Opinion
Your Voice | In Tyga’s defense…
Lighten up everyone, they’re just lyrics. Harmless words. No one listens for the lyrics anyway. All we want is a dope beat so we can get freaky on the dance floor.
Anthony Liveris | Information overload
The pursuit of legislation has been sidelined for the pursuit of finding true news. The creative side of entertainment is intersecting with the content, leaving us satisfied with the story, not the necessary results.
Divya Ramesh | Empty apologies
Sorry has become the panacea, but the word is caving under the weight of our demands.Emily Goshey | Are you out there?
After having some conversations with my friends here at Penn, I’m astounded that so many of them read Tyga’s lyrics and respond: “Well, I just really don’t care.”Your Voice | The Modi controversy is not about free speech
Saturday in the streets of Philadelphia, we got a much clearer picture of what it is that Modi’s supporters actually stand for. In a protest that was organized by a group describing itself as “Americans for Free Speech,” free speech seemed pretty low on the agenda.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.
