Opinion
Your Voice | Objections to Occupy Penn
Like many others, I read the guest column submitted on behalf of Occupy Penn with utter dismay.Arielle Pardes | Rethinking sexual consent
The “no means no” take on consent suggests, falsely, that if you’re not saying no you must mean yes. If you’re drunk at a party, you must mean yes. If you’re on a date, you must mean yes. The truth is that there is only one way to say yes (hint: it’s the word yes) and nothing else is permission for getting into your partner’s pants.
Joseph An | Not another column about Jeremy Lin
When I see mocking “kowtows” coming from the stands whenever Lin scores or spectators in Asian face masks with slit eyes, it makes me realize that Lin’s break into the world of NBA is but a small step towards dismantling stereotypes about Asian people.Your Voice | Fact checking BDS claims
BDS is not promoting dialogue.Occupy Penn | We are Occupy Penn, we are for the 99%
We are Occupy Penn. We are members of the University of Pennsylvania community. We come from diverse backgrounds and we are for the 99%.
Charles Gray | Moving toward a Valentine Life
I always thought that most great writing is short and sweet. But in only 81 words, President Reagan makes three pivotal points to consider in the context of Valentine’s Day, especially on a college campus.Stephen Lendman | City of brotherly love event promotes war, hate
As Dershowitz is to Harvard Law, Gur is to Penn’s Neurological Sciences department. Both schools give them classroom space to spew hate. In the 1950s, this writer attended both universities, unexposed to their agendas.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.
