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The culture at Penn isn’t one that would support an event like Nudity Week — and that’s a shame.
What is our duty when someone insults our race? Do we have an obligation to society and fellow citizens to go on a tirade?
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Clarissa O'Conor
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Oct. 7, 2013
Some of my Palestinian friends and peers have applied multiple times for a permit to travel to Jerusalem, only to have Israel deny them multiple times.
I came to Penn aspiring to be just that: an academic, entrepreneur or travel writer. I now find myself in consulting interviews, reciting how my education and internship experience in journalism have prepared me for business strategy.
The fact that we can dismiss people, relationships and interactions we’re not proud of after four years doesn’t mean that those actions don’t define our character.
The fact that we can dismiss people, relationships and interactions we’re not proud of after four years doesn’t mean that those actions don’t define our character.
The culture at Penn isn’t one that would support an event like Nudity Week — and that’s a shame.
What is our duty when someone insults our race? Do we have an obligation to society and fellow citizens to go on a tirade?
Accomplishments require strategically straddling a line between deliberate self-unawareness and critical self-awareness.
“Breaking Bad” drew the golden line between inconceivable action scenes and soft human emotions.
I’ve heard about the same personal struggles and issues from many people — some of which I’ve experienced too. Given the pervasiveness of these topics, I’ve decided to address a few.
We spend a lot of time with the figments of writers’ imaginations, sometimes forgetting that that’s what they are.
If a state allows for concealed carry, then there is no defensible reason for universities to enforce a zone of defenselessness.
Newspapers like to say that journalism is the first rough draft of history, but even for a rough draft, it’s often pretty bad.
The DP should be more active in curating the comments section. When the author is directly attacked, or if the commenter goes off on some tangent unrelated to the topic of the article, the comment should be removed.
Should we really be proud when we sleep less, or take pride in taking six classes just because it sounds like a lot?
There’s a subscription service for everything. But will the subscription commerce model work for sex?
When I respond, saying that I am Tamil, many people have asked me, mostly jokingly, if I am a Tamil Tiger.
Last week’s response to the Navy Yard shootings was different because the country’s sentiment concerning gun violence has changed. Our anger confirmed that, in 2013, we have found ourselves in a post-NRA America.
Though the Miss America Pageant is problematic in it’s narrow, superficial method of validating women on a national stage, we are pleased to see the pageant pay homage to the melting pot that America prides itself on being.
It is a fallacy to think that you can be apolitical in an intensely political context and an intensely political world.
When your research begins to step into the fray of politics, your motives immediately start to come into question.
