Opinion
Editorial | Penn security guards are not paid $15 per hour. It's time to raise their wages.
Penn must pay workers the living wage that they deserve and that is now mandated by the city.
Editorial | Penn students must boycott McKinsey in light of its work with ICE
It is incumbent upon Penn students to hold the consulting firm accountable and refuse to participate in its recruiting in the future.
Sarah Khan | Post-Thanksgiving work
SARAH KHAN is a College sophomore from Lynn Haven, Fla.
Tejaswi Bhavaraju | Liberals: Don't just protest conservative speakers. Debate them.
Instead of protesting, groups that disagree with a speaker's message ought to confront their ideas.
Lark Yan | The 6B must continue to fight for more space for the cultural houses
Until minority groups see equal representation and value on campus from Penn administration, via equal spacing and resources, then whatever small offers Penn might provide will not be good enough.
Urooba Abid | The Harvard-Yale protest gives me hope
This is our future on the line. We do not have the luxury of waiting to be the leaders of tomorrow.
Sophia DuRose | Penn must educate its student body on birth control
While SHS does list failure rates of other kinds of contraceptive options, they have no information about what those options are or how to use them.
Editorial | Penn students, donate unwanted items this holiday season
This holiday season, donate belongings that no longer bring you any use to not only reduce the waste we produce, but also so someone else in need can stay warm this winter.
Editorial | Penn should add an extra day to Thanksgiving break
To promote student well being and allow students greater travel flexibility, Penn must expand this break by adding the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.
Sophia DuRose | Stop flyering on Locust
I’m sure I’m not the only one with scraps of unread paper crushed in the bottom of my bag. If you’re with me, I say let these be the last flyers to go to waste.
Editorial | Penn football has one shot to defeat Princeton. Students must show up.
Even more important than its own season, Penn football has a chance to spoil rival Princeton's year, and will need the support of Penn students to do it.
Sarah Khan | Penn Law name change timeline
SARAH KHAN is a College sophomore from Lynn Haven, Fla.
Surayya Walters | Stop ignoring tokenism at Penn
In the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘’we must learn to live together as brothers or we will perish together as fools.'' We must be the change we seek.
Alfredo Praticò | From Kendra Brooks to Carey Law, student voices can effect change
Our voices made an impact. We saw the specific issues we wanted changed, we came together, we worked hard, and the results we wanted came through.
Alfredo Praticò | Penn must give us more breaks
As Penn makes deliberate efforts to increase student wellness at Penn, our academic calendar has to be leveraged as a tool to decrease the negative effects our campus culture has on ourselves and our peers.
Editorial | Faculty have a responsibility to support student activism
Any faculty at Penn that are still avoiding critical debates on our campus, like the fight for a graduate student union or payments in lieu of taxes, should take a lesson from the faculty and students willing to protest for a better future, and step off the sidelines.
Connor Brandon | Remove the stigma around men in nursing
We live in a society where we praise women for holding positions of power in their fields, which we should. We should celebrate women for holding powerful positions, but these women are celebrated because the positions they hold are stereotypically held by men.
Emilia Onuonga | Don't feel embarrassed about your work-study job
At Penn, I've realized that very few people talk about working, let alone having work-study jobs. Even when students do discuss it, it's in lowered voices.
Hadriana Lowenkron | Social media gives progressives a platform to create change
We must see the efforts of student activists — at Penn and elsewhere — as success stories that disprove Obama’s disingenuous and moderate approach to cultivating change.