Opinion Columns
Arielle Pardes | Can’t we all just dance?
The twerk used to be just a bouncy dance that came of age in a culture where people just wanted to get down and have a good time. It was good, clean fun.
Ola Osinaike | Pretentious Pennsylvania
Demeaning the Penn State name is just another identity crisis of our University.
Ryan Daniels | Closing the chasm
Many professionals in the corporate world spend plenty of time on public interest projects. Unfortunately, few students — including myself over the past few years — know about these people.
Arjun Gupta | Pilot
Rather than feeling more oriented to Penn, all of this has left me feeling a bit lost and confused.
Rachel del Valle | Hands off
In most situations, hugs are an inordinately intimate greeting. Sometimes I find myself in the grasp of a hug with someone who I’d never even had a one-on-one conversation with.
Caroline Brand | Girl meets world
Over the summer, transitioning from a loud college student to a perfectly postured professional was tough.
Kurt Mitman | Summer of our discontent
While the boycott has succeeded in raising awareness, the philosophy of it is misguided.
Robert Hsu | That’s so Asian
If other minorities can have developed characters — think Kurt from “Glee” or Sophia from “Orange is the New Black” — why can’t Asian-Americans?Arielle Pardes | The freshman fetish
Over the past week, as freshmen have become oriented (or disoriented) on campus, their sex appeal is at its peak.
Sindhuri Nandhakumar | Returning to Neverland
Originally, I wasn’t quite sure what I wanted from my time off, but now I realize that what I wanted was a renewed sense of hope and imagination. And I’m happy to say that I found that.
?Ali Kokot & Hayley Brooks | Share the toil, get more spoils
After New York summers spent at Nickelodeon and in the food business, we got a preview of how our two-brained efforts at Penn will soon translate into the professional world.
?Ryan Daniels | Making my greasy mark
When I graduate at the end of this year, I’ve been promised my own sandwich printed on the Bui’s food truck menu.
The city where I'll never sleep
I always wanted to move to New York City. Ironically, now that I’m at the age where moving to New York on my own is a possibility, I’m coming up with more cons than pros.
(Sky)diving into it
In elementary school, I made an unhealthy amount of lists. I was, to say the least, the opposite of an impulsive child. Earlier this week, however, I jumped out of a plane.
Divya Ramesh | A solution of a different color
As I have learned, peppering racial tensions with humor combats an uncomfortable situation because it counteracts a negative vibe with the positive lightness that comes with humor.
Matt Mantica | The value of a child
When it comes to Penn Alexander, Penn is acting in its own self-interest. In helping create the school, which it did more than 10 years ago, the University was much more interested in creating a place of instruction for the children of its own faculty and staff than for the children of the West Philadelphia community at large.
Jennifer Yu | Under the knife
My problem with this is that the best way to improve self-image shouldn’t be a superficial change at all. A better form of “self-improvement,” whether for others or for yourself, would be to go for a run or to read a book, instead of looking simply to erase perceived imperfections that we are told define us as people.