Opinion
Ryan Daniels | Hungry for Apples
Technology companies are constantly improving and refining their products, but our incessant desire for a game changer has forced them to market touch-ups as turning points.
Caroline Brand | I’ll find a title, sometime
Instead of telling you that “college flies by” or “it’s the shortest four years of your life,” I have a new tidbit of advice: Stop using the word “sometime.”
Rachel del Valle | Freshman friends are not forever
I have a theory that the student body of Penn is composed of maybe 30 percent introverts, and of that 30 percent, about half of those spend their first few years trying to pretend they’re extroverts like everyone else.
Jeff Nadel | Startups vs. the state
Uber brings a better, more efficient service to consumers — and that threatens the livelihood of entrenched taxi unions and the City Hall politicians and bureaucrats beholden to their interests.
Xavier Flory | Channeling our insecurities
It’s easy to think we need an even higher GPA and more impressive extracurriculars if we are to compete with students from HYP.Letter to the Editor | Remembering Sheldon Hackney
I knew Sheldon Hackney, the Penn history professor, and that man deserves to be celebrated unconditionally.Arielle Pardes | Digital Get Down
In most cases, sexting holds the same appeal as any other erotic act — the only difference is that it’s digitalized.Editorial | Fading memories
Perhaps in a few years, 9/11 will be yet another tragically storied day that future students can only relate to through stories, textbooks and movies. But that time hasn’t come yet.
Kurt Mitman | Unilaterally ending unilateralism
Amidst all of the noise about Syria coming from the talking heads in Washington, a bigger point has largely been ignored.Your Voice | The say-anything column: towards accountability in editorial decisions
I sincerely hope that the DP will cancel O’Conor’s column and enact new editorial policies.Letter to the Editor | Keeping Penn safe
Penn Police protects our stores, not our students.
Sindhuri Nandhakumar | The other end of the scale
There is a large discrepancy between the medically accepted notions of healthy bodies and the images encouraged by popular culture, and I’m not the only one who’s been affected by it.Guest Column | Penn can save Philly’s schools
Screw the class schedule as it stands. Reconfigure it if you must, but send students en masse into the public schools to volunteer.
Ali Kokot & Hayley Brooks | SWAG, not SWUG
We’re seeing senior women with full courseloads, a work-study or part-time job, relationships and leadership positions who, shockingly, want to take a few hours to themselves sometimes. What’s so wrong with that? Washed up? We think not.
Ryan Daniels | Your world, delivered
According to some analysts, Amazon Prime is part of a huge scheme to alter the way internet consumers consume.
Rachel del Valle | Get Real
Acting like a real person means, essentially, acting like a grown-up, an adult. But it doesn’t have the same, sad, unexciting connotation as those other terms.
Clarissa O'Conor | The Problem with Band-Aids
The discourse of empowerment makes us feel good about putting a Band-Aid on something while avoiding actually questioning our role in systematic racism, oppression and injustice.
Xavier Flory | The Price of Engagement
The ivory tower is often derided for how elitist and out of touch it is, but isolation from the world is a good and necessary thing.New advice column
The DP is launching a new advice column! Have questions? The columnists have answers.