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Opinion

04/04/13 1:52am

Zurtoons Caption Contest

Think you got the perfect caption to this cartoon?
04/04/13 1:28am

Guest column | With liberty and justice for all

It is in that same spirit that we are proud to express our firm support for marriage equality, as individuals and as the presidents of the Penn Democrats and Penn College Republicans, respectively.
04/04/13 1:10am
Adulthood doesn’t come with a gown and tassel. And it certainly doesn’t come with a 2,000-square-foot apartment overlooking Madison Square Park. It’s an entire process, and perhaps that was what scared me most.
04/02/13 11:28pm
Supporting a cause has become as simple as clicking “upload” with an ease that undermines actual activism.
04/02/13 11:21pm
Access to the Quadrangle building access will be restricted during Fling. According to Penn, the administration is trying to “curb the threat of underage or irresponsible drinking” and reduce the number of hospitalizations. I don’t think the new policy will be effective. In fact, I think it may have the opposite effect.
04/02/13 11:09pm

Elise A. Mitchell | A response to “Are you out there?”

Girl Talk, who specializes in mash-ups and sampling, regularly samples from music with lyrics that are equally as misogynistic Tyga’s. However, thus far there have been little to no complaints pertaining to the misogynistic nature of his samples. I cannot help but suspect that race is at the heart of this matter.
04/01/13 11:09pm

Arielle Pardes | Advice for the young women of Penn

In a letter to the editor published in The Daily Princetonian on March 29, Princeton alumna Susan Patton gave her two cents to the “daughters she never had.” The advice: Now that you’ve made it to the Ivy League, it’s time to start husband hunting. The idea that my time in college is best spent finding a suitable man is, frankly, insulting.
04/01/13 11:02pm
There’s an unavoidable, nettling sense of superficiality that comes with mentally aligning yourself with a certain life — or in my case, lives.
04/01/13 10:54pm

Guest Column | Penn must ask Joe Biden serious questions at graduation

The announcement of Joe Biden as the 2013 commencement speaker at the University of Pennsylvania did not cause much controversy on campus. Though Biden’s speech need not cause uproar, it ought to serve as an occasion to ask serious moral and political questions of an elected leader.
03/31/13 11:18pm
Last week, as I stood alongside a man with “Penn Maintenance” embroidered on his jacket, I received a very didactic response as I rambled on about the motivational power of a Friday evening.
03/31/13 11:16pm
It’s that time of year. Grab a wurst and sit back for the sporting highlight of the year. No, I’m not talking about March Madness. I refer to the quarterfinals of the UEFA Champions League, the annual tournament for the best footballing clubs in Europe.
03/31/13 11:14pm

Your Voice | A Wall for Freedom

Penn For Liberty is celebrating free speech this week. To evince this, we’re placing a Free Speech Wall next to the love statue.
03/29/13 12:07am
This issue goes beyond the question of straight and gay marriage currently before the court.
03/29/13 12:03am
There will always be people who don’t like you, who want to be mean to you and who will put you down. It is impossible to control others, but we do have control over ourselves. When it comes to bullying, we have to worry less about the bullies and more about the victims.
03/28/13 11:59pm

Guest Column | I nurse, you nurse, we nurse

There is benefit to helping other people understand why some people choose nursing as a career. And even more importantly, how you all are, in a way, nurses.
03/28/13 11:56pm

Seaver Wang | A Failure to fire

The first rule of the national gun debate is this: much of what you know is wrong.
03/27/13 10:08pm
This is the problem with requirements: they don’t make sense. So many courses that obviously should fill them just don’t.
03/27/13 10:04pm

J Street U Penn Executive Board | A crucial voice for Israel

Open discourse and constructive criticism, rooted in love, are the only ways for us to achieve a brighter and safer future for the State of Israel. Like similar events being held by J Street U chapters on campuses across the country, our success in bringing Breaking the Silence to Hillel exemplifies the gradual mending of a still broken dialogue on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
03/26/13 11:48pm

Joke Issue: Don’t oppose the majority’s authority (DOMA)

Today, the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments about the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act.
03/26/13 11:09pm

Jim Kahn | Joke issue score: DP 129, readers -129

The Daily Pennsylvanian’s annual gag issue has a long history, of which another chapter has been written today. Every year at about this time, tradition dictates that DP editors turn their usually proper paper into a playful parody.