Guest Column by Dylan Hewitt and Claire Shimberg | SNAP back to reality

By Dylan Hewitt & Claire Shimberg · Nov. 24, 2013

In anticipation of the upcoming holiday season, we decided to take the SNAP challenge — a commitment to only spend $31.50 on food for the entire week.

Jeff Nadel | Hooray for humiliated government

By Jeffrey Nadel · Nov. 24, 2013

This Thanksgiving, I say we should be deeply thankful for the sheer ineptitude of the state.

Rachel del Valle | Know thy selfie

By Rachel del Valle · Nov. 24, 2013

As you may or may not have already heard, the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year is “selfie.”

Kurt Mitman | Back to reality

By Kurt Mitman · Nov. 21, 2013

Certain forms of reality TV actually have the potential to affect my reality — and to make it a better one.

Robert Hsu | Regrading ourselves

By Robert Hsu · Nov. 21, 2013

Allowing exam regrades is an important part of a fair grading system, but we as students must reevaluate our attitude towards them and be more selective when requesting them.

Guest Column by Geeta Aneja | Open minds, working faith

By Geeta Aneja · Nov. 19, 2013

Perhaps it is time to ask ourselves why we react so emotionally when our faith is questioned. Why we immediately become defensive and allow it to “ruin our day.”

Sindhuri Nandhakumar | Gastronomic gutcheck

By Sindhuri Nandhakumar · Nov. 19, 2013

I think we overspend a lot of our money on food. Yes, a sandwich from Houston Market is convenient, but do we really need to be spending six or seven dollars on an uninspired meal every day?

Ryan Daniels | Hot for cold calls

By Ryan Daniels · Nov. 18, 2013

So in a recent lecture, where class-directed question after class-directed question went unanswered, floating over the turned-down heads of slouching students, I couldn’t help but wonder: What ever happened to cold-calling?

Guest Column by Jennie Shulkin | A community divided

By Jennie Shulkin · Nov. 18, 2013

Even if I was able to obtain on-campus housing this past year, though, the diversity that was present in the freshman dorms would be non-existent.

Editorial | Defacement isn’t discourse

By The Daily Pennsylvanian · Nov. 17, 2013

Those who disagree certainly have a right to protest Penn Secular Society, but we would encourage them to find more productive ways of protest.

Clarissa O'Conor | Today’s tear gas brought to you by the United States

By Clarissa O'Conor · Nov. 17, 2013

Some classmates and I were eating breakfast before our next classes at a cafe right across the street and therefore had front-row seats, unable to leave the cafe for the duration of the assault.

JY Lee | A season of Thanksgiving

By JY_Lee · Nov. 17, 2013

With Thanksgiving as our ultimate feast of gratitude, here’s a toast to all my professors who have nurtured my inchoate mind.

Guest Column by Dan Eder | Selective diversity

By Dan Eder · Nov. 14, 2013

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.

Arielle Pardes | The contraception problem

By Arielle Pardes · Nov. 13, 2013

The complaints about hormonal birth control pills are extensive: They make women feel moody, bloated, tired, excessively horny, nauseous and so much more.

Morgan Jones | Why you should be passionless

By Morgan Jones · Nov. 13, 2013

Robert Frost erred when he said to take the path less traveled — always travel in herds, and don’t look around.

Letter to the Editor | Students' role in reaccreditation

By Abe Sutton and Michelle Ho · Nov. 12, 2013

If meaningful change is to occur, it will take the work of more than just administrators.