Opinion

Letter from the editor

The DP’s executive board decided on Friday that we will no longer publish advertisements from the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

Xavier Flory | Over-represented or under-rewarded?

The University prides itself on elevating groups that have faced discrimination, but it is penalizing Asian Americans for their success despite prejudice.

Guest Column | Retreat from confronting oppression at SP2

Over the past 40 plus years, SWRK 613 proved to be an academically rigorous and profoundly important course in preparing students to become competent social workers with diverse populations.

Morgan Jones | The city of brotherly brew

We — Philadelphia — have everything. Well, almost everything. But you know what we don’t have? A weekly pub run. And do you know what would make Philadelphia an even greater city? A weekly pub run.

Kurt Mitman | Spring forward, fall flat

Economist William Shughart II estimated that daylight savings costs the United States approximately $1.7 billion a year. He arrived at that figure by calculating the opportunity cost of our time and the total amount of time it takes to adjust all of our clocks twice a year.

Your Voice | Attacks on Hindus play out in the theater of the absurd

The episode at Wharton squelching the free speech rights of students is only the latest event in a long running campaign to shut out a billion Hindus from participating in political affairs around the world.

Your Voice | A stand against hateful advertisements

We are writing to say that we were deeply frustrated by the full-page ad posted on page six of Monday’s copy of The Daily Pennsylvanian. We found it to be offensive, disgusting and hateful towards Muslims.

Your Voice | Questionable ad decisions

However, your decision to publish such a distasteful, unethical, and downright degrading ad is extremely unnerving and does not deserve any place in our university’s atmosphere.

Your Voice | The DP should change its advertising policies

I was extremely disturbed to see the xenophobic, propagandistic ad that was published in The Daily Pennsylvanian on Monday. It portrayed isolated instances of violence by Muslims acting outside of permissible Islamic doctrine as the norm, and by doing so, targeted and isolated a segment of the Penn community.

Adam Silver | What we can all do

Politics today is riddled with stories of candidates rising from the one-bedroom log cabin to the political stratosphere. Yet rarely have I come across a candidate quite like Williams, a man who, for nine months, had to plea for money, search for food — often in trash cans — and find a warm place to sleep.

Robert Hsu | Adding fuel to the fire

Our constant consumption on and multitasking across various technologies may actually be training our brains to focus for smaller increments of time, which further decreases our ability to efficiently complete our work.

Your Voice | Response to “On WIEF and Modi”

Opposing so strongly the invitation of an elected official because they feel that he is a dictator unfortunately gives me the impression that they have allowed personal opinions to cloud better judgment.

Your Voice | Modi and the right to free speech

The events surrounding the cancelation of Modi’s invitation were not an inhibition of speech, but the product of dynamic free speech of private individuals without government intervention. Even if you disagree with the outcome, this was free speech in action.

Your Voice | Taking an informed stance on Narendra Modi: A student voice

Penn’s name attached to Modi would have granted him all of the legitimacy that comes with that name, and his cancellation is potentially a huge blow to his political ambitions.

Your Voice | Our right to free speech: A response from signatories of the Modi petition

Unfortunately, The Daily Pennsylvanian has revealed its severe miscomprehension of this very basic point and, in fact, has worried us with the very serious prospect of our suppressed speech.

Your Voice | In defense of Loomba

Agreeing to speak at Penn was a political move for Modi — it would have assisted him in obtaining legitimacy for his “developmental” agenda, while simultaneously erasing his involvement with the Godhra riots.

Your Voice | Response to “A closed forum is no forum”

I am dismayed by the lack of critical thinking evinced in The Daily Pennsylvanian’s editorial, which drew a specious analogy between what Narendra Modi’s keynote at the Wharton India Economic Forum could have been and what Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s 2007 speech at Columbia was.

Your Voice | Response to “‘Shutting down the debate’”

Unlike the opposition to the BDS conference, the motivation behind the anti-Modi campaign had little (if anything) to do with the substance of what Modi planned to say.

Your Voice | Modi should have stayed

As members of the Penn faculty, we have shared our views on the mishandling of Modi’s invitation and are gratified that students at Penn rightly perceive this kerfuffle singularly as a matter of free speech.

Your Voice | It’s not a free speech issue, it’s an economic one

Under Modi, Gujarat has experienced dramatic growth in per capita income, but this has coexisted with statistics for basic human development indices that are below the natural average in a third world country.