SEAN MCGEEHAN is a College junior from Philadelphia. His email address is seanmcgeehan@verizon.net.

We hoped that SOUL’s aim would be to contribute to an expansion of intellectual diversity and meaningful exchange regarding issues of race and power structures on campus and in the world around us. With the benefit of hindsight, however, we can unfortunately observe that this hope has been dashed.

It strikes me that, in calling for the punishment of images they find offensive, SOUL is calling for the destruction of the very rights which uphold and protect their ability to strive for the achievement of justice as they understand it.

Granting medical school admission to undocumented students with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) like myself has the potential to alleviate the declining Latino physician workforce.

Pennsylvania will be a crucial state, both in the primaries in April 2016, and in the general election on Nov. 8, 2016. 

PennMOVES has partnered with two additional charities for students to donate their belongings to at the end of the semester.

Slate reporter Katy Waldman sat in on Penn's controversial "Wasting Time on the Internet" course.  "Wasting Time," a creative writing course, is taught by Penn professor Kenny Goldsmith.

On Saturday, students at Harvard College attempted to break the world record for the longest glowstick chain in order to raise awareness about malaria. The students, part of Harvard College Students Against Malaria, wanted to "do something fun and cool and to raise awareness for malaria," according to SAM co-founder and co-president Mohammed Toure.

Paul Nungesser, the alleged rapist of Emma Sulkowicz--who has been walking around Columbia with a mattress to protest the school's lack of action against Nungesser--is now suing Columbia for failing "to protect him from a 'harassment campaign' by Sulkowicz." Nungesser is suing the school's board of trustees, president and a professor that allowed Sulkowicz to write her thesis on the matress-carrying protest. The lawsuit, filed on Thursday, reads, "Columbia University's effective sponsorship of the gender-based harassment and defamation of Paul resulted in an intimidating, hostile, demeaning...learning and living environment." The popularity of Sulkowicz's protest, which was picked up by The New York Times and New York Magazine, has also been damaging to Nungesser's and job prospects.  Columbia had no comment on the lawsuit.

At last year’s Penn Relays, Penn track and field picked up three individual victories, the first time since 1922 that the program had done so.

On the back nine in the final round of the Ivy League Men’s Golf Championships, Penn knew it was going to be close.

Scheduling big opponents used to be a staple of the Quakers’ slate. 

Penn softball has been firing on all cylinders recently, having won six of its last eight, and Jurie Joyner has played a big role in the team’s thriving offense.

Seven cases involving the use of excessive force and violation of civil rights have been filed against the Penn Police force since 2012.

Many African and African-American students at Penn believe that the black community is unified because of a shared experience of living as a black person in America — not because black people constitute a homogenized group with assumed similarities beyond the color of their skin.

When it comes to pharmaceuticals, the stakes are high as far as identifying proper treatment.

“No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.” ? bell hooks Quiet as it’s kept, the denial to protect the black woman in this country belongs to a long American tradition from which this University is not exempt.