Your Voice | Getting you involved

By Josh Oppenheimer · April 9, 2013

In yesterday’s edition of The Daily Pennsylvanian, the DP provided campus with suggestions on how the Social Planning and Events Committee should incorporate student input into what artists, speakers and events are brought to campus. The suggestions they provided are really good. So good, in fact, that they are already in place.

Jen Chaquette & Abe Sutton | Six months later: the SAC moratorium

By Abe Sutton and Jen Chaquette · April 9, 2013

Since any change in SAC policy reverberates throughout campus, we just wanted to give you, the student body, an update and set the record straight on the moratorium once and for all.

Editorial | SPEC, don't black us out

By The Daily Pennsylvanian · April 8, 2013

In future years, we think SPEC should do two things: 1) be more transparent about how they pick artists for Fling and 2) involve the student body in the selection process to some extent.

Divya Ramesh | A shaky foundation

By Divya Ramesh · April 8, 2013

While the United States might not have the same structural issues as other countries, like collapsing apartment buildings made of weak wood, our problem rests on where we choose to build.

Kurt Mitman | Internalize this

By Kurt Mitman · April 4, 2013

Fundamentally, should the government be funding research at Penn or in general? The private sector is great at applied research — it is easily monetizable. Basic research? Not so much.

Jeffrey Nadel | Penn’s on welfare

By Jeffrey Nadel · April 4, 2013

In an era of unprecedented government debt, if anyone should be begging the federal government to take some people’s money by way of taxation in the name of research, surely it should not be us.

Joyce Kim & Aaron Wilson | How to speak to a human being

By Joyce Kim and Aaron Wilson · April 4, 2013

On Saturday, April 20, we challenge you to put your computers to sleep. Get off Facebook, get together with a group of friends and just spend time with real people.

Your Voice | Sex week brings the discussion back to Penn

By Andrew E. Behrendt · April 4, 2013

At one time, there were courses in human sexuality at Penn. Alas, all good things come to an end, in part because of the politics at Penn at the time.

Your Voice | Questioning real and pop science

By Merlin Chowkwanyun · April 4, 2013

I found the DP’s fawning interview with Adrian Raine disturbing and free of the skepticism that one would think ought automatically accompany broad claims about brain chemistry and criminal behavior. It read more like a PR release than an interview from an otherwise excellent newspaper.

Zurtoons Caption Contest

By Rachel Zurier · April 4, 2013

Think you got the perfect caption to this cartoon?

Guest column | With liberty and justice for all

By Arielle Klepach and Matt Kalmans · April 4, 2013

It is in that same spirit that we are proud to express our firm support for marriage equality, as individuals and as the presidents of the Penn Democrats and Penn College Republicans, respectively.

Nadine Zylberberg | Playing house

By Nadine Zylberberg · April 4, 2013

Adulthood doesn’t come with a gown and tassel. And it certainly doesn’t come with a 2,000-square-foot apartment overlooking Madison Square Park. It’s an entire process, and perhaps that was what scared me most.

Hayley Brooks & Ali Kokot | Social slacktivism

By Hayley Brooks and Ali Kokot · April 2, 2013

Supporting a cause has become as simple as clicking “upload” with an ease that undermines actual activism.

Morgan Jones | Problematic policy

By Morgan Jones · April 2, 2013

Access to the Quadrangle building access will be restricted during Fling. According to Penn, the administration is trying to “curb the threat of underage or irresponsible drinking” and reduce the number of hospitalizations. I don’t think the new policy will be effective. In fact, I think it may have the opposite effect.

Elise A. Mitchell | A response to “Are you out there?”

By Elise A. Mitchell · April 2, 2013

Girl Talk, who specializes in mash-ups and sampling, regularly samples from music with lyrics that are equally as misogynistic Tyga’s. However, thus far there have been little to no complaints pertaining to the misogynistic nature of his samples. I cannot help but suspect that race is at the heart of this matter.

Arielle Pardes | Advice for the young women of Penn

By Arielle Pardes · April 1, 2013

In a letter to the editor published in The Daily Princetonian on March 29, Princeton alumna Susan Patton gave her two cents to the “daughters she never had.” The advice: Now that you’ve made it to the Ivy League, it’s time to start husband hunting. The idea that my time in college is best spent finding a suitable man is, frankly, insulting.

Rachel del Valle | Pick a job, any job

By Rachel del Valle · April 1, 2013

There’s an unavoidable, nettling sense of superficiality that comes with mentally aligning yourself with a certain life — or in my case, lives.