Opinion

Jeff Nadel | Gratitude for guns

Due to the presence and prevalence of firearms, reason can now, to a much larger extent, determine our outcomes because generally, brute physical domination is no longer institutionalized as a method of problem-solving.

Kurt Mitman | Guess who should come to dinner

Since high school, college and graduate school graduation rates are lower for minorities than for whites in the United States, by the time you get to the top, there will be a much larger disparity in representation than in the population in general.

Rebecca Dubow | Recreating community

After reading a column by Lauren Agresti that appeared in an edition of The Daily Pennsylvanian last week about why she chose to deactivate, I agreed with her that Greek life is not right for everybody, but for me it was right.

Your Voice | Bring back the American Civilization major

I remember quite well that, as a student with a major in American Civilization, the study of America’s indigenous people was a major part of the curriculum.

Morgan Jones | Name that identity

Pairing an identity with a name is not a new phenomenon, but now researchers have the data to recognize and support name trends with statistical analysis. So thanks for raising me, Mom and Dad, but you did most of the heavy lifting just by slapping a name on that birth certificate.

Adam Silver | The NFL is … socialist

Among professional sports, the NFL is unique — a look at the different financial structures of other sports leagues makes the NFL’s socialist tendency even more apparent. Although Americans call European soccer a socialist sport, it is far more capitalist than our beloved NFL.

Editorial | Hired?

The fact that USC is willing to hire Lynch less than a year after the controversy shows a willingness to overlook Lynch’s actions. While this does not amount to condoning what Lynch has done, we feel it is akin to saying it’s acceptable. This disregard for ethical standards represents an inherent breakdown in the system.

Arielle Pardes | There’s an app for that

The newest thing in the world of sex technology is Bang With Friends. The app — which has already gathered over 250,000 users since it launched last week — notifies pairs of Facebook friends who have identified that they’d like to “bang.”

Hayley Brooks & Ali Kokot | Forward thinking

While we’ve all been warned against sending pictures of ourselves in the buff, what’s more worrisome is that we don’t seem the least bit concerned about forwarding, sharing and further exploiting our peers. Worse, this trend is not bounded by the cybersphere — it’s alive in real time.

Boycott Israeli apartheid

Given the fortuitous timing of Mr. Barghouti’s talk — one year after the National BDS Conference held at Penn last February — we would like to reflect on the progress that BDS and the Palestinian non-violent resistance movement have made over the last year.

Rachel del Valle | It's okay to binge

Jumping on the bandwagon after a season has aired and catching up on an online streaming service is becoming more and more common.

Caroline Brand | From sonnets to sexting

While some mourn the end of the era of boyfriends and girlfriends and dates at Pod, others find the hook-up culture to be less stressful than trying to hold a conversation with someone over the duration of a three-course meal and find it much more conducive to our busy schedules.

Divya Ramesh | Whether we "like" it or not

Sometimes, I wonder how I have 193 friends on Facebook. To you, that figure probably seems astonishingly low. To me, it’s surprisingly high.

Your Voice | The Penn Board of Trustees' Response to Guess who's (not) coming to dinner

In her pursuit of her ambitious diversity goals, President Gutmann has the full and unwavering support of the Board of Trustees.

Anthony Liveris | Pivot or pirouette?

If the Chinese have in fact entered a period of being more comfortable confronting a standard scale American presence in Southeast Asia, American response cannot be half-hearted.

Your Voice | Responses to "Guess who's (not) coming to dinner" (Part III)

It’s time members of the black community who criticize our president to start looking in the mirror and start addressing the problems in their community that make it so hard for people like Secretary Rice and President Gutmann to find qualified candidates.

Lexi Caffrey | Mike Lane: Giving the good a chance to be great

I am writing you this letter to thank you for all you have done for my teammates and me over the years. In light of John Phillips’s DP article, I thought it was an appropriate time to recognize you and your colleagues in the Athletic Department who put so many thankless hours into making the student athletes at Penn better students, athletes and people.

Libby Mulligan | Actual talent never quits

I think it’s really sad that of all the articles Mr. Phillips could have written about this team, full of interesting, talented, intelligent and unique women, he instead chose to focus on two of the small minority that have chosen to give up and walk away from this fantastic group.

Letter from the editor

If you read our paper yesterday, you might have seen a young President Gutmann gracing our front page and a letter by her on our opinion page, responding to a critique from Tuesday’s paper. Enough readers have expressed their suspicions about our paper’s objectivity that we want to clarify our position.

Selbie Jason | Keeping the good, still going for the great

Although the article claims that we have lost 11 “rowers with pedigree” in the past two years, we have actually lost eight and only three of those were in one of the three boats eligible for NCAA championships.