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.
We would like to tell the many students in an uproar over the injustice of “good study spaces” only being available to Wharton students to kindly calm down.
Penn should require all undergraduate students to take an academically based community service course.
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Guest Column by Christina Gunzenhauser & Lennie Zhu | Lynxsy: Career services, startup edition
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Christina Gunzenhauser & Lennie Zhu
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Nov. 25, 2013
The demand for alternate opportunities is growing within Penn and the school must begin to construct better infrastructure to fulfill that demand.
Guest Column by Dillon Weber | Why the Penn Secular Society banner does ruin a Christian’s day
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Dillon Weber
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Nov. 25, 2013
Penn Secular Society is not questioning the beliefs of informed Christians — it is simply misrepresenting them.
Guest Column by Dillon Weber | Why the Penn Secular Society banner does ruin a Christian’s day
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Dillon Weber
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Nov. 25, 2013
Penn Secular Society is not questioning the beliefs of informed Christians — it is simply misrepresenting them.
We would like to tell the many students in an uproar over the injustice of “good study spaces” only being available to Wharton students to kindly calm down.
Penn should require all undergraduate students to take an academically based community service course.
Guest Column by Dylan Hewitt and Claire Shimberg | SNAP back to reality
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Dylan Hewitt & Claire Shimberg
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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.
This Thanksgiving, I say we should be deeply thankful for the sheer ineptitude of the state.
As you may or may not have already heard, the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year is “selfie.”
Certain forms of reality TV actually have the potential to affect my reality — and to make it a better one.
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.
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.”
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?
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?
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.
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
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Clarissa O'Conor
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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.
With Thanksgiving as our ultimate feast of gratitude, here’s a toast to all my professors who have nurtured my inchoate mind.
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.
