Opinion
Your Voice | Reclaiming 'The Vagina Monologues'
The use of the vagina suit may indeed bring a small amount of shock value but in the greater service of beginning a discussion — about their vaginas and perhaps about a host of other issues.Your Voice | Questioning unfettered free speech
The Penn Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions conference last week was odious and Penn’s decision to host it in the name of unfettered free speech is questionable.Peter McCarthy | Time to fight a racist, segregationist law
Black youth, no matter what their background, age or intentions now have to think twice about living in or visiting commercial white populated spaces in this city lest they be harassed and interrogated by a police force that thinks the worst of them.
Zachary Bell | Step up, step back
Sexism has not bled-out. It’s alive and pulses through our conversations and our body language.
Brian Goldman | Redistricting is ‘gerrymaddening’
Gerry-what? Gerrymandering. It’s a conventional nickname for the art of drawing state district lines in as ill-conceived a way as possible.
Rachel del Valle | More than just three little words
In college, with boys all around, the tendency to analyze hasn’t changed as much as I’d imagined it would.Noah Feit | The truth about Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions and Israel
I have read Matt Berkman, Madeline Notewaré, and Abbas Naqvis’ guest column of Jan. 26, entitled “BDS Explained” with curiosity. Complete BDS coverageYour Voice | A 'chilling account' of a teen mob
I was horrified to read Brian Goldman’s chilling account of his assault at the hands of a gang of teenagers in busy and bustling Center City on a Saturday night.
Aya Saed | Should a point of view have a dollar value?
Don’t get me wrong. I have no qualms with free speech, since I am obviously utilizing that right as you read.
Ernest Owens | Debunking 40 acres and a month
Who thought it was reasonable to dedicate the shortest month of the year to celebrating the history of blacks?Your Voice | Our Cambodian neighbors
Not far from campus are several neighborhoods that are home to the survivors of the horrific Cambodian genocide.Your Voice | BDS a ‘tool’ to challenge racial inequality
BDS is a tool that challenges racial inequality, dispossession, displacement and genocidal violence.
Sara Brenes-Akerman | Confessions of a cheater
I’ve been immensely happy during our time together. This American Life is always there for me, offering reliably stunning narratives as a symbol of its love.
Sally Engelhart | Is brown fat the secret to weight loss?
People trying to lose weight often think that body fat is the enemy. But get this: there’s one type of fat — brown fat — that might hold the key to being thin.
Robert Hsu | Why it's the 99.9%, not the 99%
Humans come in different shapes, sizes and colors, but any two share 99.9% of their DNA. Somehow, we still tend to see ourselves as separate living entities from other people.
Samantha Sharf | 'LOVE' beyond the statue
With Valentine’s Day less than a week away, campus is littered with references to the L-word. Just as confused about the expression as I was a decade ago, I decided to take a closer look at the way the word love figures into typical Penn life.
Kyle Henson | Letting the college houses grow up
While Penn claims on its housing website that college houses “stand at the center of the Penn undergraduate experience … to form shared communities,” the system fundamentally fails to achieve this mission due to a lack of political and financial commitment from the administration.