Senior Columnist Beatriz Báez discusses recent legislation allowing discrimination against Latines and emphasizes the need to increase campus safety as a response.
Columnist Gladys Smith contends that fixation with relative privilege prevents us from seeing the bigger picture.
Columnist Jesse Van Doren points out Penn’s lacking presence in many scholarly fields as evidence of our waning impact.
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Viktor Wittner
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Sept. 30, 2025
Columnist Viktor Wittner comments on the experience gap among Penn students, arguing how clubs’ lack of newcomer-friendliness worsen an already uneven playing field.
Columnist Simar Soni discusses the historical roots of Penn fashion trends and its implications for Penn students.
Columnist Andy Mei argues that effective suicide prevention comes through the form of emotional connection rather than clichéd slogans.
Columnist Andy Mei argues that effective suicide prevention comes through the form of emotional connection rather than clichéd slogans.
Columnist Gladys Smith contends that fixation with relative privilege prevents us from seeing the bigger picture.
Columnist Jesse Van Doren points out Penn’s lacking presence in many scholarly fields as evidence of our waning impact.
Guest Columnist Ted Kwee-Bintoro argues that we should not accept violence as a price to pay for living in civilized society.
Columnist Lindsay Muneton provides commentary on how institutional neutrality can infect students in their politics and their personal lives.
The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board explains that OFSL's enforcement of a 100-person cap on parties is unreasonable.
Columnist Ashti Tiwari navigates second-generation guilt as a complicated response to losing sight of where we come from.
Columnist Zaid Alsubaiei argues that the Penn undergraduate experience alters how we perceive where we come from, but not who we are.
Mritika Senthil | Penn students made Charlie Kirk’s murder about themselves
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Mritika Senthil
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Sept. 19, 2025
Senior Columnist Mritika Senthil examines how Penn students politicized Charlie Kirk’s death and legacy, often at the expense of the facts.
Columnist Alyma Karbownik examines why the transition out of our first year compels us to gatekeep rather than sharing knowledge as a resource.
Senior columnist Mariana Martinez analyzes what it truly means to be open-minded on a college campus.
Guest columnist Eliav Zendehdel urges all students to voice their opinions in the vacuum left by Charlie Kirk.
Columnist Eden Liu argues that Penn’s rushed overhaul of its student funding system has stripped clubs of necessary resources.
Senior columnist Mia Vesely denounces political violence in all forms and urges the public to check its hypocrisy.
Columnist Francesco Salamone argues that the proliferation of noise and muttering penetrate our ears, eroding well-being, and the antidote is a simple dose of silence.
Senior Columnist Piper Slinka-Petka argues that students have lost the ability to make choices without a productive justification.
Senior columnist Diya Choksey explores the recent dismantling of alumni interviews in higher education and its implications in a world centered on artificial intelligence and data.
