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02/04/19 2:37am

Editorial | Kaepernick hasn’t left. Neither should Penn’s criminal justice reform efforts.

While the Super Bowl may be the only time some pay attention to these issues, police brutality and structural racism are not distant phenomena for many on and near Penn’s campus.

02/04/19 1:03am

Guest Column by Abigail Swartz | Penn Nursing needs to require a class on LGBTQ healthcare

I don’t claim to be an expert on LGBTQ healthcare, but the fact still stands that important aspects of our education as caretakers are being allowed to fall by the wayside.

02/03/19 11:09pm

Lucy Hu | Spending a semester at Cambridge made me love Penn’s pre-professionalism

But when I peeled back the layers of historical extravagance, I realized that while the Ivy League evokes less Harry Potter imagery than Cambridge or Oxford, the actual learning experience may be more worth the prestige than the English schools.

02/02/19 6:57pm

Veronica Fenton | Nancy and Chuck make a bet

VERONICA FENTON is a College sophomore from Penn Valley, Pa. Her email address is fentonv@sas.upenn.edu.

02/02/19 6:38pm

Sophia DuRose | How to treat yourself at Penn

If we fall into cycles of pushing yourself too far, burning out, and then treating yourself to copious amounts of whatever it is that makes you feel temporarily better about yourself, the cycle will never end. Temporary relief is all you’ll ever feel.

01/31/19 3:00pm

Editorial | President Gutmann’s accomplishments justify her $3.9 million salary

While students don’t often see Gutmann on Locust Walk, aside from major capstone events in their Penn careers, she is clearly hard at work.

01/30/19 2:04am

Julia Mitchell | What Birthright taught me about Judaism at Penn

At Penn, blocking out Jewish life altogether is nearly impossible, especially since about 17% of undergrads identify as Jewish, but I still managed to do it first semester.

01/28/19 8:26pm

Editorial | In responding to Title IX changes, Penn needs to prioritize survivors

Penn has some flexibility in how it can implement the new regulations into University policy. In navigating the new guidelines, the administration must prioritize the rights of victims.

01/28/19 1:20am

Rebecca Alifimoff | A year after #MeToo, it feels like little has changed

The habits we form here at Penn — the things we chose to expect of our friends, the organizations we decided to be a part of, the behavior we tolerate on our campus — will shape the moral compasses that guide us through our infinitely more complicated post-graduate lives.

01/28/19 1:16am

Sophia DuRose | Toxic masculinity runs deeper than the Gillette ad

Men need to be encouraged to reveal the more vulnerable parts of themselves normally hidden by the steely outer layer of toxic masculinity.

01/28/19 1:06am

Ana West | Don't ignore the dangers of relationship violence at Penn

Many times, I’ve seen couples holding hands on Locust and thought about how perfect they must be together — that there was no danger there.

01/25/19 12:12am

Kaliyah Dorsey | What Kiese Laymon’s ‘Heavy’ taught me about vulnerability

I am surrounded every day by high-achieving students at what is often coined “the social Ivy,” which means that vulnerability isn’t high on anyone’s list of priorities, though almost everyone has to have struggled juggling social, personal, and academic expectations.