Opinion
Tyler Kliem | Now and forever, play crosswords to sharpen your mind
Guest columnist and Senior Crosswords Editor Tyler Kliem encourages you to play our now-released mini crosswords to exercise your brain and to whittle away at the disruptions in our collective lives.
OpArt by Sarah Khan | The Snow Day That Wasn't
In a piece of opinion art, Sarah Khan shares how many students felt waking up to a "snow day" — and still having classes.
Penn Dems | Five Action Plans Biden Should Take
As President Biden takes office, he arrives with a full plate of national crises and a unified government. Here are five things Penn Dem's thinks he should focus on.
Urooba Abid | Penn's Tenure Policies Enable White Supremacy
Penn's antiquated tenure policies have protected professors from blatant acts of hate. It is time for them to be revised for the modern age.
Caroline Magdolen | Saving American Democracy Starts With 147 Republicans
The capitol insurrection highlighted a dangerous desire from some Republicans for political power at all costs. Halting this dangerous slide begins with the GOP taking action.
Matthew Liu | American opposition to COVID-19 lockdowns is history repeating itself
Americans' resistance to the lockdown orders that marked the early fight against COVID-19 take after a growing historical narrative of the US' growing distrust of science.
Agatha Advincula | Finding hope and strength at Penn in the new year
Within the confines of a Zoom call, Penn’s community still continues to thrive. Keeping the fighter’s mindset of 2020 will help us prepare for another year of unknowns.
Isabella Glassman | Penn’s Year of Civic Disengagement
Penn's Year of Civic Engagement has largely failed to make a major impact in encouraging civic engagement across the University, even as the community demands activism.
Bruce Shen | 2020: The Year Penn Failed Its International Students
After months of last-minute decision making, Penn's international students are left bearing the brunt of the cost of a virtual semester, with potentially long-term consequences.
Editorial | Don't pack the Penn scene when you study abroad
While study abroad offers students a unique opportunity to live in new parts of the world, students who are leaving soon for unfamiliar places should make sure that they take advantage of the chance to engage with the people that live in these countries, rather than only sticking with fellow Penn students.
Letter to the Editor | Response to Duke research fraud allegations
On behalf of my client, Dr. Monica Kraft, I am writing in response to the article published by The Daily Pennsylvanian entitled “Duke to pay $112.5 million in response to research fraud allegations.”
Guest Column by William Snow | Penn students must rethink the college-to-consulting pipeline
Why are juniors and seniors spending 90 percent of their free time casing and networking and attending info sessions? Why aren’t we contemplating what we really want out of life, and how we can achieve it?
Letter to the Editor | Response to Rebecca Alifimoff’s column ‘Why chill is overrated’
Here’s my take on “chill.” At Penn, this whole "deadening yourself" with placid smiles and mildly network-y “hahas” is done for me. “Chill” is a ballooning umbrella word that just perpetuates toxic bro activity and pressures people to deflate and compress their bodies into little boxes of compliance. I’m over it, and I’ll take a good bet that most minority communities are over it, too.
Guest Column by Abhi Hendi | Friends, Quakers, Countrymen, lend me your ears
My parents took a risk. Two freshly minted Ph.D.'s, raised in poverty, leaving their home country, coming to America.
Guest Column by five Penn Law professors | Notions of 'bourgeois' cultural superiority are based on bad history
In the recent opinion article “Paying the price for breakdown of the country's bourgeois culture,” published in the Philadelphia Inquirer, law professors Amy Wax and Larry Alexander lament the loss of the “bourgeois cultural hegemony” of the 1950s.
Guest Column by Dean of Penn Law School Ted Ruger | On Charlottesville, free speech and diversity
As a community and as individuals we are shocked and saddened by the deadly, violent events in Charlottesville yesterday, and we grieve for the victims and their families.
Guest Column | Why doctors need to look past the stats
“You have two months left to live.” The doctor delivered the words with a steel, monotone voice without looking up from his computer.
