I have a theory that the student body of Penn is composed of maybe 30 percent introverts, and of that 30 percent, about half of those spend their first few years trying to pretend they’re extroverts like everyone else.
In most cases, sexting holds the same appeal as any other erotic act — the only difference is that it’s digitalized.
Perhaps in a few years, 9/11 will be yet another tragically storied day that future students can only relate to through stories, textbooks and movies. But that time hasn’t come yet.
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Jeff Nadel
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Sept. 15, 2013
Uber brings a better, more efficient service to consumers — and that threatens the livelihood of entrenched taxi unions and the City Hall politicians and bureaucrats beholden to their interests.
It’s easy to think we need an even higher GPA and more impressive extracurriculars if we are to compete with students from HYP.
I knew Sheldon Hackney, the Penn history professor, and that man deserves to be celebrated unconditionally.
I knew Sheldon Hackney, the Penn history professor, and that man deserves to be celebrated unconditionally.
In most cases, sexting holds the same appeal as any other erotic act — the only difference is that it’s digitalized.
Perhaps in a few years, 9/11 will be yet another tragically storied day that future students can only relate to through stories, textbooks and movies. But that time hasn’t come yet.
Amidst all of the noise about Syria coming from the talking heads in Washington, a bigger point has largely been ignored.
Your Voice | The say-anything column: towards accountability in editorial decisions
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Jonathan Wieder
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Sept. 11, 2013
I sincerely hope that the DP will cancel O’Conor’s column and enact new editorial policies.
Penn Police protects our stores, not our students.
There is a large discrepancy between the medically accepted notions of healthy bodies and the images encouraged by popular culture, and I’m not the only one who’s been affected by it.
Screw the class schedule as it stands. Reconfigure it if you must, but send students en masse into the public schools to volunteer.
We’re seeing senior women with full courseloads, a work-study or part-time job, relationships and leadership positions who, shockingly, want to take a few hours to themselves sometimes. What’s so wrong with that? Washed up? We think not.
According to some analysts, Amazon Prime is part of a huge scheme to alter the way internet consumers consume.
Acting like a real person means, essentially, acting like a grown-up, an adult. But it doesn’t have the same, sad, unexciting connotation as those other terms.
The discourse of empowerment makes us feel good about putting a Band-Aid on something while avoiding actually questioning our role in systematic racism, oppression and injustice.
The ivory tower is often derided for how elitist and out of touch it is, but isolation from the world is a good and necessary thing.
The DP is launching a new advice column! Have questions? The columnists have answers.
Every year that I have been at Penn, I have been chilled by the premature deaths in our University community.
More than an eighth of the undergraduates at Penn are international students and a significant fraction of the faculty is also foreign, meaning that under FISA, the government can track all their communications.
It is possible to divorce supporting the troops as a whole political entity from respecting the individuals who serve.
