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Opinion

04/27/14 8:59pm

Letter to the Editor from Nora Casper and members of the Nursing Class of 2014

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.
04/27/14 7:47pm

Guest column by Jennifer Toth | Clinicals — to me, they mean everything

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. 
04/24/14 8:01pm

Arielle Pardes | Sex as a community service

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.
04/24/14 7:53pm

Roderick Cook | It's story time

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.
04/23/14 7:39pm

Guest column by Hector Kilgoe and Ana Schwartz | Breaking-Up with the Idea of the Friend

To define a “friend” goes against the grain of what is so rich and valuable about friendships — qualities like flexibility, pliability and resilience.
04/23/14 7:34pm

Sam Sherman | The Aesthetic Takeover

We have let social media become an advertisement for ourselves. This is the century of the self-commoditized human.
04/22/14 6:39pm

Collin Boots | Immune to reason

“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).
04/21/14 8:11pm

Editorial | Making strides in diversity

We’re delighted that President Gutmann and other University leaders have held true to their promise with the recent hires. 
04/21/14 6:23pm

Alexandra Friedman | Teaching a lesser-known history

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.
04/20/14 7:34pm

Sara Schonfeld | In defense of the friend break-up

You wouldn’t go on a second date with someone that makes you crazy — why spend your Friday night getting drinks with a “friend” who is toxic?
04/20/14 6:29pm

Guest column by Noah Feit and Uriel Epshtein | Ivy Plus Leadership Mission to Israel and the Palestinian territories

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.
04/17/14 7:04pm

Roderick Cook | Not-so-happy hour

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.
04/17/14 6:50pm

Guest column by Edward Scott | A call to end the ban on MSM blood donation

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.
04/17/14 12:12am

Letter from the editor | Our decision regarding the men's basketball graphic

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.
04/16/14 9:21pm

Collin Boots | March Madness-Christian Movie Edition

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?
04/16/14 9:19pm

Jonathan Iwry | The secular Jew

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.
04/15/14 6:09pm

Guest column by Alyssa Dickinson, Joyce Kim, Conor Nickel and Yamini Nabar | Hungry for impact

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.
04/15/14 6:05pm

Diane Bayeux | Advocating AIDS awareness

As many of you know, Philadelphia has a lot of thrift stores, whether in our bubble of West Philly, in Center City or on South Street.
04/14/14 6:11pm

Guest column by Penn for Palestine | What you will not Learn on a Free Trip to Israel

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.
04/14/14 5:24pm

Sara Schonfeld | Post-fling reflections

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.