Opinion
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.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.