Opinion
Ben Claar | Writing seminar is fun
BEN CLAAR is a College freshman from Scarsdale, N.Y. His email is bclaar@sas.upenn.edu.
Shun Sakai | Local
SHUN SAKAI is a College junior from Chestnut Hill, Mass. His email is ssakai@sas.upenn.edu.
Sophia Oak | The Fishbowl Tiles: Relatable
SOPHIA OAK is a College senior from Honolulu. Her email is oakj@sas.upenn.edu.Guest Column by the Hamlett-Reed Mental Health Initiative | Thank you, Penn
After three months of deliberation, Penn administrators have agreed to take substantial steps forward in making Penn a healthier campus.Guest Column by Andrew Amarosa | Everybody's space
I don’t get why, as Americans, we have become so terrified of people speaking their minds simply because it may offend someone.
Editorial | In support of #WeArePhilly
Systemic racism at college campuses across the country was thrown into the spotlight two weeks ago, with protests at the University of Missouri and Yale demanding action to address the institutional marginalization of people of color.
Alessandro van den Brink | Life in the age of choices
Several weeks ago, Aziz Ansari’s new Netflix original series was released and, in typical Aziz fashion, the comedian brilliantly blurred the lines between outrageous humor and social commentary.
Louis Capozzi | The land of hypocrisy?
“The road to power is paved with hypocrisy and casualties,” Frank Underwood says in season two of House of Cards.
Gina Elia | The importance of being humble
All of us probably feel that we know what it means to have humility. Yet, especially in the context of the Ivy League, this particular virtue is underrated.Letter to the Editor from Anthony Natale
I, along with our union leadership, encourage staff to exercise their rights and use the processes provided by the collective bargaining agreement to resolve any issues between staff and management.
Guest Column by Elvire Audi | Unsinkable
“Death is not a conclusion.” These are words I heard and wrote down a few weeks ago, when I watched Jean-Luc Godard’s film “Contempt.” Today, they resonate more than ever.
Clara Jane Hendrickson | The dangerous self
It seems like every Locust Walk encounter with a friend, acquaintance or classmate brings another instance of a Penn student bemoaning their own misfortune for being swamped, under-socialized, under-slept and overworked.Letter to the Editor from Hanley Bodek
Let's pay this bill tomorrow with a smile before we are assessed what we really owe. The climate has changed. Part of Penn’s success is because of Philadelphia, not in spite of it.
Residential Services' lack of concern is concerning
This week, a four-part series in The Daily Pennsylvanian exposed the concerning state of housing facilities across campus. Besides drawing attention to the run-down and quite frankly, unsafe conditions that 54 percent of students live in, the series highlighted another equally troubling phenomenon: Facilities and Real Estate Services’ widespread lack of concern for people, including students and workers.
Alec Ward | The 800-pound sycophant
In the wake of protests against racism on campuses around the country last week, many of my acquaintances took to social media to declare their status as “allies” of the protestors, and to affirm their solidarity with the various movements participating. It was far from first time I’d seen the term “ally” used in conjunction with social justice movements, but it raised the concept afresh in my mind.
Giavanni Alves | To join or not to join
Injustice and violence are rampant, equality is still a dream, the civil rights movement is in Act 2 of a seemingly never-ending play and innocent lives are taken on a daily basis for reasons that are both illogical and unsubstantiated.
Editorial | FRES needs to clean up its mess
Facilities and Real Estate Services’ continual struggle to maintain quality living standards in campus buildings comes as no surprise to most students living on-campus.
Emily Hoeven | Blurred lives
It’s one of the most-heard phrases on any college campus, rotely recited to hopeful applicants when they ask what the college environment is really like.
Vaios Triantafyllou | Pray for Paris, pray for the world
On Friday, Nov. 13 the world witnessed in disgrace the bombings and shootings in Paris for which the Islamic State claimed responsibility. Realizing that to write about this event can promote it, and hence accomplish its purpose of spreading terror, I am morally obligated to dedicate this week’s column to the memory of those who have fallen in the name of democracy and freedom.