Opinion
Kurt Mitman | Obama-Doesn’t-Care
It’s great to know that the healthcare.gov site is working for the massive 1.6 percent of the population that is running Linux.
Xavier Flory | Is specialization the problem?
At Penn, I am continually impressed with the accomplishments of my fellow students but often underwhelmed by their ability to justify why those accomplishments and causes are important.
Rachel del Valle | What's all the buzz about?
It seems that, especially on a college campus, reading for pleasure has become a rare activity.Guest Column by the University Honor Council | Disciplinary process demystified
In light of the recent conversation on campus surrounding sexual violence, we wish to make Penn students aware of their rights and options.Letter to the Editor | To the defacers of Penn Secular Society’s poster…
I beg the defacers of Penn Secular Society’s poster to please stop.Letter to the Editor | Misunderstanding both religion and secularism
The Penn Secular Society wants everyone to stop believing in G-d because, well, because they don’t believe in G-d.Guest Column by Jai Dehadrai | Beyond the rule of law: A valuable lesson
Part-time professor and full-time trial attorney, professor Shanin Specter lays threadbare the secrets that have led him to become one of America’s finest lawyers — and perhaps the most respected as well.
Robert Hsu | E-Cigarettes: The evil new kid?
To declare e-cigarettes a silver bullet to smoking simply because it is the lesser of two evils is to blatantly ignore the lessons we have learned from tobacco control.Arielle Pardes | Stop cyberstalking your ex
Actively engaging, instead of the one-sided cyberstalking that we’re wont to do, can help tame the feelings of insanity, jealousy and powerlessness that come from seeing our exes all over the internet.Guest Column by Jordan Coello | Keep Freshmen in the Highrises
I fail to understand why freshmen need to be prevented from living in the high rises, as if living in the high rises were the death knell for a freshman’s college experience.Guest Column by Ashwin Shandilya | A home in the high rises
As Penn’s leaders consider ways to improve first-year housing, implementing a one-size-fits-all approach and banning freshmen from Harrison or Harnwell College House (or low-rise buildings like Stouffer College House) seems like an easy solution. But it’s the wrong one.Guest Column by the Executive Board of ASAP | A Call to Action: Collegiate ACB Must Go
Collegiate ACB perpetuates the culture of violence that ASAP, and so many other student groups and individuals, work to combat.
Ali Kokot & Hayley Brooks | ACBeware
Anyone with a beating heart understands that writing these posts is mean, but it might be a whole lot more than mean. Beyond just being a jerk, you could be liable for a big legal headache.
Ryan Daniels | Dialing back
The average American gets a new phone every 22 months. Isn’t that a little crazy?
Clarissa O'Conor | An ordinary Tuesday morning in Palestine?
According to the Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions, which keeps track of Israel’s destruction of Palestinian property, Israel has destroyed 527 Palestinian homes in 2013.Editorial | The rent is too damn high
There is no real reason Penn should be charging students to use campus space for legitimate extracurricular activities.Letter to the Editor | Meatless Mondays In Philadelphia
Two weeks ago, the Philadelphia City Council — supported by local animal advocacy nonprofit The Humane League — passed a resolution endorsing Meatless Mondays.