With Thanksgiving as our ultimate feast of gratitude, here’s a toast to all my professors who have nurtured my inchoate mind.
If meaningful change is to occur, it will take the work of more than just administrators.
We do believe that there are significant shortcomings in the existing housing system.
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To focus on skin color or ethnicity as the lone proxy for diversity is naive, only setting us back in thought to an era when the masses believed blacks had fundamentally distinct physical and mental capacities than whites.
The complaints about hormonal birth control pills are extensive: They make women feel moody, bloated, tired, excessively horny, nauseous and so much more.
Robert Frost erred when he said to take the path less traveled — always travel in herds, and don’t look around.
Robert Frost erred when he said to take the path less traveled — always travel in herds, and don’t look around.
If meaningful change is to occur, it will take the work of more than just administrators.
We do believe that there are significant shortcomings in the existing housing system.
Ford’s supporters seem to forget that this wasn’t a legally ambiguous sex(ting) scandal — it was an elected official breaking the law by abusing a banned substance.
A few days ago, I had a deep conversation with a friend — something that I had been missing for a while.
Penn Secular Society takes our role as a secular group very seriously, and the majority of our activities are aimed at providing a community for the irreligious.
It’s great to know that the healthcare.gov site is working for the massive 1.6 percent of the population that is running Linux.
At Penn, I am continually impressed with the accomplishments of my fellow students but often underwhelmed by their ability to justify why those accomplishments and causes are important.
It seems that, especially on a college campus, reading for pleasure has become a rare activity.
Guest Column by the University Honor Council | Disciplinary process demystified
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University Honor Council
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Nov. 7, 2013
In light of the recent conversation on campus surrounding sexual violence, we wish to make Penn students aware of their rights and options.
Letter to the Editor | To the defacers of Penn Secular Society’s poster…
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Josh Cooper
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Nov. 7, 2013
I beg the defacers of Penn Secular Society’s poster to please stop.
The Penn Secular Society wants everyone to stop believing in G-d because, well, because they don’t believe in G-d.
Guest Column by Jai Dehadrai | Beyond the rule of law: A valuable lesson
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Jai Dehadrai
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Nov. 7, 2013
Part-time professor and full-time trial attorney, professor Shanin Specter lays threadbare the secrets that have led him to become one of America’s finest lawyers — and perhaps the most respected as well.
To declare e-cigarettes a silver bullet to smoking simply because it is the lesser of two evils is to blatantly ignore the lessons we have learned from tobacco control.
Actively engaging, instead of the one-sided cyberstalking that we’re wont to do, can help tame the feelings of insanity, jealousy and powerlessness that come from seeing our exes all over the internet.
I fail to understand why freshmen need to be prevented from living in the high rises, as if living in the high rises were the death knell for a freshman’s college experience.
As Penn’s leaders consider ways to improve first-year housing, implementing a one-size-fits-all approach and banning freshmen from Harrison or Harnwell College House (or low-rise buildings like Stouffer College House) seems like an easy solution. But it’s the wrong one.
