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Opinion Columns

09/18/13 11:41pm
When I came to Penn, I brought that superhero mindset with me. If anyone asked me how I was doing, I’d answer, “Good!” It’s easy to give that automatic response and move on — I mean, is Superman ever not good?
09/18/13 5:43pm

Arielle Pardes | Playing Playboy

Unlike many of our peer institutions, Penn has made it a priority to promote conversations about consent.
09/17/13 7:43pm
It’s surprising how quickly we can forget to be aware of things beyond ourselves if we don’t make a conscious effort to do so.
09/17/13 7:09pm
If we have this much dedication towards making only money, we might as well call it what it is: a religion.
09/16/13 10:21pm
Technology companies are constantly improving and refining their products, but our incessant desire for a game changer has forced them to market touch-ups as turning points.
09/16/13 3:46pm
Instead of telling you that “college flies by” or “it’s the shortest four years of your life,” I have a new tidbit of advice: Stop using the word “sometime.”
09/16/13 2:07am
I have a theory that the student body of Penn is composed of maybe 30 percent introverts, and of that 30 percent, about half of those spend their first few years trying to pretend they’re extroverts like everyone else.
09/15/13 3:44pm
Uber brings a better, more efficient service to consumers — and that threatens the livelihood of entrenched taxi unions and the City Hall politicians and bureaucrats beholden to their interests.
09/15/13 3:31pm
It’s easy to think we need an even higher GPA and more impressive extracurriculars if we are to compete with students from HYP.
09/12/13 4:45pm

Arielle Pardes | Digital Get Down

In most cases, sexting holds the same appeal as any other erotic act — the only difference is that it’s digitalized.
09/11/13 4:10pm
Amidst all of the noise about Syria coming from the talking heads in Washington, a bigger point has largely been ignored.
09/10/13 8:07pm
There is a large discrepancy between the medically accepted notions of healthy bodies and the images encouraged by popular culture, and I’m not the only one who’s been affected by it.
09/09/13 10:13pm
We’re seeing senior women with full courseloads, a work-study or part-time job, relationships and leadership positions who, shockingly, want to take a few hours to themselves sometimes. What’s so wrong with that? Washed up? We think not.
09/09/13 7:36pm
According to some analysts, Amazon Prime is part of a huge scheme to alter the way internet consumers consume.
09/08/13 11:56pm
Acting like a real person means, essentially, acting like a grown-up, an adult. But it doesn’t have the same, sad, unexciting connotation as those other terms.
09/08/13 6:15pm
The discourse of empowerment makes us feel good about putting a Band-Aid on something while avoiding actually questioning our role in systematic racism, oppression and injustice.
09/08/13 3:21pm
The ivory tower is often derided for how elitist and out of touch it is, but isolation from the world is a good and necessary thing.
09/05/13 4:59pm
Every year that I have been at Penn, I have been chilled by the premature deaths in our University community.
09/05/13 4:56pm
More than an eighth of the undergraduates at Penn are international students and a significant fraction of the faculty is also foreign, meaning that under FISA, the government can track all their communications.
09/05/13 11:53am
It is possible to divorce supporting the troops as a whole political entity from respecting the individuals who serve.