Opinion

David Moore | We're here to listen

I live on Locust Walk. Three minutes to class, three minutes to Lyn’s, three minutes to Pottruck – the location alone is fantastic.

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.

Shun Sakai | Open club recruiting

SHUN SAKAI is a College senior from Chestnut Hill, Mass.

Guest column by Penn Masala | An Apology to the Penn Community

Dear Penn, As many of you have heard by now, we had a question on our audition form that was completely inappropriate.

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.

Guest column by Peter LaBerge | From One “Bro” to Another: On Complicity

By the second week of freshman year, we have all learned to avoid the Compass in the center of Locust Walk.

Brad Hong | I'm not complaining, but...

BRAD HONG is a College freshman from Morristown, NJ.

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.

Editorial | In response to the OZ email flyering

Two days after an Oz email for a “Wild Wednesday” party addressed to Penn women was flyered across campus with the captions “THIS IS WHAT RAPE CULTURE LOOKS LIKE” and “WE ARE WATCHING,” many of the physical papers have been taken down.

Claudia Li | A letter to freshmen

CLAUDIA LI is a College junior from Santa Clara, California.

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.

Guest column by Kat McKay | Your shot to make Penn history

Welcome to Penn, freshmen and transfer students. Over the next few weeks, you will have a lot of opportunities to start choosing the courses, campus spaces, and student groups that will come to define your experience here.

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.

Aaron Cooper | The interview is dead

Imagine the following scenario: You’re a club leader organizing a protest. You have an issue you care passionately about, and you’re gathering like minded students to make a public display complete with rehearsed chants and picket signs.

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.

Shun Sakai | Pulvis et umbra sumus

SHUN SAKAI is a College senior from Chestnut Hill, Mass.

Guest column by Chaz Howard | My freshman year and insecurity

Insecurity, I have found, is a dangerous force that can subtly permeate various aspects of one’s life.

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.