Today’s column is a love letter to avoidance. Today, we are here to talk about “ghosting.” To quote Google, ghosting is “the practice of ending a personal relationship with someone by suddenly and without explanation withdrawing from all communication.” I would like to note that this definition refers not just to romantic relationships, but all personal relationships, and that the definition could lend itself to mutual detachment.
As a member of the track team, my first experience with the Penn track team was outside on a brisk sunny day in late August.
BRAD HONG is a College freshman from Morristown, N.J.
To all my black queer students at Penn, I just wanted to say: I love you. And that's it. This is not a piece proposing solutions.
In the wake of the inauguration of 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump to the Presidency of the United States, Penn faces an institutional dilemma.
In the wake of the inauguration of 1968 Wharton graduate Donald Trump to the Presidency of the United States, Penn faces an institutional dilemma.
As a member of the track team, my first experience with the Penn track team was outside on a brisk sunny day in late August.
BRAD HONG is a College freshman from Morristown, N.J.
For the last month, whenever someone has asked me, “What are you up to?” I’ve always given them the same reply: “I’m studying for the MCAT.” God only knows how many conversations I’ve defaulted to that lazy small talk. Sitting for the MCAT is a notable event that many students study several months for.
Year after year stories reach the news about sexual assault on college campuses across the US. Yet my response remains different than the narratives I see presented by the media.
BRYN FRIEDENBERG is a College junior from Kirtland, Ohio.
GROUP THINK is The DP’s round table section, where we throw a question at the columnists and see what answers stick.
CLAUDIA LI is a College junior from Santa Clara, Calif. Her email is claudli@sas.upenn.edu.
Few focal points of the Republican presidential cycle stood out with as much singularity and clarity as the promise to “repeal and replace” Obamacare, a rallying cry for many of the Trump electorate, regardless of class, race, gender.
Although the University denied knowledge of any Penn staff being instructed to interfere with the protests, a FRES worker running the engine of a noisy maintenance vehicle at the site of one of the demonstrations said he had been instructed to drown out the protesters by someone from the University.
BEN CLAAR is a College sophomore from Scarsdale, N.Y.
Tomorrow, at around noon, Donald Trump will become the President of the United States. The bombastic billionaire, whose improbable promotion to power shattered every political norm from fundraising to gaffe-making, will assume the most important political office on earth.
I once wrote an article in which I refused to give up red lipstick despite surrendering eye makeup, and, with all the misogyny to which Trump's election has set us back, I think it's about time I explained why. What got me started thinking about it was a statement my friend made to me.
Have you ever bitten into a piece of pizza in a Dining Hall that you knew was too hot and burned your tongue?
Our country faces a crisis that begins with the letter “D.” No, it is not our President-elect Donald Trump.
BRAD HONG is a College freshman from Morristown, N.J.
This semester will be my last one at Penn. I recently discovered that I have accumulated enough credits to graduate a year in advance.
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