Opinion

Opinion Art | Avery Lawrence

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

Asuka Nakamura | Point: Terrorism Awareness Week is one-sided and divisive

This week, the Penn College Republicans are hosting Terrorism Awareness Week on campus. Penn is one of hundreds of campuses across the nation that is playing host to Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, as it is called everywhere else, and its purpose, as defined by the conservative David Horowitz Freedom Center's Web site for the project (www.

Opinion Art | Joanne Tong

Joanne Tong is a Wharton senior from Manila, Philippines. Her e-mail address is tong@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Opinion Board | Pricing students out

At first glance, Radian seems like a great idea. The complex, being constructed at seemingly record speeds on 39th and Walnut, offers a laundry list of amenities, sits on prime real estate and will do that much more to address Penn's dearth of student housing.

Jim Saksa | Awareness of Awareness Week starts now

This week is Asian Pacific American Heritage Week, Greek Week, Islam Awareness Week and Terrorism Awareness Week. Oh, I almost forgot, it's National Respiratory Health Care Week, too. Thank God I'm not an Islamic sleeper-cell terrorist of Asian Pacific heritage who lives in a frat house and suffers from asthma.

Elizabeth Song | How West Philly was won

Before Judith Rodin ascended to the Penn presidency and busted the West Philadelphia crime cartels, there was the 45th Street mosque and its war on drugs. In the early 1990s, West Philly was at the center of a murderous imbroglio of gang wars and gun violence.

Meredith Aska McBride | What we owe West Philadelphia

Out in the flyover, we don't get a lot of coastal news. Growing up in suburban Milwaukee, all I knew about Philadelphia until I was eight or nine was that it had been home to both the Fresh Prince and Ben Franklin. I've since become more enlightened, but it's ironic that I ended up at Penn, the Philadelphia institution that, more than any other, walks the line between these two worlds.

Opinion Art | Amira Fawcett

Amira Fawcett is a Engineering junior from Houston. Her e-mail address is fawcett@dailypennsylvanian.com.

Harris Steinbeg | Planning is in the air

Planning is in the air. With Penn's plan for the east-campus expansion, the Centennial District plan in Parkside, a score of community-based plans by neighborhood organizations across the city and PennPraxis' work along the central Delaware, planning in Philadelphia seems to be experiencing a renaissance.

Opinion Board | Rising above the fray

Opinion Art | Daniel Schwartz

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

Amy Gutmann | History in the making

I want to take this moment to thank the entire University community for the overwhelming outpouring of support that has accompanied the launch of our $3.5 billion campaign for Penn, which we have named Making History. Whether measured in financial terms - we already have $1.

Mara Gordon | Making the campaign count

Penn certainly puts on a good show. The capital-campaign kickoff party this weekend pulled out all the stops. Free food, free beer, lots of red and blue. It was a party worthy of an ambitious $3.5 billion fundraising goal, the amount the University hopes to raise by 2012.

Jenny Zhan | Size matters (to universities)

The time was Oct. 20, 2007 and the place was College Green. Attendees of the campus-wide fiesta queued up for some promising opening remarks from President Amy Gutmann, an array of scrumptious food, gratis booze and ear-splitting hip-hop beats. Just like that, Penn's much-anticipated capital campaign was officially set into motion.

Jason Karsh | I am student voice (and so can you!)

After this past weekend's Celebration on the Green there's no denying the increased visibility of the Capital Campaign. It's amazing to see how the weekend really brought together all members of the Penn community from students to alumni, faculty to staff and even the occasional passersby who happened to stumble upon our festivities.

Jim Newell | Why I won't donate to the capital campaign

During my wanderings on the Saturday of my first Homecoming as a Penn alumnus, I came across what appeared to be Epcot Center on College Green. As I found out, the campy festivus was actually the kickoff of Penn's new, $3.5 billion capital campaign. Penn, you slut! Anyone else go to this thing? Lasers! Amy Gutmann in strapless red! Promotional campaign videos featuring students with fun ethnic names! But hey, what about that three-beer limit? If you're throwing a party celebrating the end of the world, at least get the kids drunk.

Opinion Art | Alicia Puglionesi

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

A successful weekend

After much anticipation, the secret's out. On Saturday night, Amy Gutmann announced that Penn's goal for the five-year capital campaign will be $3.5 billion. Gutmann also announced that Penn had already raised a whopping $1.6 billion in the quiet phase of the campaign - 43 percent of the target number.

Opinion Art | Avery Lawrence

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

Guest Opinion | Craig Carnaroli

During a recent excursion to Chestnut Hill, my wife and I came across vintage maps of West Philadelphia at the turn of the last century. These illustrated images depicted land-use patterns of a heavily industrialized area, while a few tiny adjacent parcels defined the new campus of the recently transplanted University of Pennsylvania.