In 2004, a federal ban on assault weapons expired. Now, four years later, Mayor Michael Nutter and Governor Ed Rendell want to reduce violent crime nationally by convincing Congress to re-enact the ban. The ten-year federal ban forbids the possession, manufacture, use and import of assault weapons.
Hello. Some of you may know me as the zany former editor 'n chief of 34th Street magazine who woefully will soon be pushed, rather shoved, into that nebulous place commonly referred to as the real world, but some of you may not. I would like to share some brief ruminations with you and I hope that you will be entertained.
Shortly before I graduated from high school, I opened a fortune cookie that would change my life forever. "The work of the world cannot wait for perfect people," it read. I was a girl who was plagued by self-doubt throughout high school - a girl in love with the idea of going off to college (proudly sporting a Penn sweatshirt during her senior spring) but who was terrified of messing up an experience that she knew could impact her entire future.
A month ago, you'd be hard-pressed to hear me give my experience at Penn a positive review. But like most things in life, you only really appreciate something once it's truly gone. And now, situated at that cusp between "the best four years of your life" and the rest of it, I've started to realize that my own natural tendency to be miserable and deprecating aside, Penn wasn't all bad.
Avery Lawrence is a College senior from Charlottesville, Va. His e-mail address is lawrence@dailypennsylvanian.com.
Over the course of the last four years, the Class of 2008 has learned a lot about life - and taught us just as much. As mentors and friends of the other undergraduate classes, the graduating seniors will be sorely missed. With their days as Penn students numbered, this year's senior class can review their time at Penn with pride, and the future looks nothing but bright.
Over the course of the last four years, the Class of 2008 has learned a lot about life - and taught us just as much. As mentors and friends of the other undergraduate classes, the graduating seniors will be sorely missed. With their days as Penn students numbered, this year's senior class can review their time at Penn with pride, and the future looks nothing but bright.
Hello. Some of you may know me as the zany former editor 'n chief of 34th Street magazine who woefully will soon be pushed, rather shoved, into that nebulous place commonly referred to as the real world, but some of you may not. I would like to share some brief ruminations with you and I hope that you will be entertained.
Shortly before I graduated from high school, I opened a fortune cookie that would change my life forever. "The work of the world cannot wait for perfect people," it read. I was a girl who was plagued by self-doubt throughout high school - a girl in love with the idea of going off to college (proudly sporting a Penn sweatshirt during her senior spring) but who was terrified of messing up an experience that she knew could impact her entire future.
On the last day of classes, I ran into my freshman advisor on Locust Walk. She and I had a quick catch-up as we walked together before the mayhem of Hey Day began. The last time we had really talked was my sophomore year, when I had just declared my American History major and thought I wanted to be a political journalist.
Enforcing our rights To the Editor: An editorial by The Daily Pennsylvanian's Opinion Board titled "Stand up to the RIAA" (4/21/08) deserves a response. There's nothing novel or unique about the copyright infringement legal actions (lawsuits or pre-litigation letters) that we bring on behalf of the major record companies.
It was some time at the beginning of last December when I was officially done with my duties as executive editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. We had just elected a new board, and although there were some loose ends to tie up, the finish line was all but here.
Whoever said the ending is always anticlimactic couldn't have been more right. With only two weeks until graduation, I look at myself and realize how little has changed over the past four years. In many ways, I'm leaving Penn the same way I entered: broke, single and with a mild case of insomnia.
My time here comes to a close. I only got three years at Penn because I transferred here and I found out the difference between a good university and a great one (relax, this is the great one). Yet I feel a certain sense of disappointment that we, at an elite university, are not coming away with the education we should have received.
Daniel Schwartz is a College sophomore from Decatur, Ga. His e-mail address is schwartz@dailypennsylvanian.com.
CHEERS To student political groups, for their impressive efforts in increasing voter turnout to record levels in the Pennsylvania primary. To the University, for unveiling a bold financial-aid plan that will replace loans with grants and greatly increase the affordability of a Penn education to middle-income students.
The year was 2004. It was a simpler time. Usher's "Yeah!" played on the radio, you never had to worry about your drunken actions becoming a Facebook album, and Britney Spears was hot. But most importantly, I started college. I was excited when my cab pulled up to Hill House for the first time.
Misleading rhetoric To the Editor: Sarah Rothman's recent opinion piece on the current administration's "war on science" was misleading. After 9/11, George Bush described a war against freedom being waged by the terrorists and suggested that they are against all forms of freedom since they attacked the U.
Alicia Puglionesi is a College junior from Havertown, Pa. Her e-mail address is puglionesi@dailypennsylvanian.com.
As the semester winds down, I want to take this opportunity to reflect on how we've been doing and to answer some concerns recently brought up by readers. Looking ahead to the fall, we will continue to encourage greater reader participation. We really do appreciate it when readers get in touch with us, especially to offer an opposing point of view.
Amira Fawcett is an Engineering junior from Houston, TX. Her e-mail address is fawcett@dailypennsylvanian.com.w
Art and abortion revisited To the Editor: In "Risking Women's Rights for Art" (4/23/08), Mara Gordon states that Shvarts' actions were "well within her rights" but that "she owes the millions of women for whom abortion is an important option a little more respect than this.
Looking for a new laptop? Forget those fancy gizmos at Computer Connection. Just north of Market Street, I spotted a hole-in-the-wall electronics store called the Super Computer Center, hosting a sidewalk sale at Depression-era rates. Old-school computers for $100.
Solutions by The State News
