open letter to the University of Pennsylvania community
We write to condemn recent statements our colleague, Amy Wax, the Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at Penn Law, has made in popular media pieces.
Guest Column by Amy Gutmann | Our community is our strength
At the beginning of this new academic year, I hope we all take a few moments to celebrate our campus community as the best and, ultimately, the only way forward to a better world.
Guest Column by Olivia Harding | One year on: We're still workers and we will win
Exactly one year ago, in its Columbia University decision, the National Labor Relations Board reconciled a decades-long inconsistency in employment law.
Guest Column by 54 Penn students & alumni | Statement on Amy Wax and Charlottesville
We, a group of Penn alumnae and current students, wish to address white supremacist violence and discourse in America.
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.