Opinion Columns
Amy Chan | If God is love, what is homosexuality?
I believe in God. I’m almost hesitant to start with that, because I know immediately many people will write me off.
Emily Hoeven | Elevator pitch
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.
Aaron Cooper | Butting in = Heaven
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.
Cameron Dichter | How we remember
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.
James Lee | The myth of the "Penn Face"
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.
Group Think | Flyering & Penn party culture
GROUP THINK is the DP’s round table section, where we throw a question at the columnists and see what answers stick.
Joe Tharakan | Overlooking Opioids
Opioid dependency – and subsequent heroin addiction – has skyrocketed over the last 15 years.
Jeremiah Keenan | Penn’s “gender wage gap”
Two weeks ago The Daily Pennsylvanian highlighted a claim in a recent Senate Committee report that there is a gender wage gap at Penn.
Alec Ward | We can cause accidents too
You may not have heard about this, but OZ sent a sleazy email which got leaked. Just kidding. Unless you live under a rock, you know about what I’m now calling #OzGate. Personally, I have mixed feelings about how campus has reacted to the exposure of the crude poem. Let me be clear, I have little interest in defending the email itself. The sentiments expressed in the lines of truly terrible poetry indicate some attitudes I find deeply troubling.
Alessandro van den Brink | Trust falls
Over the summer, Penn introduced a major tweak to its Early Decision application process that prevents students from applying Early Decision to Penn and Early Action to another private university.
Amanda Reid |Owning labels
I’ve never doubted who I was. Asian, White, Mixed, Girl, Young—any of these could apply, but none of these mattered.
Ashley Stinnett | Beyond the draft
I call myself a writer, but I haven’t published anything in the three years I’ve been at this university.
Harrison Glicklich | We need more writing seminars
I was arguably a better writer after four years of high school than I am now, after four years of some of the most expensive postsecondary education that money can buy.Group Think | Is TAP Effective?
GROUP THINK is the DP’s round table section, where we throw a question at the columnists and see what answers stick.
Amy Chan | Take the Penn Face off
During last semester's Reading Days, my sister came to see me, and we decided to take a weekend trip to New York.
Alec Ward | Screen pass
It’s official — the College Houses have out-TV’d my dad. As reported in a DP news article by Ray Pomponio, starting this year College House residents will get Comcast’s Xfinity On Demand streaming service included in the ever-increasing price of rent. Even my tech-happy father, who has enthusiastically upgraded our “home theater” infrastructure every few years since my birth, hasn’t quite sprung for that yet. While I am sure that College House residents will appreciate the service, I have to confess that it seems to me an extravagance.
Emily Hoeven | If we're talking body
Before coming back to Penn, I got my first professional massage. I had been saying “I need a massage” for years before actually getting one.James Lee | Freedom
As the class of 2020 begins to settle into their new lives at Penn, if its members are anything like me, I’m sure that they’re feeling a complex mix of emotions at entering the first step into adulthood.
Jeremiah Keenan | Stereotyping
She was a cosmopolitan-looking, middle-aged doctor with the kind of precisely preserved physiognomy that I imagine develops 15 years out from an Ivy League sorority.
