We’d like to see not only big names at these events, but people whose lives have been defined more by their work on the ground than by what they did before giving back.
Guest Column by Sarah Shihadah | Seeing both sides of senior societies
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Sarah Shihadah
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Oct. 3, 2013
Although there is something to be said for honoring certain students for their contributions to Penn, the limitations of such a process — and the inevitable exclusion of so many deserving individuals — is an unfortunate and perhaps detrimental consequence.
The culture at Penn isn’t one that would support an event like Nudity Week — and that’s a shame.
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This past weekend I was at a bar celebrating a friend from high school’s birthday and was having a great time until one of my guy friends slapped my butt.
I came to Penn aspiring to be just that: an academic, entrepreneur or travel writer. I now find myself in consulting interviews, reciting how my education and internship experience in journalism have prepared me for business strategy.
The fact that we can dismiss people, relationships and interactions we’re not proud of after four years doesn’t mean that those actions don’t define our character.
The fact that we can dismiss people, relationships and interactions we’re not proud of after four years doesn’t mean that those actions don’t define our character.
Guest Column by Sarah Shihadah | Seeing both sides of senior societies
By
Sarah Shihadah
·
Oct. 3, 2013
Although there is something to be said for honoring certain students for their contributions to Penn, the limitations of such a process — and the inevitable exclusion of so many deserving individuals — is an unfortunate and perhaps detrimental consequence.
The culture at Penn isn’t one that would support an event like Nudity Week — and that’s a shame.
This letter is in response to two recent articles published by the Daily Pennsylvanian (“Campus crime log disclosed minors’ identities,” 9/12/2013; “Names of arrestees not in campus crime log,” 9/27/2013) on the topic of the crime log published by the Division of Public Safety.
What is our duty when someone insults our race? Do we have an obligation to society and fellow citizens to go on a tirade?
Accomplishments require strategically straddling a line between deliberate self-unawareness and critical self-awareness.
The argument that our campus isn’t safe to the point where we should carry guns on campus is a non-issue.
“Breaking Bad” drew the golden line between inconceivable action scenes and soft human emotions.
I’ve heard about the same personal struggles and issues from many people — some of which I’ve experienced too. Given the pervasiveness of these topics, I’ve decided to address a few.
This Saturday night, I biked past the Benjamin Franklin statue seated on a bench right by Locust Walk. I was shocked to see a drunk, American college-aged male urinating on Benjamin Franklin’s statue.
We spend a lot of time with the figments of writers’ imaginations, sometimes forgetting that that’s what they are.
If a state allows for concealed carry, then there is no defensible reason for universities to enforce a zone of defenselessness.
We were glad that the administration reached out to us in the first place. But transparency and collaboration on the front end need to carry over throughout the whole process.
Newspapers like to say that journalism is the first rough draft of history, but even for a rough draft, it’s often pretty bad.
The DP should be more active in curating the comments section. When the author is directly attacked, or if the commenter goes off on some tangent unrelated to the topic of the article, the comment should be removed.
Should we really be proud when we sleep less, or take pride in taking six classes just because it sounds like a lot?
There’s a subscription service for everything. But will the subscription commerce model work for sex?
