Opinion
Cornelius Range V | Respect should be evenly distributed
At an institution that constantly emphasizes the importance of building relationships with professional firms like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley via on-campus recruiting, I wonder if students increasingly overlook the value of building relationships with everyday people — people who play integral roles in our community.
Samantha Sharf | Reclaiming the flash mob
In recent years, however, the term “flash mob” has acquired a new meaning. Philadelphia’s non-violent high-school and college-aged residents need to reclaim the flash mob.Charles Gray | Glory outside the halls of Congress
While politics often brings out the worst in people, it can occasionally bring out the very best.Dan Bernick | Penn should sweat the small stuff
Penn should sweat the small stuff. Minor issues affect student happiness and create inefficiencies for the University.Lawrence Sherman | Crime or war? Words have consequences
Cambridge University criminology professor Lawrence Sherman argues that if we had defined the 9/11 attacks as a crime, the world would be very different today.Rachel del Valle | Half Foods: the emptiness in nutrition
The superficial health-consciousness is troublesome. Many products benefit the companies that make them more than the consumers that buy them.Jonathon Youshaei and Spencer Penn | Our Skimmer story
The junior and sophomore Class Board presidents describe why moving Skimmer to the fall made sense — enough to take a risk and hopefully revive the tradition.
Editors' Note | Take care of each other
The day after the towers fell, this paper carried the following plea: “Please take advantage — and take care — of your university’s greatest resource: each other.”Rose Espinola | A living wage for factory workers
Recent College graduate Rose Espinola wants more Penn students to buy Alta Gracia, which produces living-wage, union-made college apparel.Sheldon Hackney | Freedom is our national purpose
Former Penn President Sheldon Hackney argues that it might be appropriate to think of freedom, a communal enterprise, as our national purpose.Eduardo del Valle | The view from the tower
An architect and Penn parent working on the World Trade Center reconstruction reflects on the past and future of the site.Amy Gutmann | Creating a world of greater understanding
Penn President Amy Gutmann believes that a big piece of the answer to drive hatred out of the human spirit lies in what universities do.Ian Lustick | When the response is the catastrophe
Political science professor Ian Lustick argues that the terrorist threat has been overblown and the War on Terror has been wasteful and destructive.Howard Kunreuther | Dealing with large-scale risks
Wharton professor Howard Kunreuther says we must look to long-term solutions for dealing with the large-scale risks that we currently face — including terrorism, climate change and natural disasters.Clark McCauley | Psychology of 9/11 revisited
Bryn Mawr College professor Clark McCauley writes that we were unable to predict how far our overreaction to 9/11 would go.Isabel Friedman | Generational soul searching
Penn Democrats President Isabel Friedman asks how bearing witness to such profound tragedy and international unrest during the most formative years of our lives shapes the way we view our place in the world.Emma Ellman-Golan | Finding commonality in compromise
Former Penn Democrats President Emma Ellman-Golan writes that although the national bond formed in the aftermath of 9/11 has weakened, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be able to find other shared values or experiences that can unite us again.
Samantha Sharf | A crisis of communication
Today’s average college student was between the ages of eight and 11 on Sept. 11, 2001. We were old enough to know there was a problem, to feel that something had been lost, to watch the events unfold on the news.