Opinion
Alessandro van den Brink | The spirit of compromise
A couple weeks ago, fellow columnist Cameron Dichterok wrote a column piece — "Whose speech matters?" — explaining why he believes that critics of political correctness are appropriating speech that hurts minorities who have nothing to gain through this example of free speech.
Ben Claar | Lego Allegro
BEN CLAAR is a College freshman from Scarsdale, N.Y.
Karen Chi | Environmental dichotomy
For all its hype about being a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Silver Certified building, the New College House has some uncharacteristic features for a dormitory.
Alec Ward | The elephant in the closet
At last week’s UA-sponsored panel on open expression at Penn, the most intriguing comment I heard was only tangentially related to free speech.
Rong Xiang | Dining Struggle
RONG XIANG is a College Freshman from Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
Ben Facey | Anonymity
It might be surprising to hear, but I actually read The Daily Pennsylvanian, specifically the Opinion section. Since I mostly read when I am bored in class, I read the articles online.
Claudia Li | Birdbrained
CLAUDIA LI is a College sophomore from Santa Clara, California.Meerabelle Jesuthasan | The other Wharton Graduate
Exorbitant lifestyle. Infamous interviews. A wealthy family who funded his debut as an entrepreneur.
Bryn Friedenberg | Intern Ship
BRYN FRIEDENBERG is a College sophomore from Kirtland, Ohio.
Letter from the President | On our upcoming political coverage
President Colin Henderson explains why the DP is sending staffers to Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina to cover the primaries.
Guest column by Jeremy Jick | Seeing past the noise
Israel is often misrepresented at Penn. Whether through the placement of black flags on College Green or the construction of an “apartheid wall” in front of Van Pelt Library, Israel is depicted as an abominable tyrant and the substantive facts of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are deemed insignificant.Editorial | How Penn dealt with winter storm Jonas
What is there to say about Winter Storm Jonas? Not very much on our campus. To go by the vista offered by High Rise Field on Saturday morning, no student could be rebuked for thinking we’d get to February before attending class again.
Alec Ward | Leave the door open
Unless you read The Chronicle of Higher Education with the near-obsessive frequency that I do, you probably don’t know much about Mount St.
Joe Tharakan | The problem with pre-med
Right now on this campus, thousands of pre-med students shuffle to their massive Bio lectures, their on-campus research positions, their clinical volunteering jobs, their health related extracurriculars, or their activities unrelated to medicine but picked because medical schools prefer them. Ask any of them about it, and I expect they will all say the same thing: it sucks.
Rong Xiang | Rong's study adventures: Van Pelt
RONG XIANG is a College Freshman from Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
Emily Hoeven | Brave new worlds
I remember my first night in the Quadrangle, lying on a hard and slightly stained mattress, surrounded by four intimidatingly blank walls, and listening to the heartbeat of an unfamiliar city outside my window.
Claudia Li | White House Security
CLAUDIA LI is a College sophomore from Santa Clara, California.
Clara Jane Hendrickson | What's feminism got to do with it?
This week’s issue of The Nation featured two cover articles. “Why this Socialist Feminist is for Hillary,” by Suzanna Danuta Walters and “Why this Socialist Feminist is not Voting for Hillary,” by Liza Featherstone.