Guest Column by Abigail Swartz | Penn Nursing needs to require a class on LGBTQ healthcare

By Abigail Swartz · 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.

Editorial | President Gutmann’s accomplishments justify her $3.9 million salary

By The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board · 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.

Julia Mitchell | What Birthright taught me about Judaism at Penn

By Julia Mitchell · Jan. 29, 2019

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.

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Lucy Hu | Spending a semester at Cambridge made me love Penn’s pre-professionalism

By Lucy Hu · 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 | Nancy and Chuck make a bet

By Veronica Fenton · Feb. 2, 2019

VERONICA FENTON is a College sophomore from Penn Valley, Pa. Her email address is fentonv@sas.upenn.edu.

Sophia DuRose | How to treat yourself at Penn

By Sophia DuRose · Feb. 2, 2019

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.

Sophia DuRose | How to treat yourself at Penn

By Sophia DuRose · Feb. 2, 2019

Editorial | President Gutmann’s accomplishments justify her $3.9 million salary

By The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board · 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.

Julia Mitchell | What Birthright taught me about Judaism at Penn

By Julia Mitchell · Jan. 29, 2019

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

By The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board · 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

By Rebecca Alifimoff · 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.

Sophia DuRose | Toxic masculinity runs deeper than the Gillette ad

By Sophia DuRose · Jan. 27, 2019

Men need to be encouraged to reveal the more vulnerable parts of themselves normally hidden by the steely outer layer of toxic masculinity.

Ana West | Don't ignore the dangers of relationship violence at Penn

By Ana West · Jan. 27, 2019

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

By Kaliyah Dorsey · 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.