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You can make every inappropriate nurse joke out there — we’ve heard them all — but please do not disrespect our clinical experiences, which are undeniably more profound than any average undergraduate education.
Unless you’ve spent 12-hour shifts caring for critically ill patients or have yourself been one of those patients, I would ask you not to jump to the conclusion that our clinical experiences are meaningless.
Every week, hundreds Penn students file into dusty classrooms in West Philadelphia’s middle and high schools where they tutor students in math and English and science.
Some stories are hard to tell, but chances are those are the
ones that desperately need to be heard.We far too often have an aversion to using individual
stories as a way to understand societal problems and enact change.
“Big-pharma” and “conventional medicine” became bogeymen that use their overwhelming political power to suppress the “natural healing” wonders of Supplementary, Complementary and Alternative Medicine (SCAMs).
Israel has certainly played a role in prolonging the Palestinian condition. To say that Israel and its policies are the root cause of the problem, however, is historically inaccurate.
My partners and I believe that this trip will serve to temper the polarized dialogue that currently characterizes the conversation about Israeli-Palestinian issues at Penn. Through the mission, we hope to create a space for nuanced discussion on the United States’ role in the Middle East.
From the first moment that I was offered a beer at a party to this very day whenever people around me are drinking, I have felt at least a little bit uncomfortable and have had a sense of dread. I can’t quite explain it, but it’s very real.
Since 1983, straight people have had the privilege of not needing to have an internal conversation about whether their blood is worthy. They will not have the experience of being in a student organization’s meeting where a blood drive is chosen as the next philanthropic event, knowing they cannot participate due to their sexuality.
On Tuesday, April 15, The Daily Pennsylvanian published an article titled “Welcome to the new Penn basketball” with an accompanying graphic of the Penn basketball team.
I personally don’t care for natural disaster films, but to me Noah represents a desirable future direction for Hollywood. Why not put Samson and David in the same category as Thor, Hercules and other characters of old mythologies?
What we need is to get back in touch with our intellectual heritage—to understand Judaism not as a collection of divine dos and don’ts, but as an ongoing existential and ethical dialogue that evolves across generations.
Penn is full of noteworthy initiatives. But we would like to
highlight one in particular: Penn Dining and Bon Appetit’s efforts to work with
students to implement a food recovery program.Starting this fall, our dining services providers, Penn
Dining and Bon Appetit, will establish a program that transfers food unable to
be consumed at dining halls to a local hunger relief agency.
We believe that the Ivy Plus Leadership Mission to Israel, whether it be intentional or unintentional, will in fact obscure and hide many of the oppressive actions of the Israeli government that are categorically wrong and illegal.
This Fling, I bought fried Oreos and wore ridiculous amounts of neon. I wore sunglasses at night and forgot my sweater at home and stopped for fried chicken. I even got yelled at by the cops.