Opinion

Christina Domenico | Preaching the obvious

With just a year until I make the dreaded leap from undergrad to alumna, I can't help but wonder what my graduation day will entail. It's supposed to be one of the most important days of my life, one that I'll remember as I wander my way through life's ups and downs (and sideways).

Simeon McMillan | Making class a social affair

"Imagine a world where you could manage your entire life from Facebook - it's not that far off!" While you were home recuperating from the intellectual hazing that was Finals Week, an academic juggernaut other than Penn was "Making History". Blackboard, a premier course management website, announced the release of the Blackboard Sync - its first ever Facebook application.

Editorial Board | Bring back the ban

In 2004, a federal ban on assault weapons expired. Now, four years later, Mayor Michael Nutter and Governor Ed Rendell want to reduce violent crime nationally by convincing Congress to re-enact the ban. The ten-year federal ban forbids the possession, manufacture, use and import of assault weapons.

Wil Hershner | Attitude is everything

A month ago, you'd be hard-pressed to hear me give my experience at Penn a positive review. But like most things in life, you only really appreciate something once it's truly gone. And now, situated at that cusp between "the best four years of your life" and the rest of it, I've started to realize that my own natural tendency to be miserable and deprecating aside, Penn wasn't all bad.

Opinion Art | Avery Lawrence

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

Editorial | Best wishes, Class of 2008

Over the course of the last four years, the Class of 2008 has learned a lot about life - and taught us just as much. As mentors and friends of the other undergraduate classes, the graduating seniors will be sorely missed. With their days as Penn students numbered, this year's senior class can review their time at Penn with pride, and the future looks nothing but bright.

Jasmine Fournier | One last goodbye

Hello. Some of you may know me as the zany former editor 'n chief of 34th Street magazine who woefully will soon be pushed, rather shoved, into that nebulous place commonly referred to as the real world, but some of you may not. I would like to share some brief ruminations with you and I hope that you will be entertained.

Anne Dobson | Accept imperfection

Shortly before I graduated from high school, I opened a fortune cookie that would change my life forever. "The work of the world cannot wait for perfect people," it read. I was a girl who was plagued by self-doubt throughout high school - a girl in love with the idea of going off to college (proudly sporting a Penn sweatshirt during her senior spring) but who was terrified of messing up an experience that she knew could impact her entire future.

Mara Gordon | Finding my way

On the last day of classes, I ran into my freshman advisor on Locust Walk. She and I had a quick catch-up as we walked together before the mayhem of Hey Day began. The last time we had really talked was my sophomore year, when I had just declared my American History major and thought I wanted to be a political journalist.

Your Voice | Letters

Enforcing our rights To the Editor: An editorial by The Daily Pennsylvanian's Opinion Board titled "Stand up to the RIAA" (4/21/08) deserves a response. There's nothing novel or unique about the copyright infringement legal actions (lawsuits or pre-litigation letters) that we bring on behalf of the major record companies.

Shawn Safvi | Learning to live a little

It was some time at the beginning of last December when I was officially done with my duties as executive editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian. We had just elected a new board, and although there were some loose ends to tie up, the finish line was all but here.

Simeon McMillan | Don't cry for me, Penn

Whoever said the ending is always anticlimactic couldn't have been more right. With only two weeks until graduation, I look at myself and realize how little has changed over the past four years. In many ways, I'm leaving Penn the same way I entered: broke, single and with a mild case of insomnia.

Eric Sukumaran | The most important lesson I learned at Penn

My time here comes to a close. I only got three years at Penn because I transferred here and I found out the difference between a good university and a great one (relax, this is the great one). Yet I feel a certain sense of disappointment that we, at an elite university, are not coming away with the education we should have received.

Opinion Art | Daniel Schwartz

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

Editorial | Cheers and Jeers

CHEERS  To student political groups, for their impressive efforts in increasing voter turnout to record levels in the Pennsylvania primary.  To the University, for unveiling a bold financial-aid plan that will replace loans with grants and greatly increase the affordability of a Penn education to middle-income students.

Collin Beck | Memoirs of a Penn student

The year was 2004. It was a simpler time. Usher's "Yeah!" played on the radio, you never had to worry about your drunken actions becoming a Facebook album, and Britney Spears was hot. But most importantly, I started college. I was excited when my cab pulled up to Hill House for the first time.

Your Voice | Letters

Misleading rhetoric To the Editor: Sarah Rothman's recent opinion piece on the current administration's "war on science" was misleading. After 9/11, George Bush described a war against freedom being waged by the terrorists and suggested that they are against all forms of freedom since they attacked the U.

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