CLAUDIA LI is a College junior from Santa Clara, Calif.
Shawn Srolovitz | Creating conversations on inclusive classrooms
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Shawn Srolovitz
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April 12, 2017
Last week, I had the opportunity to attend a seminar on inclusive teaching, hosted by the Center for Teaching and Learning — the group on campus charged with helping Penn instructors with their teaching and generally improving the quality of education at Penn.
I have never believed in a curving system when it comes to grading, and, similar to many, it was a rude awakening for me when I came to Penn.
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Amy Chan
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April 12, 2017
Hospital visits seem, to me, to always reinforce the necessity of human beings in each other’s lives.
When you hear Silicon Valley types discuss the colleges that produce the best and brightest of the startup world, Penn’s name is certainly mentioned.
BEN CLAAR is a College sophomore from Scarsdale, N.Y.
BEN CLAAR is a College sophomore from Scarsdale, N.Y.
Shawn Srolovitz | Creating conversations on inclusive classrooms
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Shawn Srolovitz
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April 12, 2017
Last week, I had the opportunity to attend a seminar on inclusive teaching, hosted by the Center for Teaching and Learning — the group on campus charged with helping Penn instructors with their teaching and generally improving the quality of education at Penn.
I have never believed in a curving system when it comes to grading, and, similar to many, it was a rude awakening for me when I came to Penn.
How can college students achieve their policy goals in the era of Trump? An overlooked answer lies in pursuing policy preferences in states legislatures and governor’s mansions.
BRAD HONG is a College freshman from Morristown, N.J.
BRYN FRIEDENBERG is a College junior from Kirtland, Ohio.
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!
I was struck by something Alec Baldwin said near the end of his talk at Penn on Friday. When asked what advice he would give to college students, Baldwin immediately replied that we ought to travel, to explore the world when we are single, young and free.
Cameron Dichter | Punishing students for peaceful demonstrations violates Penn’s principles
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Cameron Dichter
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April 9, 2017
Every one of us, no matter our political views, has a campus issue that we’re passionate about.
Like thousands of other students, I was added to the ‘Official Unofficial Penn Squirrel Catching Club” group on Facebook recently, and my news feed has since been flooded with memes about all things Penn.
GROUP THINK is the DP’s round table section, where we throw a question at the columnists and see what answers stick.
Penn can no longer claim to be doing all it can to be assembling the highest-quality class possible each year while drawing well more than half of its admittees from less than a sixth of the applicants. It is time to do away with Early Decision.
BEN CLAAR is a College sophomore from Scarsdale, N.Y.
I remember the spring of my senior year of high school visiting Makuu Black Cultural Center during Quaker days.
Emily Hoeven | Why we need to get serious about boycotting frat parties
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Emily Hoeven
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April 5, 2017
In my Africana Studies class, we talk a lot about perspective: how things that seem acceptable or normal to a society at a given point in history can often seem incomprehensible to that same society several generations later.
Calvary Rogers | A silent war: substance abuse and its interference with wellness
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Calvary Rogers
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April 4, 2017
Mental health. Two words every Penn student has heard before they set foot on Locust walk. We all know just how prevalent conversations about mental health have become and its relation to tragedy, campus culture and administration.
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