10/10/16 9:44pm
I had two weeks of heavy restrictions in a row: first, a Jain diet, second, no more than 100 words used per day.
10/05/16 12:15am
This Monday, for the second time in less than a month, Brother Aden and his ragtag cadre of anti-gay “preachers” took up residence at the Button for a few hours to spew the noxious garbage that they confuse with theology.
Don’t worry.
10/05/16 12:13am
My best friend and I throw around the term “banana” all the time. We see an Asian girl who only hangs out with white people, and we call her “banana!” I forget to take my shoes off when I enter his house, and he goes, “banana!” Then we laugh hysterically at how funny we think we are.
“Banana” is an intrinsically troublesome term.
10/03/16 11:55pm
For quite some time, I’ve struggled with mental health. That battle has been a personal one, and I’m glad to be in the stable and generally happy position I am now.
10/03/16 11:53pm
When I learned that I had received a scholarship to study at Cambridge this past summer, and consequently would be going to Europe for the first time in my life, I was so excited I couldn’t sit still.
10/01/16 1:22am
GROUP THINK is the DP’s round table section, where we throw a question at the columnists and see what answers stick.
09/29/16 12:26am
One of the problems that have baffled journalists for months now is Hillary Clinton’s extraordinary unpopularity.
09/29/16 12:24am
Dear Amy Gutmann, Vincent Price, Valarie Swain-Cade McCoullum and Monica Yant Kinney,
I, as a black student, do not feel safe on this campus.
In light of all of the violence that has and continues to occur to black and brown bodies in this country, I have one question for you all: Is it so difficult to, at the very least, write a letter speaking out against the genocide that is occurring across this nation?
It’s perplexing to me that you choose to remain silent, as approximately 7 percent of your student body, a 7 percent which I am a part of, grieves and mourns the lives of those with our same complexion.
09/27/16 10:51pm
There’s a particular reaction that folks like me — who worry openly about the presence and spread of “trigger warnings” on American campuses — hear a lot.
09/27/16 10:50pm
I’d wager that more than half of the Penn student body either watched the presidential debate on Monday or at least kept track of it somehow.
09/26/16 10:39pm
Public space is always around, which is maybe why we forget its potential for discourse. With larger growth in online spaces, social networking sites specifically, physical public space no longer holds tangible influence over us.
Yet following the wide-scale flyer incident, then the homophobic preachers and their counter-protesters, we are reminded of the presence of human voices expressing opinions in the public sphere.
09/25/16 11:35pm
When I was in high school, eating disorders were coming into their own as a public health menace.
09/25/16 11:33pm
Why did I first want to take the monk class, back when I first heard about it in freshman year? It would be a fantastic way to get the cheekbones I’ve always wanted; I’ll be able to read the shit I definitely should have read by now (Ulysses, anyone?); I’ll finally have time to write and be super introspective and know my true self and I’m totes contemplative and everyone will think I’m badass and wise.
Why do I want to take the monk class now? I don’t know. I have no idea what’s going to happen. That’s precisely the appeal.
09/24/16 1:29pm
GROUP THINK is the DP’s round table section, where we throw a question at the columnists and see what answers stick.
09/20/16 11:36pm
This past Saturday, just before the start of Penn’s first home Varsity football game, two members of the Penn cheerleading squad “[made] a statement,” according to a photo tweeted out by the Penn athletics department.
09/20/16 11:34pm
I believe in God. I’m almost hesitant to start with that, because I know immediately many people will write me off.
09/20/16 12:00am
I dread waiting for the elevator in Penn’s high rise buildings almost as much as I dread the actual elevator ride itself.
I dread standing in the awkwardly clustered group of people waiting for the elevators, all of whom make sure to maintain a certain distance from everyone around them and constantly look downward, faces buried in their phones.
09/19/16 11:58pm
Last Thursday, the two worst preachers in America showed up on Penn campus. As far as I could tell, they failed to convert a single student to the word of the lord.
09/18/16 10:18pm
To commemorate last week’s anniversary of September 11th, members of Occidental College’s Republican Club planted 2,997 American flags — one for each victim of the attack — on their campus green, all of which were later removed by student protesters.
09/18/16 10:15pm
Midterms loom, recruiting rages on. Winter cannot be far behind.
Having been away from Penn for the last two years, I naturally couldn’t wait to get back and live the good life.
