Spencer Swanson | Gone with the Wynn: Why Penn must tread lightly with the legacies of controversial alumni

By Spencer Swanson · Feb. 14, 2018

We must guard diligently against rewriting the past just to please the popular opinion of the day and to make people comfortable in contemporary society.

Isabella Simonetti | How hookup culture has stolen our manners

By Isabella Simonetti · Feb. 14, 2018

Making out, sex, and everything in between — all with no strings attached. Sounds perfect, right?     

Cassandra Jobman | Valentine's Day texting

By Cassandra Jobman · Feb. 13, 2018

CASSANDRA JOBMAN is a College freshman from Garland, Texas.

Kristen Yeh | Happy Valentine's Day from Benjamin Franklin

By Kristen Yeh · Feb. 13, 2018

KRISTEN YEH is a College freshman from West Covina, Calif. 

Lucy Hu | Fraternity pledging needs to end

By Lucy Hu · Feb. 12, 2018

Despite many fraternities’ cult-like efforts to keep pledging under wraps to avoid prosecution, most Penn students have heard accounts from pledges about sleepless nights, humiliating activities, and servant-type orders from pledge masters.

Jennifer Lee | To experience Philadelphia, Penn students need to ride SEPTA more

By Jennifer Lee · Feb. 12, 2018

Throughout the entire journey, from hopping onto a packed trolley car to emerging aboveground through the beautiful glass head house of Dilworth Park, I feel completely immersed in the Philadelphia community. 

Christine Olagun-Samuel | While you’re glued to your smartphone, Penn is passing you by

By Christine Olagun-Samuel · Feb. 11, 2018

The moment our phones are held up in our hands and our headphones in, walls are put up and barriers are created.

Veronica Fenton | Putin makes a statement

By Veronica Fenton · Feb. 11, 2018

VERONICA FENTON is a College freshman from Penn Valley, Pa.

Rebecca Alifimoff | For me, the CAPS referral process was barely better than Google

By Rebecca Alifimoff · Feb. 10, 2018

I went through an administrative process only to end with links to readily available databases. My CAPS experience wasn’t a referral as much as it was a brush-off.

Isabella Simonetti | Battling mental illness in my first year at Penn has made me stronger

By Isabella Simonetti · Feb. 9, 2018

No matter how much it’s stigmatized, how unusual it might be to be open to talking about it, my anxiety and depression have taught me to care for myself.

Kristen Yeh | Foles Commons

By Kristen Yeh · Feb. 8, 2018

KRISTEN YEH is a College freshman from West Covina, Calif.

Claudia Li | Penn's surprising pick for Commencement

By Claudia Li · Feb. 8, 2018

CLAUDIA LI is a College senior from Santa Clara, Calif.

Dylan Reim | You don't need Penn's permission to go the Super Bowl victory parade

By Dylan Reim · Feb. 7, 2018

I’m glad my decision to attend the parade won’t be hampered by a class absence, but if the parade were as important to me as it seems to be to some people, I’d happily chug a couple green beers, rub some dirt on that shiny attendance record, and go make memories. 

Sarah Khan | Super Bowl hype

By Sarah Khan · Feb. 7, 2018

SARAH KHAN is a College freshman from Lynn Haven, Fla. 

Calvary Rogers | Avoiding the bird’s eye view: integrating ourselves in Philadelphia

By Calvary Rogers · Feb. 6, 2018

I had the most fun I’ve ever had in this city. For the first time in my academic career here at Penn, I felt like a Philadelphian.

Editorial | Let Penn be a part of Philadelphia. Suspend U. operations for the Eagles parade.

By The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board · Feb. 6, 2018

By not suspending University operations, Penn — Philadelphia’s single largest private employer — isolates its community from the city at large. 

Alex Kuang | Penn students often ‘pull trig,’ but does this actually prevent nausea and hangovers?

By Alex Kuang · Feb. 6, 2018

Pulling trig has become the holy cure for a wild night of debauchery, but no one seems to know exactly what it does.