Matt Mantica

I have this theory about life and regret. Senior year, and senior spring in particular, seems to be a perfect, natural time to think through these types of existential questions: it’s this inflection point, one where we break from the bubble of college into full on adulting.

On February 11th, 2015, we thought we had already reached the end. 

An attempt by the the United Auto Workers at the New School in New York City to organize is resurfacing the issue of whether graduate students at private nonprofit universities have a right to collective bargaining. 

Even as we change, the fact remains that journalism, when done well, can do great things.

After rising from eighth to seventh last year, Penn has fallen back down to eighth in U.S. News and World Report’s rankings of the nation’s best colleges.

When it comes to Penn Alexander, Penn is acting in its own self-interest. In helping create the school, which it did more than 10 years ago, the University was much more interested in creating a place of instruction for the children of its own faculty and staff than for the children of the West Philadelphia community at large.

By separating the government from the term “marriage,” perhaps we can discard some of the stigma against same-sex marriage — separating the church and the state in such a way could decrease the fear some religions have of same-sex marriages.

A rising surveillance state and an already stark decline in privacy points to a future where hardly anything one says or does can be private for long from the extensive gaze of the United States government. Unless we do something about it

Penn is in a position to influence more than the approximately 6,000 smokers on campus. Banning smoking would not only serve as an incentive for these individuals to lead a healthier lifestyle but may also have an effect on our peer institutions that are in need of change just as much as we are.