Opinion Columns
Sally Engelhart | Why calories don’t count
Posting caloric information on restaurant menus doesn’t make people consume fewer calories, and it might actually be sabotaging people from making healthy food choices.
Cornelius Range V | Reality television gone wrong
Why do you know who Kim Kardashian is? Does anyone actually care? Somewhere along the way, reality TV took a turn for the worse and wound up with her.
Samantha Sharf | A portrait from a movement
The Occupy movement has been criticized for lacking a cohesive voice, but one artist has a message and plenty of stories to tell — including her own.
Charles Gray | A race that shouldn’t go unnoticed
On Nov. 8, in Philadelphia’s local elections, there is one race at the bottom of the ballot that is especially competitive and where there is an opportunity for political unity — the race for city commissioner.
Travis Cantrell | Plunging into the V-neck underworld
A columnist searches for answers within a society where V-necks reign supreme.
Rachel del Valle | Protest in ‘the people’s university’
Read a first-person account of Friday’s Occupy Eric Cantor demonstration.
Brian Goldman | A drawn-out war gets a drowned-out end
President Barack Obama’s announcement to withdraw all troops from Iraq by year’s end garnered relatively little attention but carries weighty implications.
Charles Gray | Get better — not bitter
Yesterday, we missed an opportunity to hear Eric Cantor talk about the solution to the problems our nation faces.
Ernest Owens | Internal racial paranoia at Penn
If minorities on campus want others to respect our presence, we must not be prejudiced amongst ourselves.
Mark Attiah | Bring the ‘House’ down
Medical dramas misrepresent the reality of life in a hospital. No matter how smart he is, in real life, House probably would have been fired from his job very, very quickly.
Sara Brenes-Akerman | Humanizing cape-less heroes
I expect my personal heroes to be perfect — to be the people whom I have meticulously imagined them to be. But remembering David Sedaris’ humanity made meeting him more rewarding.
Cornelius Range V | Occupying parallel realities
Most Penn students live in a different reality from those at the heart of the Occupy Wall Street protests. In order to fairly assess the movement, we have to step into this other reality.
Dan Bernick | School spirit on the Line
We can and should build a stronger community — athletics and beyond — at Penn. And it starts with the Line.
Charles Gray | A message to the 100 percent
The problem with Penn professors’ Occupy Wall Street solidarity statement is that it takes what happened in a few months in 2008 and uses it to explain the entire financial crisis.
Rachel del Valle | Copyrights, creativity and ‘Countdown’
Where is the line between homage and plagiarism drawn? When does a clever tribute by Beyoncé overstep its legality?
Brian Goldman | Occupying ‘Occupy Wall Street’
Penn professors’ recent solidarity statement concerning the Occupy Wall Street movement misguides the aim of the protests.
Ernest Owens | Making proud Penn students
Penn parents — prospective and present — should facilitate, not dictate, the career paths of their children.
Robert Hsu | Thank you for running
Even though it was easy to become annoyed by the freshman candidates, there is something we can learn from them.
Alexey Komissarouk | The hidden pitfalls of a dual degree
We don’t tell applicants to dual-degree programs that no matter how talented or driven a student may be, doing two things instead of one has a substantial opportunity cost.