Skip to Content, Navigation, or Footer.
Sunday, April 19, 2026
The Daily Pennsylvanian

Front Breaking

Dani BlumThe Danalyst

Dani Blum | Core values

By Dani Blum · Oct. 19, 2014

It sucks that I have to put off that creative writing course I’m interested in until next year, but I want to become a more educated person. Requirements raise us to a level of competency so we can graduate with the knowledge base we need to take on the world. English majors need rudimentary math skills to survive; Wharton kids need to know how to write. Learning across disciplines allows us to pick up skills we wouldn’t otherwise have, to teach us how to think. If that’s not the purpose of college, I don’t know what is.


The Latest
By Jonathan Iwry · Oct. 19, 2014

Unfortunately, the cult of the natural has overstepped its bounds. These people are no different from the fanatically religious; they cling mindlessly to dogma, guided by simplistic maxims like “nature good, technology bad.” And their lack of insight is putting everyone at risk.