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Opinion

01/10/12 11:58pm
Facetime or not, I still have a strong desire to keep learning. I want to continue the intellectual conversations that have started in the classroom.
12/12/11 12:13am

Cheers and Jeers | Fall 2011

Read a list of the best and the worst things that happened at Penn this semester in The Daily Pennsylvanian’s semiannual recap.
12/12/11 12:06am

Rachel Heller | Challenging the Pokémon master

As for emulating the anime protagonist Ash Ketchum: one should be quick to remember that Ash is perpetually ten years old and has rejected higher education in favor of immediate gainful self-employment.
12/09/11 2:53am

Editorial | Indebted to our education

The campaign to refuse paying student debt fails to tackle the rising cost of higher education
12/09/11 2:31am
Diversity is multi-dimensional, and we overlook the fact that it encompasses all aspects of our lives, including our religion, socioeconomic status, intelligence, hobbies and interests.
12/09/11 2:23am
The justification for exploiting a woman’s body in order to raise money for charity is perhaps one of the most socially counterproductive things that I have ever heard in my life.
12/08/11 1:40am

Your Voice | Halting the racism cycle

Based on Penn’s history, it is clear that action must be taken to halt the continuous cycle of racism.
12/08/11 12:53am
Mojo is a hard thing to define but easy to recognize. You either have it or you don’t. And I did not.
12/08/11 12:39am
Since the Centers for Disease Control are clearly neglecting their duties regarding the pandemic of haters, it falls to me to put out this public service announcement.
12/06/11 11:42pm
Often in staking out our own identities, we inadvertently reinforce barriers or create new ones.
12/06/11 11:34pm
Many magazines manipulate images without telling their readers. A group of researchers at Dartmouth College may have solved this problem by discovering a way to determine how extensively a digital photo has been edited.
12/06/11 1:34am
A University of Kentucky College of Medicine professor writes a guest column on how Penn Integrates Knowledge professor Ezekiel Emanuel should lead the change in health care, starting at Penn.
12/06/11 1:13am
Would Herman Cain’s fondness of extra-marital affairs really affect his ability to make decisions and craft policy?
12/05/11 12:53am
Two sexual abuse incidents at Penn and Penn State have given us a window into the world of institutional doublethink.
12/05/11 12:46am
With the limited job options and the seemingly limited desire to create new ones, I have to wonder if we, too, are all a lost generation.
12/05/11 12:27am

Your Voice | Note from a ‘happy smoker’

A reader defends his right to light up in response to a column by Dan Bernick about creating a smoke-free campus.
12/01/11 11:59pm
On-Campus Recruiting has turned Penn’s very intellectual atmosphere into a pre-professional fiasco.
12/01/11 11:41pm
We need to embrace students from all economic backgrounds. There is no shame in being from a low-income family.
12/01/11 1:32am
Vitamin C, Zicam, echinacea, Airborne, Cold FX. Should you invest in homeopathic cold preventions and remedies?
12/01/11 1:27am
I’m a 25-year-old undergraduate. When I returned to school, I asked myself, “Would I be that older guy buying alcohol for his friends? Would I be out of shape academically after three years of no exams?”