Arjun Gupta | Silly freshmen, naivete is for us

By Arjun Gupta · Dec. 9, 2013

In some ways, being at the bottom of the pole is a blessing. You can ask a million stupid questions and mess up, but it’s OK. The worst you’ll get is, “Silly freshman.”

Ryan Daniels | ?Nodding at nature

By Ryan Daniels · Dec. 9, 2013

Consumer products are beginning to improve our lives while keeping in mind natural necessities.

Rachel del Valle | All I want for Christmas

By Rachel del Valle · Dec. 9, 2013

One of my idealized markers of maturity is the ability to give meaningful, interesting presents to people I love. Right now, I’m not really there.

Guest column by Alexandra Friedman | My large, extended family

By Alexandra Friedman · Dec. 8, 2013

Throughout the last four months, I have been fed, driven, housed, paid for and taken care of by the people of Israel, lending real meaning to the idea of people who “would give you the shirt off their back.”

Jeff Nadel | Youtube pranksters gone good

By Jeff Nadel · Dec. 8, 2013

In other words, through our viewership — which is a market signal — and the revenue it generates, we drive and make possible these wonderful acts of charity.

Letter from the editor | Matters of opinion

By Jennifer Sun · Dec. 5, 2013

The alternative to publishing Clarissa’s column would have been to reject her application because her views strayed too far from the norm on campus.

Robert Hsu | Excuses no more

By Robert Hsu · Dec. 5, 2013

As we go through college, we seem to lose these moments of intense learning fueled by our curiosity, with no career strings attached.

Arielle Pardes | What's your number?

By Arielle Pardes · Dec. 4, 2013

When we lie about our numbers, we simply reinforce those tired gender stereotypes and the problematic binary that establishes women as either promiscuous or prudish.

Sindhuri Nandhakumar | Destined to die

By Sindhuri Nandhakumar · Dec. 4, 2013

But I’ve been fed too many movies and stories where couples say to each other, “I can’t live without you,” or “I’d die without you.”

Guest Column by Akiva Sanders | A shift in the conversation

By Akiva Sanders · Dec. 4, 2013

When any empathetic person views the perpetual fear of living in the West Bank — or Intifada Israel, for that matter — pure outrage is difficult to suppress.

Ryan Daniels | Close encounters with foreign minds

By Ryan Daniels · Dec. 3, 2013

The absence of understanding is not just misinformation, but with delicate foreign relations issues, often trepidation or hate.

Ali Kokot and Hayley Brooks | Fancy some formality?

By Ali Kokot and Hayley Brooks · Dec. 3, 2013

Many of the flaws we millennials are accused of — from being perpetually rude to being lost on the romantic front — might be helped with a spoonful of etiquette to serve as our guide.

Guest Column by Shlomo Klapper | The falsehoods of 'From Palestine to Penn'

By Shlomo Klapper · Dec. 2, 2013

I don’t know how else to say this: Many of O’Conor’s “facts” don’t exist.

Clarissa O'Conor | Thanksgiving in Palestine

By Clarissa O'Conor · Dec. 2, 2013

While we may oftentimes be oblivious to how our existence on this land is predicated on the ethnic cleansing of indigenous peoples, we should not be blind to the fact that the same process is happening now.

JY Lee | What I believe

By JY_Lee · Dec. 1, 2013

I joined a Buddhist ashram in India, worshipped with Jews in Jerusalem and devoured agnostic and atheistic literature. Like the prodigal son, however, I always returned home to church.