Opinion Columns
Diya Choksey | Paris or Penn? The love incubator
Columnist Diya Choksey explores the clash between her family’s enduring love stories at Penn and today’s hookup culture, reflecting on whether our quest for connection has been replaced by a pursuit of independence and social status.
Alyma Karbownik | Profile vs person: How genuine is the roommate search?
Columnist Alyma Karbownik explores how our carefully curated profiles hide the authenticity vital for finding a compatible roommate.
Elijah Ramirez | Fish-ing for the first-year experience
Columnist Elijah Ramirez calls on Penn Residential Services to improve their operations to better assist first-year students.
Piper Slinka-Petka | To learn anything at Penn, believe you’re the dumbest person in the room
Columnist Piper Slinka-Petka illustrates how Penn students can overcome imposter syndrome by using it to their advantage.
Ingrid Holmquist | You didn’t ‘earn’ your safety
Columnist Ingrid Holmquist explores how student entitlement fuels harmful rhetoric and ideas about the West Philadelphia community.
Sophia Zhang | We deserve more: Confronting the limits of campus safety
Guest Columnist Sophia Zhang shares a personal account of the limitations of campus security and law enforcement following an assault on her friend, highlighting the need for systemic reform and increased legal awareness.
Ashti Tiwari | Let’s all be more civic-minded
Columnist Ashti Tiwari calls on students to take part in many civic engagement opportunities so we can give back to the surrounding community.
Tiyya Geiger | Starting over: We need to learn how to be a first year again
Columnist Tiyya Geiger emphasizes meaningful friendships over short-term acquaintances as more beneficial in the long term.
Mia Vesely | How Penn's new discourse guidelines impact clubs and students alike
Columnist Mia Vesely expresses how Penn’s new discourse guidelines stifle student voices, on and off campus.
Madeline Kohn | Let us grieve
Guest Columnist Madeline Kohn reflects on the University’s heavy-handed response to an on-campus vigil last Friday.
Julu Nwaezeapu | We need principled neutrality
Columnist Julu Nwaezeapu argues in favor of universities assuming neutral stances on political issues while contending that Penn must continue to protect historically disadvantaged students, even as it remains politically neutral.
Jack Lakis | America needs to ditch the Ivy League
Columnist Jack Lakis investigates the popular obsession with prestige.
Eric Najera | For everyone’s sake, take handwritten notes
Columnist Eric Najera argues that avoiding the use of laptops benefits all students.
Francesco Salamone | The beauty of not knowing what to do with your life
Columnist Francesco Salamone argues that the relentless pursuit of certainty robs us of one simple gift: the liberation found in embracing uncertainty.
Lindsay Muneton ⎹ The struggles of being 'too rich'
Columnist Lindsay Muneton criticizes the University’s financial aid policies, encouraging the expansion of highly aided status.
Marie Dillard | ‘Don’t go past 40th Street’
Columnist Marie Dillard articulates how our discourse about West Philadelphia contributes to its stigmatization amongst students, especially first years.
Solemei Scamaroni | Pics or it didn’t happen
Columnist Solemei Scamaroni dissects the obsession with online SABSing and how it undermines authenticity, urging self awareness.
Niheer Patel | Invested in silence
Columnist Niheer Patel argues that the actions of Penn’s top brass in the past few years have shown a clear dedication to silencing student dissent.
Arshiya Pant | Pennsylvania progressives, stop saying you want to ‘beat out’ rural voters
Columnist Arshiya Pant argues that our misconceptions of rural Americans hurt democracy.