Opinion-Columns
Aya Saed | Tackling the deathly issue
Penn students are eager to integrate themselves into the community and ensure that things change for the better. But it’s time to also gather momentum in combating an issue of life and death.
Ernest Owens | The 20-Year-Old-Virgin
Although I do not ever intend to be the national spokesperson for Abstinence America, I do not see anything wrong with the campus promoting this ideal as much as they do contraceptives at the Penn Women’s Center or the LGBT Center.
Sally Engelhart | Making the choice to be happy
We are actually happier when we have limited options.
Robert Hsu | Why music has hit a low note
I may be a disillusioned music-purist who needs to face the music, but I see a troubling trend that is set to ruin an art form I revere greatly.
Hayley Brooks & Ali Kokot | Get low? Hell no.
With every basement encounter, we fall further and further from engaging each other in a meaningful way. More often than not, you don’t even face your partner.
Kyle Henson | Education, not indoctrination
We don’t spend $50,000 a year over four years just to read textbooks and have our beliefs reinforced. We want to hear brilliant opinions and arguments from our professors.
Brian Goldman | Put an end to 'Prohiboozetion'
With the recent closing of Fine Wine & Good Spirits on 41st and Market streets, our campus has reverted to its Prohibition-era existence.
Rachel del Valle | Reshuffling the race card
In the U.S., race is a trick question. I don’t know what the solution is, but I do know that our current system isn’t working. If Hispanics hope to gain the political influence to correspond with their growing population, we need to be counted as something distinct.
Ernest Owens | Recycling our wasteful addiction
We Penn students pride ourselves on how green we think we are, but — in actuality — our efforts are not as effective as we all assume.
Alice Lee | Save the internet, #StopSOPA
If the Stop Online Privacy Act passed and went into effect, I think I would miss Kanye West’s tweets the most.
Joseph An | The truth behind 'Shit Girls Say'
If these videos exclusively targeted one particular group or gender, I would have questioned their humor. But as it turns out, just about everyone says that are worth making fun of.
Charles Gray | State of the school's hidden waste
Last semester, at the annual State of the School event hosted at the Penn Museum, the problem of fiscal abuse by those in charge of our funds reared its ugly head at Penn.
Samantha Sharf | The problem doesn't stop with porn
The problem doesn’t stop with porn. As early as next year, web addresses can read something.anything. Imagine, penn.university or DP.newspaper.
Brian Goldman | Gluing back the shattered glass
Certain crimes merit punishment with no second chances. But what Stephen Glass killed was journalism’s code of ethics: a set of principles, not a body or a mind.
Ernest Owens | Not another black guy at Penn
So here is a toast to not conforming. To anyone who is striving to look at the bigger picture rather than just zoom in on the colors, thank you.
Sally Engelhart | Drug abusers in denial
If you use prescription drugs incorrectly, you are drug user. There are no two ways about it.
Sara Brenes-Akerman | Reconciling a tale of two cities
Costa Rica’s status as a tourist’s paradise has made it a divided country — one that leads a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde type of existence.
Robert Hsu | Diversifying our definitions
Diversity is multi-dimensional, and we overlook the fact that it encompasses all aspects of our lives, including our religion, socioeconomic status, intelligence, hobbies and interests.