Articles by Gabe Oppenheim

09/10/13 4:38pm

Guest Column | Penn can save Philly’s schools

Screw the class schedule as it stands. Reconfigure it if you must, but send students en masse into the public schools to volunteer.
09/29/09 10:46pm

Guest Column | Remembering the glory years

Technology has sadly de-emphasized the use of a yearbook for posterity
12/06/06 5:00am

Gabe Oppenheim | Penn will always be the same, but different

The six laws of the Penn landscape, or, why the University's name will never change and its students will always 'suck.'
11/29/06 5:00am

Gabe Oppenheim | Penn's crime stats don't fit the mold

National crime patterns suggest that Penn is reporting many burglaries as larcenies, a much less worrisome crime.
11/22/06 5:00am

Gabe Oppenheim | Can you tell Amy Gutmann from Goldie Hawn?

Gabe Oppenheim quizzes students to see who has the knowledge to discern Penn celebrities from national celebrities.
11/15/06 5:00am

Gabe Oppenheim | Look to the UA of yore for planning

Previous UA proposals a Palestra park, a massive new student center and many other ideas worth embracing.
11/08/06 5:00am

Gabe Oppenheim | The Jekyll and Hyde of ZBT

Penn's ZBT fraternity has long had a history of good and bad; the two have finally split up permanently.
11/01/06 5:00am

Gabe Oppenheim | GET-UP's teaching stats force the wrong conclusion

While GET-UP argues professors aren't teaching many classes, it's lecturers - not grad students - who are teaching most of the rest.
10/18/06 5:00am

Gabe Oppenheim | If we don't hear of rape, is it not there?

Two decades ago, a Penn report showed widespread assault, but today, students still fear coming forward.
10/11/06 5:00am

Gabe Oppenheim | She makes us sexy, Harvard be damned

Penn alum Winnifer Culter might not have made Harvard's list of most influential, but few others have the power to get you lovin'.
10/04/06 5:00am

Gabe Oppenheim | A year later, a much better reaction

For certain AlliedBarton security guards, the stench of garbage and the sight of rats marked the start of every work day for the past several months.
09/27/06 5:00am

Gabe Oppenheim | Without our help, a beacon of freedom faces death

Our country's most important ally in the war on terror is about to be killed, and most Americans don't even know it.
09/20/06 5:00am

Gabe Oppenheim | Learning from past segregation

Penn's lack of support for black students forced them to fend for themselves. The University shouldn't make the same mistake with international students.
08/31/06 5:00am

Gabe Oppenheim: The changing face of admissions

This school year marks the 40th since Penn adopted its modern undergraduate-admissions policy. Not that you'd know: The University hasn't held any essay competitions or thrown any parties, as it did last year in honor of Benjamin Franklin's 300th birthday.
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