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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Earlier this week, Kenny Jones — a former administrator in the Office for Fraternity and Sorority Life — was found to have misrepresented his academic credentials on multiple occasions.