Guest column by Rebecca Heilweil | Seldom making history: Penn's women need to speak up

By Rebecca Heilweil · Sept. 13, 2014

There is a problem when men dominate both the attendance and the questions of political on-campus events. There is a problem when women who hold leadership positions stick out because of their gender. There is a problem when girls like me, who rarely pay attention to these things, start to worry.

Editorial | Shooting down trigger warnings

By The Daily Pennsylvanian · Sept. 11, 2014

While personally traumatic experiences are important to address and treat on college campuses, trigger warnings are neither a fair nor sufficient solution to such issues and would ultimately serve to undermine the fundamental values of academia.

Katiera Sordjan | A year on leave

By Katiera Sordjan · Sept. 10, 2014

The hardest part of being on leave was dealing with the shame of what felt like such a heavy failure. To me, every day I wasn’t in class was another day that I was being idle. It didn’t matter how much I helped my family out around the house, how much I volunteered or how many doctor’s appointments I went to. If I wasn’t a student, if I wasn’t employed, I wasn’t a productive member of society — end of story.

Maya Rawal | Informed in isolation

By Maya Rawal · Sept. 10, 2014

I found myself relying on my friends majoring in international relations and political science — and various friends’ Facebook statuses — to learn about major world news. I was unaware of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 and the unfolding events of the Israel-Palestine conflict for hours or sometimes days after the fact.

Guest column by Allie Cohen | How social media shaped my 9/11 story

By Allie Cohen · Sept. 10, 2014

Last semester I took “Communication and the Presidency," taught by David Eisenhower in the Annenberg School. A hidden gem of Penn, the course provided a stipend to fly to any Presidential Library to do research for the course’s assignment of a 30-page paper. I flew to Dallas, Texas, where I studied George W. Bush’s epideictic rhetoric in his three major post-9/11 speeches.

Hannah Rosenfeld | Diseased by apathy

By hannah rosenfeld · Sept. 10, 2014

Hannah Rosenfeld is a College sophomore from Tokyo. Her email address is hannahro@sas.upenn.edu.

Anneka DeCaro | How to avoid unwanted attention on Locust

By Anneka DeCaro · Sept. 10, 2014

Anneka DeCaro is a College freshman. Her email address is annekaxiv@gmail.com.

Nick Moncy | Not according to plan

By nick moncy and Nick_Moncy · Sept. 9, 2014

Nick Moncy is a College junior from North Miami, Fla. His email address is nickmon@sas.upenn.edu. 

The Vision | Being an angel saved no one

By Nikki Hardison · Sept. 9, 2014

This ideology holds that if minorities would simply “respect themselves” by adopting the social and cultural standards of the dominant class, then and only then would they be privy to the full benefits and “respect” of all American society. This fallacy is not only wrong in that it puts the onus of racism on those stripped of power, but it is also elitist in its belief that pulled-up pants and collegiate degrees will somehow protect one from legalized suspicion and police violence.

Jeremiah Keenan | Maintaining monogamy

By Jeremiah Keenan · Sept. 9, 2014

The problem with random hook-ups is that they achieve, in one leap, a physical intimacy that we afterwards realize was based on a hormone rush or too much alcohol — not a real relationship.

Penn Dems | Cannabis prohibition: fiscally flawed, morally bankrupt

By Penn Democrats Executive Board · Sept. 9, 2014

The War on Drugs is a pandemic, and we do not pretend that these policies are a panacea. Still, the City Council’s and Sen. Leach’s prescriptive measures are steps in the right direction, and we can’t afford to miss the forest for the trees.

Dani Blum | Accepting Meh

By Dani Blum · Sept. 9, 2014

I don’t want to accept that Penn’s losing its sparkle. I want to re-believe in the glossy admissions brochure images I taped to my wall back home, and to not feel gypped when every day isn’t an adventure.

Sophia Wushanley | Alone, together

By Sophia Wushanley · Sept. 8, 2014

Texts and emails that replace mundane small talk and logistical planning aren’t depriving us of deep conversation. Who among us hasn’t complained about the shallowness of brief introductions and perfunctory pleasantries?

Ariel Koren and Joyce Kim | To run or not to run

By Ariel Koren and Joyce Kim · Sept. 7, 2014

If you aspire to improve student life from a policy perspective, if you want to work toward understanding and meeting the needs of dozens of student groups, if you’re interested in managing funds that impact the entire undergraduate student body and if you hope to consult the administration on issues that are central to every Quaker’s experience, run to be a part of the Undergraduate Assembly.

Akshat Shekhar | Not just another game

By Akshat Shekhar · Sept. 7, 2014

Overall, though, the student body does not fear missing out on athletic contests because the University refuses to treat sports as anything out of the ordinary. We all know athletes and wish them well, in the same way that we hope for the successes of our friends who are a cappella singers and dancers.

Jonathan Iwry | Cause for concern

By Jonathan Iwry · Sept. 7, 2014

We can’t go around pointing fingers and echoing vague yet provocative ideologies just because our fellow activists espouse those views. We must ask ourselves at each juncture, “Am I really informed enough to make these assertions?”

Shawn Kelley | Heads or Tails

By Shawn Kelley · Sept. 3, 2014

A student should have the creative thinking and communication skills required of a liberal arts major, as well as the critical thinking and technical knowledge of a STEM major.