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Opinion

03/15/16 10:08pm
I go to Penn, so obviously I am freaking out about what I am going to do this summer. It is already almost March and I do not have clear plans for June, so obviously I am already behind where I am supposed to be.
03/15/16 8:13pm
SHUN SAKAI is a College junior from Chestnut Hill, Mass.
03/14/16 11:55pm
With the Pennsylvania primaries fast approaching, as well as those of many other relevant states, the DP Opinion board is endorsing candidates for the Presidential Primaries, as we have in past elections.
03/14/16 11:51pm
Spring break filled your newsfeed with not only your friends’ pictures in Puerto Rico, Cabo, Miami Beach or various Alternate Spring Break locations, but also with the breaking news that Kim Kardashian had broken the Internet once again with her post of a nude selfie.
03/14/16 7:59pm
CLAUDIA LI is a College sophomore from Santa Clara, Calif.
03/13/16 9:49pm
As I waited for my bus to Maine, I readied myself to spend three weeks off the grid by mindlessly scrolling through my Instagram feed.
03/13/16 9:48pm
Given the rapid pace of climate change, bringing an end to global warming may seem like an impossible task.
03/13/16 7:40pm
BRYN FRIEDENBERG is a College sophomore from Kirtland, Ohio.
03/03/16 12:11am

Editorial | Regarding the length of break

The spring semester may only be at its halfway point, but Penn has set the calendar for the next academic year.
03/03/16 12:10am
Donald Trump will defeat Hillary Clinton and become the next president of the United States. To those vehemently insisting that the primaries are ongoing, Trump’s sweeping Super Tuesday triumph makes his eventual victory almost mathematically certain.
03/02/16 5:52pm
BEN CLAAR is a College freshman from Scarsdale, N.Y.
03/01/16 10:46pm
Three years ago, Sarah Allan spoke to the University Council, urging Penn to divest its endowment from the fossil fuel industry.
03/01/16 10:43pm
Last Thursday evening, the University of Missouri’s Board of Curators announced the dismissal of Assistant Professor of Communications Melissa Click, who garnered national attention last year when she was caught on video confronting a student journalist who was attempting to take pictures of a protest in which Click was participating. In the video, Click confronts the photographer, grabbing his camera and gesticulating angrily in his face.
03/01/16 8:04pm
SHUN SAKAI is a College junior from Chestnut Hill, Mass.
02/29/16 10:07pm

Guest Column by Barbara Dianne Savage and Camille Z. Charles | Africana Studies: History matters

Africana Studies at Penn has at its center the study of Africa and peoples of African descent around the globe.
02/29/16 10:06pm
My first experience with the cultural houses was during a meet and greet hosted by Pan-Asian American Community House.
02/29/16 10:05pm
Recently I binge-watched the fifth season of Suits, a legal drama airing on USA Network. Suits has some realistic parts and some very unrealistic parts. The simplest aspects of the show are true.
02/28/16 9:46pm
Imagine coming here from a country where you, a well-off expat, were used to a lifestyle that was pretty exorbitant and exceptional by most standards.
02/28/16 9:46pm

Guest Column by David Scollan and Tunmise Fawole | African Studies is not Africana Studies

Following the announcement of the closure of The Africa Center last spring, students mobilized in protest against what we rightly perceived as a marginalization of the study of an entire continent, its 1 billion people, their cultures, languages, histories, economies and institutions.
02/28/16 5:17pm
BRYN FRIEDENBERG is a College sophomore from Kirtland, Ohio.