Opinion Columns
Divya Ramesh | Not worth the wait
Last week, as I stood alongside a man with “Penn Maintenance” embroidered on his jacket, I received a very didactic response as I rambled on about the motivational power of a Friday evening.
Xavier Flory | A beautiful game
It’s that time of year. Grab a wurst and sit back for the sporting highlight of the year. No, I’m not talking about March Madness. I refer to the quarterfinals of the UEFA Champions League, the annual tournament for the best footballing clubs in Europe.
Kurt Mitman | ’Til Constitution do us part
This issue goes beyond the question of straight and gay marriage currently before the court.
Robert Hsu | Give me your best shot
There will always be people who don’t like you, who want to be mean to you and who will put you down. It is impossible to control others, but we do have control over ourselves. When it comes to bullying, we have to worry less about the bullies and more about the victims.
Adam Silver | Rethinking and reforming College requirements
This is the problem with requirements: they don’t make sense. So many courses that obviously should fill them just don’t.Joke Issue: Don’t oppose the majority’s authority (DOMA)
Today, the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments about the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act.
Rachel del Valle | Now or later
Because sometimes you don’t actually have that much to do. At the end of every horrible week, there’s a calm, and you can either choose to embrace it or unnecessarily stress yourself out about the next thing.
Caroline Brand | I think, therefore you are
Especially at Penn — a world in which six degrees of separation feels more like two — it’s all too easy to “know” someone despite never having met them.
Anthony Liveris | Information overload
The pursuit of legislation has been sidelined for the pursuit of finding true news. The creative side of entertainment is intersecting with the content, leaving us satisfied with the story, not the necessary results.
Divya Ramesh | Empty apologies
Sorry has become the panacea, but the word is caving under the weight of our demands.Paulo Bautista and Ana Bautista | For one another
We are a place of tolerance, appreciation of diversity and respect. Except this Friday, when there is a party planned with the tagline, “Join the brothers of St. Elmo for a night of papal blasphemy. Let’s get sacrilegious in honor of Pope Francis, a true minister to the poor, the sick, and the blackout.”
Kurt Mitman | A wasted opportunity
Obama should have used his visit to Israel to put forth a comprehensive proposal for peace and the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Jeff Nadel | We are criminals
Every weekend, college campuses across the country are transformed into hotbeds of crime by misguided laws with track records of abysmal failure.
Morgan Jones | The internet giveth, and it taketh away
On July 1, 2013, Google will be discontinuing Google Reader, a RSS feed that displays all your news sources, blogs and sites of personal interest in one place. This instance does, however, point to one glaring fact that we internet users like to forget: everything we store on the internet is under the control of someone else, and we don’t have much of a say if that controller decides to take it all away.
Adam Silver | Beneath the border
What is basically a prohibition of drugs in the United States and of guns in Mexico creates an extraordinary demand for the illicit products in each country — a demand addressed by drug cartels.Arielle Pardes | Save pornography
If we want better models for sex, then banning pornography is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Hayley Brooks & Ali Kokot | Why isn’t Lena leaning
But as we look to past pop culture role models of ours, the girls from “Girls,” Lena Dunham’s hit HBO series, we’re confused. In their sour season two finale last Sunday night, they represent the antithesis of Sandberg’s message.
Lauren Agresti | Reinventing Rejection
It’s okay to have no clue what you’re doing after finals are finished.
Rachel del Valle | What’s the age again?
So every once in a while, it’s a bit jarring to pause and realize that I’m living in 2013, in the United States, with a biracial president — and there’s still a current of latent prejudice everywhere.