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Guest Column | Remembering the glory years

Technology has sadly de-emphasized the use of a yearbook for posterity

September 29, 2009

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.'

December 6, 2006

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.

November 29, 2006

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.

November 22, 2006

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.

November 15, 2006

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.

November 8, 2006

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.

November 1, 2006

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.

October 18, 2006

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'.

October 11, 2006

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.

October 4, 2006

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.

September 27, 2006

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.

September 20, 2006

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.

August 31, 2006

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