Opinion

Opinion Art | Alicia Puglionesi

Alicia Puglionesi is a College junior from Havertown, Pa. Her e-mail address is puglionesi@dailypennsylvanian.com.

David Lei | Different perspectives

As the semester winds down, I want to take this opportunity to reflect on how we've been doing and to answer some concerns recently brought up by readers. Looking ahead to the fall, we will continue to encourage greater reader participation. We really do appreciate it when readers get in touch with us, especially to offer an opposing point of view.

Opinion Art | Amira Fawcett

Amira Fawcett is an Engineering junior from Houston, TX. Her e-mail address is fawcett@dailypennsylvanian.com.w

Your Voice | Letters

Art and abortion revisited To the Editor: In "Risking Women's Rights for Art" (4/23/08), Mara Gordon states that Shvarts' actions were "well within her rights" but that "she owes the millions of women for whom abortion is an important option a little more respect than this.

Elizabeth Song | Reconnecting Philly

Looking for a new laptop? Forget those fancy gizmos at Computer Connection. Just north of Market Street, I spotted a hole-in-the-wall electronics store called the Super Computer Center, hosting a sidewalk sale at Depression-era rates. Old-school computers for $100.

Class Boards of 2008 and 2009 | Protecting a tradition

As spring comes into full bloom and talks of graduation can be heard, tomorrow will mark another change for the University of Pennsylvania. In the afternoon, the 253rd Graduating Class will march from Hill Field to the Quad, up the stairs to the Junior Balcony and down Locust Walk to the steps of College Hall.

Opinion Art | Daniel Schwartz

Daniel Schwartz is a College sophomore from Decatur, Ga. His e-mail address is schwartz@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Jim Saksa | One last chance to take my advice

So this is my last column for The Daily Pennsylvanian - unless my editor talks me into writing one for finals week, but I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you. Since this will be my last glorious chance to bestow my sagacity and insight upon you, my public, I have scribbled down some advice that some of you will hopefully take to heart during your time here at dear old Pennsylvania.

Editorial | Hey Day on Tuesday

Tomorrow, Penn's juniors will pick up their canes and march their way into senior year. But since the last day of classes falls on a Tuesday rather than a Friday, many juniors this year won't be able to participate in Hey Day festivities because of class presentations or exams.

Christina Domenico | Class and Hey Day don't mix

I'm ready to march my way into senior year in four days. And I'm going to - thanks to the saving grace of my Spanish professor. But many juniors aren't so lucky. Due to a change in the academic calendar and thanks to a 2006 decision by the Council of Undergraduate Deans, Hey Day - traditionally held on the last day of classes - falls on a Tuesday this year.

Your Voice | Letters

Remembering Genocide To the Editor: Nearly all elements of history can be contested, except one: history repeats itself. This is what makes historical study so crucial and the denial of historical facts so dangerous. April 24 represents a part of history that has been both contested and denied.

Lisa Zhu | Keeping the stress out of summer

Last summer, while many of her friends in Washington and Wall Street made coffee for congressmen and CEOs, College senior Elizabeth Slavitt did something inconceivable. She went on vacation. "I went to Peru with my friend for a month," Slavitt told me. "We traveled all over the whole country, practiced our Spanish and did a five day trip to Machu Picchu.

Opinion Art | Avery Lawrence

Avery Lawrence is a College senior from Charlottesville, Va. His e-mail address is lawrence@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Sarah Rothman | Saving America's science

Of the three candidates, only Senator Hillary Clinton has actually promised to end the war. The war on science, that is. Did you know we're in the middle of a war on science? We are. And it's being fought on many fronts. There are life-science researchers at Universities and the National Institutes of Health whose research could benefit from access to embryonic stem cells.

Opinion Art | Jennifer Lesser

Jennifer Lesser is a College sophomore from Minneapolis, MN. Her e-mail address is lesser@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Collin Beck | Reevaluating class evaluations

Are you reading this in a class that was so full on the first day you couldn't get a seat, but now it's as empty as your brain watching a Rock of Love Marathon? All those empty seats - I know you're thinking the same thing I am - who added all those extra chairs? Apparently, no one did.

Editorial | Move back move-out

As the sunny month of May approaches, Penn students begin to dread the darker side of spring: finals and move-out. This year, as in years past, the official move-out deadline falls at 12 p.m. on the day after the last scheduled final. And this year, as in years past, students will scramble to study as they pack with one hand and type papers with the other.

Opinion Art | Alicia Puglionesi

Alicia Puglionesi is a College junior from Havertown, Pa. Her e-mail address is puglionesi@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Mara Gordon | Risking women's rights for art

It may have slipped under the radar, what with all the election news dominating the headlines - but at a little school to the north of here, a very different sort of controversy has been brewing. My friends at Yale haven't been talking Barack vs. Hillary.

Editorial | Localizing gun control

It's time to give this city some control over its own gun laws. Mayor Nutter and the City Council recently passed tougher firearms restrictions designed to fight Philadelphia's homicide problem. But thanks to a 1974 state law, Nutter's new gun law policies are probably unconstitutional, because only the state legislature has the right to regulate firearms.