Opinion Columns
Allison Santa-Cruz | Penn housing needs serious reform
Columnist Allison Santa-Cruz discusses changes that can be made to improve Penn's college housing.
Surayya Walters | Read this before you accept your return offer
Columnist Surayya Walters discusses how to find happiness without a return offer.
Daniel Andre Gurevitch | Car crashes and thank yous
Columnist Daniel Andre Gurevitch reflects on gratitude and memories after his grandmother was critically injured in a hit-and-run.
Isabella Glassman | How to keep students caught up in class
Columnist Isabella Glassman argues that Penn professors must make more accommodations to ensure Penn students who miss class for health reasons aren't being punished
Connor Gibson | Artichokes still have doubts
Columnist Connor Gibson revisits Marina Keegan's essay "Even artichokes have doubts" 10 years later.
Jaden Cloobeck | Why people don't intervene to prevent harm, and what can be done to change that
Columnist Jaden Cloobeck explores bystanderism, offering an analysis of why so many turned a blind eye when a Penn student was beaten at a Castle fraternity party.
Allison Santa-Cruz | We need to rethink the function of modern fraternities
Columnist Allison Santa-Cruz looks at the historical roots of fraternities and sees how ideas of service could be brought back to the modern day.
Penn Leads the Vote | Youth have power — but if we don’t vote, we’ll lose it
Penn Leads The Vote argues that Penn students must register to and regularly vote in order to shape national politics.
Caroline Magdolen | How many lanternflies have you stomped today?
Caroline Magdolen encourages us to give back to the local ecosystem, even in urban spaces like Philadelphia, as seemingly harmless inaction can lead to exponential damage in the long run.Columnist Caroline Magdolen argues that we need to pay more attention to Philadelphia's ailing ecosystem and squash lanterflies!
Taja Mazaj | The pandemic isn’t going away — and Penn isn’t prepared
Columnist Taja Mazaj argues that Penn is ignoring the tools it already has to avoid a campus outbreak of COVID-19.
Emily Chang | How to make dining on campus a better experience
Columnist Emily Chang discusses simple changes to make the dining halls run more efficiently.
Asaad Manzar | How I used honesty and action to overcome my anxiety
Columnist Asaad Manzar discusses his experiences with social anxiety in college, and how he overcame it.
Lexi Boccuzzi | Are we placing politics above public health?
Columnist Lexi Boccuzzi discusses how vaccine and mask mandates are intertwining politics and public health, which will have drastic consequences for the future of crisis response.
Andy Yoon | A last plea for climate action
Columnist Andy Yoon discusses the long-term implications of our fossil fuel emissions and how the world will change in the next decades, regardless of our actions.
Jaden Cloobeck | Some college friendships don't last a lifetime
Columnist Jaden Cloobeck discusses his experiences developing friendship at Penn.
Isabella Glassman | Penn, what’s your quarantine plan?
Columnist Isabella Glassman discusses Penn's confusing web of COVID-19 policies and restrictions.
Caroline Magdolen | Saplings in Juniper Valley Park
Columnist and New Yorker Caroline Magdolen reflects on how her Brooklyn neighborhood comes together each year to remember those who died on and as a result of 9/11.
Lexi Boccuzzi | 9/11: Have we already forgotten?
Columnist Lexi Boccuzzi looks at how political apathy is already shaping our reactions to 9/11 and how it's imperative that we take "never forget" to heart.
Jaden Cloobeck | Why commemorating 9/11 matters more than ever
Columnist Jaden Cloobeck urges students to learn about family and friends' stories of 9/11 in order to preserve this part of living history.
