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Opinion

01/20/16 11:29pm

David Hartman | Powerball lottery

There is a line of reasoning that goes as follows: playing the Powerball lottery may not make much financial sense, but the joy you get from dreaming about winning over a billion dollars is well worth the $2.
01/20/16 9:18pm
BEN CLAAR is a College freshman from Scarsdale, N.Y.
01/19/16 10:51pm
With Penn recently considering divestment from fossil fuels, yet another college now questions the propriety of investing its endowments based on ethical inclinations.
01/19/16 10:51pm
It would be pointless for me to write a column arguing that the United States should lower the national minimum drinking age to 18 for two reasons. First, it would be pointless because this is Penn, and the proposal would likely be so uncontroversial among whatever readership I have that it would verge on being a waste of time.
01/19/16 8:03pm
CLAUDIA LI is a College sophomore from Santa Clara, California.
01/18/16 8:30pm
Protests are symbolic at their core. They signal a dissatisfaction with the greater system (whether it be white supremacist, patriarchal, imperialist) manifesting beneath the surface of an otherwise functional society. Nowadays, they signal change, but they don’t necessarily create it.
01/17/16 6:45pm

Meerabelle Jesuthasan | What Kind of Diversity?

The contemporary tropes of International Baccalaureate scores and Radian apartments, of Western-tinted accents and Castle rushees, point to some kind of unspoken acceptance of the fact that nowadays, international Penn students just tend to be wealthier.
01/17/16 5:33pm

Ben Facey | Ink’d

Currently my body is ink-free, but I soon plan on changing that. I want a tattoo and have promised three different friends that I would get a tattoo with them in the next few months. Statistically, at least one of them won’t chicken out, so it’s very likely that within the next few months my ink virginity will be taken from me.
01/13/16 11:40pm
Rong Xiang is a College freshman from Cherry Hill, N.J. Her email address rxiang@sas.upenn.edu.
01/13/16 11:34pm
Would you listen to Albert Einstein’s political counsel? Terence Tao’s opinion on drug policy?
01/13/16 11:34pm
Donald Trump is not stupid. Penn students frequently dismiss him because he says stupid things, but we shouldn’t underestimate the GOP frontrunner. As Trump recently told a raucous crowd in South Carolina, “We have to be smart.
01/12/16 10:37pm
BRYN FRIEDENBERG is a College sophomore from Kirtland, Ohio. Her email is tobryn@sas.upenn.edu.
01/12/16 10:36pm
The practice of reflecting upon failings of the prior year at the start of a new one seems to me both honest and educational, particularly as someone whose somewhat inherently deceptive role is to publicly assert each week that I have a good answer to a significant problem or question.
01/12/16 10:36pm
I’m not someone who regularly writes down New Year’s Resolutions, mainly because they often remain consistent across the years: do well in school, go for a decent amount of runs every week, keep in touch with friends and family, journal more.
12/09/15 6:45pm
Mr. Trump has prominently, and quite publicly, failed our community.
12/08/15 11:13pm
It’s that time of the semester again. That point when for many students, our questioning of our validity and our futures is probably at its strongest.
12/08/15 11:11pm
At first glance, it would seem impossible to obtain more diversity of thought than can be achieved by a student body representative of the American population. However, this is not always the case for selective schools.
12/08/15 10:27pm
Sophia Oak is a College senior from Honolulu. Her email is oakj@sas.upenn.edu.
12/08/15 12:34am
The words “billion” and “million” may rhyme, but they’re very different values. Consider the following: if you started out with a billion dollars the day Christ was born, and spent $1,000 every day since, you’d still have $264 million left today.