By Alex Jefferson ·
04/15/12 11:30pm
For the first time in recent memory, Spring Fling and Passover have coincided this year. Passover is arguably the most celebrated holiday in the Jewish faith. Fling is arguably the most celebrated tradition on the Penn calendar.
By Frank Colleluori ·
04/11/12 12:13am
Each spring, the Nominations & Elections Committee nominates undergraduate students to University-wide committees comprised of undergraduates, graduates, faculty and administrators. This year, we are accepting applications for 20 committees.
By Alex Zorach ·
04/09/12 1:04pm
We are all human and make mistakes. Most of us make numerous stupid, arrogant statements during our lives. What is gained by turning these statements into a cover story, especially a cover story that purports to present a public voice of Penn?
By Alexine Fleck ·
03/28/12 11:41pm
I am writing to ask you to repudiate publicly your book Body Count and accept responsibility for your contribution to the sort of racist climate that enables grown men to think that they are acting in self-defense when they gun down black male youths in cold blood.
By Tom Mullaney ·
03/23/12 12:06am
While Canada has a sterling reputation, he is not without some serious flaws. Paul Tough’s book, Whatever it Takes documents Canada kicking out an entire class of middle school students for having low test scores.
By Yumeng Zuo ·
03/20/12 11:31pm
The Chinese government often emphasizes the low cost of labor when trying to attract new investments. But should this be prioritized above the cost of lives and basic human rights?
By Ryan Vesey ·
03/21/12 12:05am
The difference between Thoreau’s civil disobedience and Chairez’s uncivil disobedience is that the actions taken by Thoreau did not directly affect the freedom and safety of others.
By Ann Farnsworth-Alvear ·
03/16/12 12:31am
No middle schooler growing up in the United States should be forced to realize that she has inherited an outsider status.
By Merlin Chowkwanyun ·
03/14/12 11:40pm
A graduate student calls for a more ‘critical perspective’ in a recent article about the Philadelphia Police’s new surveillance center.
By Gina Shin ·
03/12/12 11:35pm
Democracy works best when more people participate, and yet in states across the country and right here in Pennsylvania, our elected officials are devising ways to suppress voters.
By Nicholas Gonedes ·
02/28/12 10:01pm
In an article on Feb. 8, Max Nachman, director of CeasefirePA, defends Philly’s Stolen Handgun Reporting Law by asserting that people selling or giving away guns illegally cannot be prosecuted.
By Jonathan Newman ·
02/28/12 11:45pm
At a time when students are struggling more than ever to pay their tuition, Penn, a university with the seventh largest endowment in the country (over $6 billion), enforces a late-payment policy that is as inflexible as it is unfair.
By Jake Shuster ·
02/27/12 11:16pm
The $2,000,000 that the Board of Trustees allocates each year is not the student government’s money — it’s your money.
By PRISM ·
02/27/12 12:33am
This threatens the hard work of student leaders at Penn to create an environment that is tolerant and accepting of students from all backgrounds.
By Ariel Koren ·
02/23/12 10:15pm
Things aren’t perfect for women — or for men — at Penn or in the world. But I am thrilled to be in a time and on a campus in which I, as an individual, could be elected the president of my class on a platform of inclusion and embracement of diversity.
By Lauren Plotnick ·
02/23/12 10:15pm
Should we blame Koren for feeling uncomfortable that from day one in office, she became identified as the female that won the competitive election?
By The Daily Pennsylvanian ·
6 hours ago
As one of the first universities in the nation to adopt measures to reduce tax inequality based on sexual orientation, Penn once again has proven itself a leader in promoting LGBT equality.
By The Daily Pennsylvanian ·
05/15/12 12:34pm
The Daily Pennsylvanian decided the best and worst of Penn this semester
By The Daily Pennsylvanian ·
04/23/12 1:05pm
For Republicans, Romney stands out as the best choice. In comparison to Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and Texas Rep. Ron Paul, Romney has adopted a moderate stance and will pose the most productive challenge to President Barack Obama on key political and economic fronts.
By The Daily Pennsylvanian ·
04/12/12 10:51pm
One in four college women have survived rape or attempted rape, according to Department of Justice estimates. The number of women who report incidents, however, does not stack up.
By The Daily Pennsylvanian ·
04/04/12 12:04am
Now that the polls have closed and campaign posters are ready to retire from their spots on Locust Walk, we’d like to see newly elected members learn from each other and strive to create a more collaborative atmosphere within the UA.
By The Daily Pennsylvanian ·
03/27/12 11:10pm
College sophomore Dan Bernick and College and Wharton sophomore Abe Sutton have the qualities to lead the UA as President and Vice President respectively.
By The Daily Pennsylvanian ·
03/16/12 7:38pm
Chairez put a face to undocumented students across the United States and used her story in order to advocate for another individual.
By The Daily Pennsylvanian ·
03/02/12 12:39am
While a Penn education does not and should not take place in an ivory tower, it is the University’s responsibility to equip its students with the ability to think beyond the “harsh realities” of our time.
By The Daily Pennsylvanian ·
02/07/12 10:44pm
Penn BDS can be thanked for reinvigorated debates about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict among students, but the quality of these debates — which took place in closed circles — remains to be questioned.
By The Daily Pennsylvanian ·
02/01/12 10:37pm
If the UA stays on the alcohol policy review committee, the proposal is doomed for failure. The confirmed hazing incidents have tarnished the UA’s credibility among students, faculty and administrators.
By The Daily Pennsylvanian ·
02/01/12 1:44am
Arguments that Penn should not allow students to pursue ASL as part of a traditional minor because it lacks the same legitimacy as Chinese, Spanish, French or Arabic, are not grounded in truth.
By Dana Tom ·
01/12/12 12:13am
Reach out to us. Tell us if we get something wrong. Tell us what you want to read and if you want to write. Tell us what about our content enrages or engages you. Tell us what you think.
By The Daily Pennsylvanian ·
12/09/11 2:55am
Now that the circumstances of Occupy Philadelphia have shifted, the movement itself must shift as well.
By The Daily Pennsylvanian ·
11/30/11 1:42am
For the good of Penn’s student body — and for the good of society — economic diversity must remain a top priority.
By The Daily Pennsylvanian ·
11/10/11 9:31pm
Hazing within the UA should not be tolerated — now is the time to address the larger issue.
By The Daily Pennsylvanian ·
11/03/11 12:58am
It’s important to bring attention to problems with Penn Course Review, but the solution cannot be to stop using it altogether.
By The Daily Pennsylvanian ·
11/08/11 12:33am
The events that occurred on campus after Eric Cantor canceled his lecture exemplified both the best and the worst of our community — and raised questions of access.
By The Daily Pennsylvanian ·
09/30/11 12:18pm
SAC’s new repayment plan is an effective way to make student groups accountable for their spending. But it absolutely should not have taken SAC so long to act.
By The Daily Pennsylvanian ·
09/20/11 2:37am
Penn Park has a multitude of benefits, but the question remains — will students actually go that far east to utilize it?
By Lauren Plotnick ·
09/16/11 12:52am
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By Josh Bolton ·
6 hours ago
But to be honest, “summer break” has never made much sense to me. Yeah, it’s a break from all the work and stress of the academic year — but sometimes all the work of the school year feels like a break from the “real work” we accomplish during the warm months.
By Arielle Pardes ·
7 hours ago
While there isn’t a scientific consensus on why people tend to find romance during the summer, lovers in pop culture (think: Danny and Sandy in “Grease,” Noah and Allie in “The Notebook,” Johnny and Baby in “Dirty Dancing”) combined with our own experiences confirm that summer is the season for getting frisky.
By Sara Brenes-Akerman ·
05/11/12 4:05am
I am four years older than the kid that cried at the airport, four years more certain of who I am and four years more confident. But I’m not quite sure of all that much, except that the past four years have been good.
By Brian Goldman ·
05/12/12 1:15pm
Graduation is the nudge that gets us out of college and into the real world.
By Charles Gray ·
05/11/12 3:31am
Words in a column, book or a speech, for that matter, mean nothing without action to supplement them.
By Samantha Sharf ·
05/11/12 3:50am
At 15 years old, I already harbored fantasies of bylines containing my name. If that were the whole story it would, of course, be a very boring one. My path up till now must look nauseatingly straightforward from the outside. But like most students, my years at Penn have been anything but simple and very different from what I expected.
By Zachary Bell ·
05/11/12 1:32am
I began May Day eager to see a space that embodied the movement’s values. However, after 12 hours of activism, this other world that Occupy was trying to create seemed messy and racked by many of the contradictions that haunted the New Left in the 1960s.
By Sally Engelhart ·
04/25/12 3:03am
We all know from experience that the perception of time passing is not constant. Just think about how quickly the hour of an exam can fly by or how slowly an hour lecture can.
By Rachel del Valle ·
04/25/12 2:15am
I’ll be leaving on a jet plane. Soon — I mean, relatively soon. I’m studying abroad in London next semester. Now that classes are over, that statement actually feels like it means something.
By Zachary Bell ·
04/25/12 12:04am
Ironically, the knowledge I have gained from my liberal arts education is exactly what has made the reward for its completion confounding.
By Hayley Brooks and Ali Kokot ·
04/25/12 12:05am
Open dialogue between the sexes at Penn is just not happening because the “game” we subscribe to requires crafty disingenuity.
By Brian Goldman ·
04/23/12 11:54pm
Young people are often lamented for their lack of organization and mobilization around youth causes. But I’m not sure if this will ever shift, because young people hold such varied political viewpoints.
By Aya Saed ·
04/23/12 12:11am
The Class of 2016 — who will be joining us next fall — promises to be more diverse and representative of the shifting demographics in this country. The increased diversity creates new potential to unite students from all walks of life.
By Ernest Owens ·
04/23/12 12:11am
Penn’s current policy encourages students to become repeated offenders and develop poor health habits.
By Joseph An ·
04/23/12 12:11am
No one can be defined. Asian Americans, through all their struggles, are not asking to be viewed as comic book victims or heroes.
By Charles Gray ·
04/23/12 12:11am
The whole weekend is built around the idea of the momentary. After all, that’s why they call it a “fling.”
By Kyle Henson ·
04/18/12 11:42pm
It would be naive to think that the obnoxious type-A personalities that helped many of us get here in the first place disappeared after our matriculation.
By Hayley Brooks and Ali Kokot ·
04/18/12 11:42pm
From the guys at Allegro’s who served us pizza at 3 o’clock in the morning, to the accepted students who toured Penn for the very first time — we were curious about how Fling fared for those on the periphery.
By Rachel del Valle ·
04/16/12 11:19pm
Our culture — especially the microcosm of Penn — values effortlessness, or perhaps more accurately, the appearance of effortlessness.
By Brian Goldman ·
04/16/12 11:19pm
Spring Fling accomplishes something that is awfully hard to find elsewhere during most of the academic year. It offers full, unbounded relief from stress and we embrace it like no other.
