Opinion

Your Voice | Response to The Daily Pennsylvanian’s Horowitz explanation

Anyone paying close attention to The Daily Pennsylvanian will have noticed a curious inconsistency in its treatment of recent controversies.

Paulo Bautista and Ana Bautista | For one another

We are a place of tolerance, appreciation of diversity and respect. Except this Friday, when there is a party planned with the tagline, “Join the brothers of St. Elmo for a night of papal blasphemy. Let’s get sacrilegious in honor of Pope Francis, a true minister to the poor, the sick, and the blackout.”

Kurt Mitman | A wasted opportunity

Obama should have used his visit to Israel to put forth a comprehensive proposal for peace and the establishment of a Palestinian state.

Jeff Nadel | We are criminals

Every weekend, college campuses across the country are transformed into hotbeds of crime by misguided laws with track records of abysmal failure.

Zurtoons Caption Contest

Think you got the perfect caption to this cartoon?

Morgan Jones | The internet giveth, and it taketh away

On July 1, 2013, Google will be discontinuing Google Reader, a RSS feed that displays all your news sources, blogs and sites of personal interest in one place. This instance does, however, point to one glaring fact that we internet users like to forget: everything we store on the internet is under the control of someone else, and we don’t have much of a say if that controller decides to take it all away.

Adam Silver | Beneath the border

What is basically a prohibition of drugs in the United States and of guns in Mexico creates an extraordinary demand for the illicit products in each country — a demand addressed by drug cartels.

Anchit Bhagat | My evolution into a Philly Gooner

When I first got accepted into Penn, I was of course thrilled to bits as you would expect. After all the initial euphoria of getting into an Ivy League college died down, I had a nagging worry at the back of my mind. How would I be able to follow my favorite football club (Arsenal FC) in a country that called it soccer and worshipped the NFL?

Guest Column | Erasing culpability, furthering injustice: What the WIEF should discuss on March 23

A recent study session for an Urdu language exam took an unexpected turn when the Modi controversy came up. My Urdu tutor, who happens to be a Muslim woman from Pakistan, hesitantly asked my view on the issue. When I replied that Wharton was correct in its decision to rescind its invitation to Narendra Modi, she looked relieved.

Guest Column | The Penn Hindus are right: This is about freedom of speech (they are also right on the facts)

Recently, several University of Pennsylvania professors made accusations in The Daily Pennsylvanian against the Indian politician Narendra Modi as part of a campaign of social pressure that managed to stop his presentation at the Wharton India Economic Forum.

Endorsement | Let's get 'sassy'

With critical problems facing the UA, we think the vice presidential candidate best suited to unify the UA and complete initiatives is Chris Cortes.

Endorsement | No-brainer

We don’t need to split hairs: with or without our — or anyone else’s — endorsement, Abe Sutton will be the next Undergraduate Assembly president. He’s uncontested. That said, we wholeheartedly endorse him as well.

Arielle Pardes | Save pornography

If we want better models for sex, then banning pornography is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Hayley Brooks & Ali Kokot | Why isn’t Lena leaning

But as we look to past pop culture role models of ours, the girls from “Girls,” Lena Dunham’s hit HBO series, we’re confused. In their sour season two finale last Sunday night, they represent the antithesis of Sandberg’s message.

Your Voice | Clarifying Modi's record

As occasional readers of The Daily Pennsylvanian, we write to clarify important facts about Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s record.

Your Voice | A troubling level of discourse

We, scholars of South Asia in the United States, have been appalled at the extent of vituperation and the insults leveled against three distinguished scholars because they wrote a letter opposing the decision of the organizers of the Wharton India Economic Forum to invite Narendra Modi as a keynote speaker.

Lauren Agresti | Reinventing Rejection

It’s okay to have no clue what you’re doing after finals are finished.

Rachel del Valle | What’s the age again?

So every once in a while, it’s a bit jarring to pause and realize that I’m living in 2013, in the United States, with a biracial president — and there’s still a current of latent prejudice everywhere.

Guest Column | We will not move on: A Gujarati-American recalls witnessing the 2002 riots

I will never forget that first day of the riots, February 28, 2002. I watched a mob walk down my street and burn down a Muslim owned business as the police watched.

Guest Column | Modi and Wharton: Fostering dissent

Since the retraction of Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s invitation to the Wharton School, events continue to unfold ominously. The opportunity for public discourse, multiple perspectives expressed in an open and civil manner, has been lost at least twice.