Angelina Eimannsberger | Penn, listen to grad students when planning the fall semester

By Angelina Eimannsberger · June 28, 2020

As graduate students, we experience the ongoing COVID-19 crisis both as students and as teachers.

Sophia DuRose | Difficult family conversations are a part of change

By Sophia DuRose · June 27, 2020

We are all complicit in allowing systemic racism to remain alive if we do not do the necessary, dirty work of calling out microaggressions, dismantling harmful generalizations, and ridding our personal conversations of stereotypes. 

Lark Yan | Penn made the right decision, now can it follow through?

By Lark Yan · June 26, 2020

Penn is prioritizing the health of its community by announcing stringent tracking and tracing measures, following the example of other nations who have effectively curbed the rampant spread of the virus by implementing such digital systems.

Editorial | Students need to know if their classes will be online or in person

By The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board · June 26, 2020

To improve clarity of communication, Penn should turn away from vague language and instead release a comprehensive list of all courses with 25 students or fewer and the format in which they will be taught in. 

Varun Saraswathula | Even with a hybrid model, returning to campus will inevitably spread the virus

By Varun Saraswathula · June 25, 2020

You would be wrong if you expect 10,000 18-22 year olds living in one place to exercise safe COVID-19 practices.

Guest Column by Gabriela Alvarado | The Penn Museum must end abuse of the Morton collection

By Gabriela Alvarado · June 25, 2020

The Penn Museum has no right or reason to keep human remains that bolstered racist science in its basement. 

Jessica Gooding | Police abolition is the only solution

By Jessica Gooding · June 25, 2020

Our policing system has never been fair, it has never represented justice for all, and it will continue to be riddled with injustices until radical change occurs.

Morgan Gilfond | The power of pressing record

By Morgan Gilfond · June 23, 2020

Cell phones make it so that America, and the world, cannot look away from the vivid brutality Black communities have already known for generations. 

Emilia Onuonga | Four reasons why systemic racism is real and alive today

By Emilia Onuonga · June 21, 2020

Now more than ever, it is important to address the counterarguments against systemic racism in order to promote systemic change. 

Letter from the President | Black Lives Matter

By Isabella Simonetti · June 19, 2020

For too long, the DP has failed to lift up the voices of Black students, and make sure their unique experiences and perspectives are heard and valued. We have also failed to make sure our staff represents the diversity of the student body at Penn. With such a large platform on campus, we must do better. 

Jessica Gooding | Take down the George Whitefield statue

By Jessica Gooding · June 19, 2020

As Philadelphia reckons with its own racist statues of Christopher Columbus and Frank Rizzo, now is the time for Penn to do the same on its own campus.

Christine Kim | Everything wrong with Philadelphia’s criminal justice system

By Christine Kim · June 19, 2020

Why should we care? As students lucky enough to attend a prestigious university as Penn, we have the power and resources to make the city government listen to us.

Angelina Eimannsberger | Read Black women authors

By Angelina Eimannsberger · June 18, 2020

As a Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature, I naturally think that reading is the answer to everything. 

Jessica Gooding | We don’t need another Starbucks

By Jessica Gooding · June 18, 2020

It is up to us, as consumers, to support small, local businesses. We can do this in our hometowns and when we are able to return safely to campus.

Varun Saraswathula | Don’t ignore COVID-19’s ongoing threat

By Varun Saraswathula · June 17, 2020

Our nation is slipping back into the grasp of a pandemic, and we’re blindly letting it happen.

Editorial | Students in Philadelphia must continue to follow safety protocols amid pandemic

By The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board · June 16, 2020

As students return from around the country and world, they risk causing a new wave of viral spread that would continue West Philadelphia’s current plight.

Stephanie Yoon | College should not be the best four years of your life

By Stephanie Yoon · June 15, 2020

Our time at Penn should be remembered as a “great” four years, rather than the “best.”