Opinion
Cheers and Jeers | Fall 2012
The Daily Pennsylvanian takes a look at the best and worst of Fall 2012.Nikki Hardison | Not just one type of affirmative action
Believe it or not, your mother is a beneficiary of affirmative action.
Ernest Owens | 36 shades of Quaker life
This is my last column for The Daily Pennsylvanian. My goal for ‘The Ernest Opinion’ was to make you think and speak.
Aya Saed | The progressive believer
Religious organizations are fundamental to the fabric of American life, not because they establish “a moral compass” for the country, as many would attest to, but because they provide the country with a plethora of social services.
Lauren Agresti | Another side of Adderall
It’s concerning — but unfortunately not surprising — that Penn students are more concerned about how Adderall will affect the class curves rather than how prescription-grade cocaine is dispensed by health care professionals like candy.
Kurt Mitman | It’s time we tax God and altruists
If we want to get our fiscal house in order — and help avert the fiscal cliff — we should eliminate the deductions and start treating churches like the corporations they are.Your Voice | Veganism: sweeping the nation
Vegan options are everywhere nowadays as a direct result of student pressure.Editorial | Don’t settle for settling
Penn should have exercised its authority by addressing the building violations in a more proactive manner.Duong Nghe Ly | Three Years On
Over the last three years, I have grown from a victim of school violence to an empowered student activist.
Adam Silver | Looking over the cliff
Although a deal is all we hear about now, we didn’t talk about it during the election. While the deficit is scary, it isn’t what people or candidates care about.Leanne Gale | Should Jerusalem be an eternally united capital?
Mayor Barkat has made it his priority to bury the two-state solution under the idea of Jerusalem as Israel’s “eternally united capital.”
Alexa Nicolas | A capitalist with conviction
As you meander through checkout lines everyday, just consider what you’re buying and whom you’re supporting.Your Voice | Teach for America’s forgotten Penn connection
257 corps members are students at Penn’s Graduate School of Education.Your Voice | Penn students have a hand in Kazakhstan’s public education
One of the projects at Nazarbayev University is to establish Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools all over the country.
Ernest Owens | Irreconcilable differences
I cannot say that my role as an elected representative on campus has been best used to advocate for students. Many campus issues that I encountered as a Quaker have not been addressed by the UA.
Yessenia Gutierrez | Affirmative action applicant
A focus on socioeconomic status without looking at race wouldn’t address the problems affirmative action seeks to remedy.
Max Scheiber | A reasonable Republican Party
I have a couple of proposals about how the Republican Party stance needs to change before 2016.Editorial | The importance of being interviewed
Penn will be relying on you to achieve its goal of interviewing all applicants by 2015. So sign up as soon as you graduate.
Robert Hsu | Stop lying to yourself
Here’s what I have to say to the 18-year-old future Dr. Robert Hsu.