Lexi Caffrey | Mike Lane: Giving the good a chance to be great

By Lexi Caffrey · Feb. 1, 2013

I am writing you this letter to thank you for all you have done for my teammates and me over the years. In light of John Phillips’s DP article, I thought it was an appropriate time to recognize you and your colleagues in the Athletic Department who put so many thankless hours into making the student athletes at Penn better students, athletes and people.

Libby Mulligan | Actual talent never quits

By Libby Mulligan · Feb. 1, 2013

I think it’s really sad that of all the articles Mr. Phillips could have written about this team, full of interesting, talented, intelligent and unique women, he instead chose to focus on two of the small minority that have chosen to give up and walk away from this fantastic group.

Letter from the editor

By Jennifer Sun · Feb. 1, 2013

If you read our paper yesterday, you might have seen a young President Gutmann gracing our front page and a letter by her on our opinion page, responding to a critique from Tuesday’s paper. Enough readers have expressed their suspicions about our paper’s objectivity that we want to clarify our position.

Selbie Jason | Keeping the good, still going for the great

By Selbie Jason · Feb. 1, 2013

Although the article claims that we have lost 11 “rowers with pedigree” in the past two years, we have actually lost eight and only three of those were in one of the three boats eligible for NCAA championships.

Your Voice | The other side to liquor privitization

By ellen slack · Feb. 1, 2013

First, there was no mention of the loss of revenue averaging over $100 million a year in exchange for a one-time cash windfall, the size of which pro-privatization interests have every reason in inflate.

Kurt Mitman | Pro reforma

By Kurt Mitman · Feb. 1, 2013

If the Supreme Court upholds the Appellate Court’s ruling, it will restrict executive power and create a legal mess at the NLRB and most likely at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, whose director, Richard Corday, was also appointed during a pro forma session. The Supreme Court should, however, uphold the lower court’s decision.

Robert Hsu | Whose fault is it anyway?

By Robert Hsu · Feb. 1, 2013

Even in the midst of all the demand for compromise in recent years, rarely do we hear a call for voters to compromise their own political beliefs and expectations of the political system and politicians.

Equality not meritocracy

By Pallavi Podapati , Allyson Even , Lee Marcus and Lisa Doi · Jan. 31, 2013

The DP “takes a chance” with the educational futures of countless West Philadelphia residents and risks the exclusion of children and families of lower socioeconomic backgrounds from the best elementary school in Philadelphia.

Morgan Jones | Coming to a bachelor pad near you?

By Morgan Jones · Jan. 31, 2013

My Hill hall is cool. We defy stereotypes. We bond all over again over “The Bachelor.” Does your hall?

Your Voice | President Gutmann's response to "Guess who's (not) coming to dinner"

By Amy Gutmann · Jan. 31, 2013

Increasing diversity at every level of our university has always been and remains one of my highest priorities.

Your Voice | Prof. Margulies' response to "Guess who's (not) coming to dinner"

By Susan Margulies · Jan. 31, 2013

Last year, with input from the faculty, provost and president, Penn formulated plans for new initiatives to improve faculty diversity and enrich opportunities for faculty development under the auspices of Penn’s Diversity Action Plan.

Nadine Zylberberg | Growing Pains

By Nadine Zylberberg · Jan. 31, 2013

Historically, the value America has placed on the elderly is abysmal. We commit 1.2 million over the age of 65 to nursing homes and countless studies have reported instances of abuse. Dealing with our elders has become just another chore.

Guest Column | Guess who’s (not) coming to dinner

By Senior Faculty of Africana Studies · Jan. 30, 2013

Not only has President Gutmann failed to show leadership in diversifying the highest levels of University administration, those individuals appointed by President Gutmann have often modeled her example and made similarly nondiverse appointments of vice provosts, associate deans and other high-ranking administrative staff.

Arielle Pardes | What Swedes know about sex

By Arielle Pardes · Jan. 30, 2013

Sweden’s sexual laissez-faire is precisely what lured me into spending half my year in Stockholm. Throughout my semester abroad, I split my time sampling Sweden’s elite coffee scene and studying what Swedes know about sex.

Your Voice | Thank you to the Philadelphia Police Department’s Homicide Task Force

By Maureen Rush · Jan. 30, 2013

I want to commend the Philadelphia Police Department, and specifically the Homicide Task Force, that so expertly and expeditiously investigated and charged the alleged perpetrator of the horrific homicide of Dr. Melissa Ketunuti.

Lauren Agresti | The road less traveled

By Lauren Agresti · Jan. 29, 2013

In my personal version of Dante’s inferno, I imagine that this is the circle of hell that comes right after the dentist’s chair during a filling and just before the rat-infested alley behind Copa.

Rachel del Valle | Everybody's a critic

By Rachel del Valle · Jan. 29, 2013

If I had been more diligent about checking the reviews on a hostel I stayed at briefly in Barcelona, I wouldn’t have my checking-out-at-4 a.m.-because-of-bed-bugs story.