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Opinion

02/11/13 11:05pm

Guest Column | One in four-ward thinking

We are Penn’s all-male peer education and rape prevention group, One in Four. We are men who inform men how to decrease sexual assault and help survivors of it. And we’d not only like to applaud Ali and Hayley for beginning a conversation about rape culture last week, but also take this opportunity to expand the discussion.
02/11/13 10:59pm
Roughly 2.7 mojitos into the evening, one member of our little party whipped out her phone with a wry smile and passed it around the table. She was messaging a boy on a dating app, and we were all reviewing their exchange.
02/10/13 11:43pm
Concert violinist and Juilliard and Yale graduate Igor Pikayzen told me in an interview that pop is more about “creating a sort of ambiance” than producing worthwhile art. Indeed, blasting “Ass ass ass” is a crude but clear message to girls at frat parties. However, nothing great was ever conceived as background music.
02/10/13 11:43pm
I enjoyed participating in Experimetrix speech labs and word rating exercises that introduced to me to fields like psycholinguistics and visual studies. A friend of mine learned a fake language for a linguistics study and came back saying that it was “awesome.”
02/08/13 12:53am
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.
02/08/13 12:50am
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.
02/08/13 12:46am

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.
02/08/13 12:46am

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.
02/06/13 9:10pm
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.
02/06/13 9:06pm
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.
02/06/13 12:36am

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.
02/06/13 12:34am

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.”
02/06/13 12:31am
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.
02/05/13 12:10am

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.
02/05/13 12:07am
Jumping on the bandwagon after a season has aired and catching up on an online streaming service is becoming more and more common.
02/05/13 12:04am
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.
02/04/13 12:32am
Sometimes, I wonder how I have 193 friends on Facebook. To you, that figure probably seems astonishingly low. To me, it’s surprisingly high.
02/04/13 12:28am

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.
02/04/13 12:20am
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.
02/04/13 12:17am

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.