Emerson Brooking

Farewell columns are invariably self-important and unavoidably pretentious. I’ve been looking forward to writing one for a very long time.

We need a renewed interest in the war that Frank Buckles fought and renewed appreciation for the sacrifices he and his WWI comrades made.

In his challenge to the Ten Commandments, Rev. Bo Turner exhibited the kind of behavior we all should follow.

Thanks in large part to the DP, Christian Lunoe has gone through too much for too little. This newspaper overstepped its bounds in its treatment of a fellow student. It should not do so again.

I’m not going to offer a pithy recap or make a pun about “Sanity and/or Fear.” Instead, I want to tell you why the rally wasn’t important. And I want to tell you why it was.

It’s up to us to appreciate the power and recognize the pitfalls of our deepening digital footprint.

As a proselytizing faith, it can be difficult for evangelical Christianity to find its place in the framework of tolerance. And in doing so, it can compromise those very elements which set it apart in the first place.

Nestled in the Penn bubble, we know a lot about the strategic hopscotch that starts wars, but we know less and less about the college-aged kids we send to fight them.

Social media has its uses, but also its place.

Blocking content in high-school newspapers is harmful to the future of journalism.