Opinion Columns
Sindhuri Nandhakumar | Gastronomic gutcheck
I think we overspend a lot of our money on food. Yes, a sandwich from Houston Market is convenient, but do we really need to be spending six or seven dollars on an uninspired meal every day?
Ryan Daniels | Hot for cold calls
So in a recent lecture, where class-directed question after class-directed question went unanswered, floating over the turned-down heads of slouching students, I couldn’t help but wonder: What ever happened to cold-calling?
Clarissa O'Conor | Today’s tear gas brought to you by the United States
Some classmates and I were eating breakfast before our next classes at a cafe right across the street and therefore had front-row seats, unable to leave the cafe for the duration of the assault.
JY Lee | A season of Thanksgiving
With Thanksgiving as our ultimate feast of gratitude, here’s a toast to all my professors who have nurtured my inchoate mind.Arielle Pardes | The contraception problem
The complaints about hormonal birth control pills are extensive: They make women feel moody, bloated, tired, excessively horny, nauseous and so much more.
Morgan Jones | Why you should be passionless
Robert Frost erred when he said to take the path less traveled — always travel in herds, and don’t look around.
Ryan Daniels | Lover's quarrel
Ford’s supporters seem to forget that this wasn’t a legally ambiguous sex(ting) scandal — it was an elected official breaking the law by abusing a banned substance.
Ola Osinaike | Fading friendships
A few days ago, I had a deep conversation with a friend — something that I had been missing for a while.
Kurt Mitman | Obama-Doesn’t-Care
It’s great to know that the healthcare.gov site is working for the massive 1.6 percent of the population that is running Linux.
Xavier Flory | Is specialization the problem?
At Penn, I am continually impressed with the accomplishments of my fellow students but often underwhelmed by their ability to justify why those accomplishments and causes are important.
Rachel del Valle | What's all the buzz about?
It seems that, especially on a college campus, reading for pleasure has become a rare activity.
Robert Hsu | E-Cigarettes: The evil new kid?
To declare e-cigarettes a silver bullet to smoking simply because it is the lesser of two evils is to blatantly ignore the lessons we have learned from tobacco control.Arielle Pardes | Stop cyberstalking your ex
Actively engaging, instead of the one-sided cyberstalking that we’re wont to do, can help tame the feelings of insanity, jealousy and powerlessness that come from seeing our exes all over the internet.
Ali Kokot & Hayley Brooks | ACBeware
Anyone with a beating heart understands that writing these posts is mean, but it might be a whole lot more than mean. Beyond just being a jerk, you could be liable for a big legal headache.
Ryan Daniels | Dialing back
The average American gets a new phone every 22 months. Isn’t that a little crazy?
Clarissa O'Conor | An ordinary Tuesday morning in Palestine?
According to the Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions, which keeps track of Israel’s destruction of Palestinian property, Israel has destroyed 527 Palestinian homes in 2013.
Rachel del Valle | The most wonderful time of the year?
I used to dislike the commercialization, the overeagerness surrounding the “Most Wonderful Time of the Year.” But now I see that maybe it’s not such a bad thing.Arielle Pardes | Happy whore-o-ween
The outfit you wear does not prescribe your actions for Halloween night — and maybe we should stop calling them “slutty” costumes altogether.