As the Spring semester continues to unfold, there are a number of changes that we, as students, are confronted with.
To fellow PPE majors - have you noticed just how difficult it is to explain the major to non-Penn people?
LANGSTON MACDIARMID is an Engineering senior from Pittsburgh, PA.
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Sriram Sridharan
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Feb. 12, 2017
As a member of a community that prides itself for being at the forefront of the progressive, intellectual movement and someone who recognizes the real harms of socio-economic privilege, I feel compelled to respond to the article.
After discussing, in the latter portion of my previous column, the professional troll that is Breitbart Tech Editor Milo Yiannopoulos, I was sincerely intending to pick a more pleasant topic for this week.
CLAUDIA LI is a College junior from Santa Clara, Calif.
CLAUDIA LI is a College junior from Santa Clara, Calif.
To fellow PPE majors - have you noticed just how difficult it is to explain the major to non-Penn people?
LANGSTON MACDIARMID is an Engineering senior from Pittsburgh, PA.
As the leaders of Penn’s largest political organization, the Government & Politics Association, we decided not to co-sponsor the March for Immigrants held to condemn President Trump’s recent string of executive orders.
BEN CLAAR is a College sophomore from Scarsdale, N.Y.
It’s only my third column of the semester, and I am already wracking my brains to think of something to write about.
James Fisher | From the bottom of the barrel to Penn: Already at a disadvantage
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James Fisher
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Feb. 8, 2017
The minute I stepped out of my uncle’s car and arrived at Harrison College House, I should have known that my life would change forever.
BRAD HONG is a College freshman from Morristown, N.J.
Commencement should, in our view, aim to broaden the horizons of departing students one last time – to be one last lesson before graduates leave the academic sphere.
Allyship is not found in those who wear a safety pin, but in those who dedicate their efforts towards diminishing the inequities that cause protests in the first place.
BRYN FRIEDENBERG is a College junior from Kirtland, Ohio.
On Monday, 97 Companies issued a joint statement going against the “Muslim Ban” executive order.
Michael Palamountain | An appreciation of labor and a critique of leisure
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Michael Palamountain
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Feb. 6, 2017
Despite the title, this article will not serve as some sort of rallying cry to raise the minimum wage nor will it attempt to explain the complicated nature of universal basic income.
CLAUDIA LI is a College junior from Santa Clara, Calif.
One week after his inauguration, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order indefinitely halting the resettlement of Syrian refugees and temporarily banning people from seven Muslim-majority nations from traveling into the United States.
“We cannot buy our security, our freedom from the threat of the bomb by committing an immorality so great as saying to a billion human beings now enslaved behind the Iron Curtain: give up your dreams of freedom, because to save our own skins, we're willing to make a deal with your slave masters.” – Ronald Reagan, 1964 Today, we face a different enemy, with different victims, and a different immorality.
GROUP THINK is The DP’s round table section, where we throw a question at the columnists and see what answers stick.
