Opinion
Anneka DeCaro | Cleanly solutions
ANNEKA DECARO is a rising College sophomore from Austin. Her email address is annekaxiv@gmail.com.
Annika Neklason | Not in my name
This week, the families of nine innocent men and women prepare to lay their bodies to rest in Charleston, South Carolina.
David Marchino | This is living
This is a story that has been told many times. The precocious child from the troubled home perseveres. They get a full ride. They go to college. But, I have found that these stories conclude too early. They wrap up too neatly. I believe it necessary to dismantle the idea that admission to college marks the end of the struggle for victims of abuse.
Sean McGeehan | Don't worry America
SEAN MCGEEHAN is a rising College senior from Philadelphia. His email address is seanmcgeehan@verizon.net.
Clara Jane Hendrickson | Asking for more
The push for flibanserin and its treatment of hypoactive sexual dysfunction disorder in women not only makes a mockery of the drug approval process. It marks a dangerous emboldening of the trend towards medicalizing women’s sexuality and a step away from women’s equality in the bedroom.
PRISM: Dare to understand
Throughout the last month of the spring semester, anti-Muslim advertisements were carried throughout Philadelphia’s neighborhoods on dozens of SEPTA buses. The message they offered, “Islamic Jew Hatred: It’s in the Quran” is a false one, tailored to incite prejudice and division among viewers and the community.
Jay Havaldar | In defense of impracticality
Those who pursue the impractical and the esoteric are, I think, quite a bit misunderstood. The frame of mind that leads to our judgments of what is and isn't practical is very much a product of our environment. Yes, an artist may never cure cancer or build a million dollar company, but we should be a bit more grateful for what they do give us.
Annika Neklason | Deja vu all over again
Fifty years ago, after a long and sometimes bloody struggle waged by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and civil rights activists around the country, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law. Put simply, this act prohibited racial discrimination in voting on both a state and federal level.
David Marchino | An admission of guilt
In recent years, the Penn community has been pushing toward reform regarding the treatment of mental illness, both bureaucratically within Counseling and Psychological Services and socially among students. We have seen agendas written up, sensitivity training initiated, and we’ve been urged to learn and relearn that it is okay to not be okay. But even so, at Pennsylvania Hospital, I found it difficult to reach out to my peers.
Anneka DeCaro | Group projects
ANNEKA DECARO is a rising College sophomore from Austin. Her email address is annekaxiv@gmail.com.
Clara Jane Hendrickson | Another award, few winners
There is something missing from progressive social movements, city government and neighborhood-level decision making, and it is not Ivy League graduates. It is the participation of the communities we hope to “serve” on the frontline of the social issues that affect them the most.
A response to 34th Street’s ‘The dividing line’
A few weeks ago, 34th Street published an article detailing some aspects of cocaine use at our University. The story failed to make the connection between consumption in our own sheltered environment, and the violent drug cartels in developing countries that supply the drug.
A letter from the Vietnamese Student Association
The seniors of the Vietnamese Student Association have taken great time to collect all accounts of what happened during the VSA Barbecue on April 17 in order to create a clear timeline of events.
Anneka DeCaro | Schuylkill River reflections
ANNEKA DECARO is a rising College sophomore from Austin. Her email address is annekaxiv@gmail.com.
Annika Neklason | No more rain checks
Environmental issues feel abstract and distant in Philadelphia, experienced in their extremes only through news items and stories, through conversations in science and political science classes that end at the close of a lecture and through brief bouts of social activism like the campus referendum for fossil fuel divestment. But in California they have become unavoidable as the drought has progressively worsened, coloring the landscape and creeping into residents’ daily routines.Letter to the Editor | From Ishmail Abdus-Saboor and Zahra Parker
The purported goal of The Daily Pennsylvania article “Black PhDs face disparate treatment in the sciences” was to discuss disproportional funding trends facing under represented minorities in science.
Senior column by Ben Lerner | It ain't no lie
The month preceding graduation is filled with finales. But sometimes an especially climactic event, like Final Toast, feels too surreal to process, so it doesn’t even feel like an emotional milestone.
Senior column by Taylor Culliver | Stay the course
I closed the door on my Penn career sitting in Huntsman Hall watching the timer as it ticked towards blinking zeros.
Jenny Lu | Finding comfort despite change
It took a recent walk through campus for me to realize how much things can change in just a few years’ time. At risk of sounding like an actual senior citizen — back in my day, Spruce Street across from the Quad had only one sidewalk.