Articles by Caroline Magdolen
04/21/22 1:23pm
Caroline Magdolen | The second-year experience: Smoke and mirrors?
Columnist Caroline Magdolen reflects on her experience with on-campus housing over the past two years, and how her perception of College House community has changed. 01/28/22 6:13pm
Caroline Magdolen | Penn Was Never a Need-Blind School
Columnist Caroline Magdolen demands that Penn students and administrators recognize that Penn’s current admission practices are not need-blind, and fight for a legal methodology for admissions and financial aid distribution. 12/09/21 4:44pm
Caroline Magdolen | Here we go again?
Columnist Caroline Magdolen discusses how the Omicron variant will affect our future. 11/23/21 9:52am
Caroline Magdolen | What do weed-out courses really measure?
Columnist Caroline Magdolen argues that "weed-out" courses do little to inform students about a discipline and instead discourage diverse students from studying the subject. 10/25/21 1:27am
Caroline Magdolen | Penn OutOfTouch: Why our academic planning needs more than a software update
Columnist Caroline Magdolen argues that Penn's replacement for Penn InTouch will do little to improve the fundamental issues with Penn's academic and advising systems. 09/26/21 7:00pm
Caroline Magdolen | How many lanternflies have you stomped today?
Caroline Magdolen encourages us to give back to the local ecosystem, even in urban spaces like Philadelphia, as seemingly harmless inaction can lead to exponential damage in the long run.Columnist Caroline Magdolen argues that we need to pay more attention to Philadelphia's ailing ecosystem and squash lanterflies! 09/11/21 9:30am
Caroline Magdolen | Saplings in Juniper Valley Park
Columnist and New Yorker Caroline Magdolen reflects on how her Brooklyn neighborhood comes together each year to remember those who died on and as a result of 9/11. 08/21/21 9:19pm
Caroline Magdolen | Eco-anxiety, our double-edged sword to wield
Columnist Caroline Magdolen writes about the anxiety surrounding climate change, and how we have more power than we think to enact positive change. 06/27/21 3:08pm
Caroline Magdolen | So you want a third party? Support ranked choice voting.
Columnist Caroline Magdolen writes about ranked choice voting and how it is a better way of electing candidates compared to the standard winner-take-all system. She argues that we should include ranked choice voting wherever we can — starting with the clubs and organizations that we are a part of. 04/30/21 2:50pm
Caroline Magdolen | We hit 200 million COVID-19 vaccinations. Now comes the hard part.
Columnist Caroline Magdolen urges Penn students to become vaccine ambassadors for their communities at home to help the U.S. reach herd immunity. 04/16/21 4:50pm
Caroline Magdolen | Using random housing assignments to build a stronger community
Columnist Caroline Magdolen argues that Penn should move to a randomized College House sorting system to break down stereotypes associated with the different on-campus living options. 03/25/21 12:10am
Caroline Magdolen | Where’s the pandemic-safe fun at the ‘Social Ivy’?
Columnist Caroline Magdolen suggests that Penn can do more to promote community wellbeing while being mindful of the pandemic. 02/28/21 7:38pm
Caroline Magdolen | Let’s talk about the other global crisis: sustainability
Columnist Caroline Magdolen investigates the status of sustainability at Penn and discusses how the University and its students can lead green lives at Penn. 01/29/21 10:51am
Caroline Magdolen | Penn’s not our babysitter; let’s act our age.
With many first years now back on campus, it's up to us to be mature and follow covid guidelines, or else endanger our surrounding communities and classes. 01/09/21 10:30am
Caroline Magdolen | Saving American Democracy Starts With 147 Republicans
The capitol insurrection highlighted a dangerous desire from some Republicans for political power at all costs. Halting this dangerous slide begins with the GOP taking action. 12/02/20 10:39pm
Caroline Magdolen | Wait, we were supposed to be learning something?
In many ways, Penn’s administration is treating this term as business as usual. It clearly isn't. 11/25/20 11:03am
Caroline Magdolen | Your election week anxiety was just the tip of the iceberg
It’s difficult enough for Penn students to be productive from home, and the struggle is only worsened by recent election anxiety and ongoing pandemic loneliness and uncertainty. Unfortunately, news providers are not on our side. 11/06/20 9:11pm
Caroline Magdolen | Firehoses of falsehood and fruitless quests for fact
Disinformation isn’t going away anytime soon, and there aren’t any clear, unbiased solutions to it. But we can cope with it better if we stop expecting certainty from our news, and strive to identify probable truths, as opposed to an absolute, undeniable one. 10/14/20 8:51pm
Caroline Magdolen | Come Thanksgiving, maybe you should talk to your “Crazy Uncle”
Though Penn leans liberal, I’m sure that there are Republican Quakers waiting to have a conversation, feeling marginalized by their peers. 10/05/20 8:24pm