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Editorial | Kaepernick hasn’t left. Neither should Penn’s criminal justice reform efforts.
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The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board
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Feb. 3, 2019
While the Super Bowl may be the only time some pay attention to these issues, police brutality and structural racism are not distant phenomena for many on and near Penn’s campus.
Guest Column by Abigail Swartz | Penn Nursing needs to require a class on LGBTQ healthcare
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Abigail Swartz
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Feb. 3, 2019
I don’t claim to be an expert on LGBTQ healthcare, but the fact still stands that important aspects of our education as caretakers are being allowed to fall by the wayside.
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KRISTEN YEH is a College sophomore from West Covina, Calif.
Guest Column by Tamara Wurman | Ralph Northam broke our trust. His apology didn’t fix it.
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Tamara Wurman
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Feb. 4, 2019
In this new era of deep polarization, it is crucial that we maintain moral integrity.
Guest Column by Tamara Wurman | Ralph Northam broke our trust. His apology didn’t fix it.
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Tamara Wurman
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Feb. 4, 2019
In this new era of deep polarization, it is crucial that we maintain moral integrity.
Editorial | Kaepernick hasn’t left. Neither should Penn’s criminal justice reform efforts.
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The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board
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Feb. 3, 2019
While the Super Bowl may be the only time some pay attention to these issues, police brutality and structural racism are not distant phenomena for many on and near Penn’s campus.
Guest Column by Abigail Swartz | Penn Nursing needs to require a class on LGBTQ healthcare
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Abigail Swartz
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Feb. 3, 2019
I don’t claim to be an expert on LGBTQ healthcare, but the fact still stands that important aspects of our education as caretakers are being allowed to fall by the wayside.
Lucy Hu | Spending a semester at Cambridge made me love Penn’s pre-professionalism
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Lucy Hu
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Feb. 3, 2019
But when I peeled back the layers of historical extravagance, I realized that while the Ivy League evokes less Harry Potter imagery than Cambridge or Oxford, the actual learning experience may be more worth the prestige than the English schools.
VERONICA FENTON is a College sophomore from Penn Valley, Pa. Her email address is fentonv@sas.upenn.edu.
If we fall into cycles of pushing yourself too far, burning out, and then treating yourself to copious amounts of whatever it is that makes you feel temporarily better about yourself, the cycle will never end. Temporary relief is all you’ll ever feel.
Editorial | President Gutmann’s accomplishments justify her $3.9 million salary
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The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board
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Jan. 31, 2019
While students don’t often see Gutmann on Locust Walk, aside from major capstone events in their Penn careers, she is clearly hard at work.
At Penn, blocking out Jewish life altogether is nearly impossible, especially since about 17% of undergrads identify as Jewish, but I still managed to do it first semester.
Editorial | In responding to Title IX changes, Penn needs to prioritize survivors
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The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board
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Jan. 28, 2019
Penn has some flexibility in how it can implement the new regulations into University policy. In navigating the new guidelines, the administration must prioritize the rights of victims.
Rebecca Alifimoff | A year after #MeToo, it feels like little has changed
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Rebecca Alifimoff
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Jan. 27, 2019
The habits we form here at Penn — the things we chose to expect of our friends, the organizations we decided to be a part of, the behavior we tolerate on our campus — will shape the moral compasses that guide us through our infinitely more complicated post-graduate lives.
Men need to be encouraged to reveal the more vulnerable parts of themselves normally hidden by the steely outer layer of toxic masculinity.
Many times, I’ve seen couples holding hands on Locust and thought about how perfect they must be together — that there was no danger there.
Kaliyah Dorsey | What Kiese Laymon’s ‘Heavy’ taught me about vulnerability
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Kaliyah Dorsey
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Jan. 24, 2019
I am surrounded every day by high-achieving students at what is often coined “the social Ivy,” which means that vulnerability isn’t high on anyone’s list of priorities, though almost everyone has to have struggled juggling social, personal, and academic expectations.
VERONICA FENTON is a College sophomore from Penn Valley, Pa. Her email address is fentonv@sas.upenn.edu.
KRISTEN YEH is a College sophomore from West Covina, Calif.
Christy Qiu | I looked at my Penn admissions file, and you should too
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Christy Qiu
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Jan. 22, 2019
What we need to fight for is transparency. While Penn doesn’t even have a rubric for interpreting admissions files, other schools have clear guidelines along with original comments attached to their files.
We are all entitled to our own preferences, but we should do our best not to degrade the preferences of others, especially when it comes to food.
