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Opinion Columns

02/02/12 12:11am

Arielle Pardes | Keeping up with your sexaminations

The consequences of sex-gone-wrong have become an epidemic among college students in the United States.
02/01/12 3:09am

Ruben Gur | BDS is 'hateful', 'discriminatory'

I read with amazement the Guest Column by Penn BDS Conference organizers, BDS Explained. I could barely believe my eyes.
02/01/12 1:42am
Art can and should be political.
02/01/12 1:33am
When the government or another authority continually steps in as a virtuous purveyor of wisdom, it creates a culture that prevents personal responsibility.
01/31/12 1:58am
Just a few months ago, I was complicit in On-Campus Recruiting. As suits traipse into interview rooms this week, I think it’s time to examine this tradition of competition through its history and recent critiques.
01/31/12 1:49am
In an increasingly competitive landscape, students should arm themselves with as many languages as possible.
01/30/12 1:14am
It’s no secret that flaunting sex appeal is a prerequisite for being a pop star. But there’s a fine line between owning your attractiveness and being eclipsed by it.
01/30/12 1:09am
Luckily, my encounter on Saturday left me with minimal injury, but I learned one thing — that the Bystander Effect is very much alive.
01/27/12 1:46am
Penn students are eager to integrate themselves into the community and ensure that things change for the better. But it’s time to also gather momentum in combating an issue of life and death.
01/27/12 1:43am
Although I do not ever intend to be the national spokesperson for Abstinence America, I do not see anything wrong with the campus promoting this ideal as much as they do contraceptives at the Penn Women’s Center or the LGBT Center.
01/25/12 11:54pm
We are actually happier when we have limited options.
01/24/12 11:42pm
I may be a disillusioned music-purist who needs to face the music, but I see a troubling trend that is set to ruin an art form I revere greatly.
01/24/12 12:56am
With every basement encounter, we fall further and further from engaging each other in a meaningful way. More often than not, you don’t even face your partner.
01/24/12 12:50am
We don’t spend $50,000 a year over four years just to read textbooks and have our beliefs reinforced. We want to hear brilliant opinions and arguments from our professors.
01/23/12 1:20am
With the recent closing of Fine Wine & Good Spirits on 41st and Market streets, our campus has reverted to its Prohibition-era existence.
01/23/12 1:15am
In the U.S., race is a trick question. I don’t know what the solution is, but I do know that our current system isn’t working. If Hispanics hope to gain the political influence to correspond with their growing population, we need to be counted as something distinct.
01/20/12 12:24am
We Penn students pride ourselves on how green we think we are, but — in actuality — our efforts are not as effective as we all assume.
01/20/12 12:19am
If the Stop Online Privacy Act passed and went into effect, I think I would miss Kanye West’s tweets the most.
01/19/12 2:19am
If these videos exclusively targeted one particular group or gender, I would have questioned their humor. But as it turns out, just about everyone says that are worth making fun of.