Opinion
Amy Chan | Honoring those we have lost means keeping their individuality alive
To live the way someone would have wanted us to live is a grand, beautiful task, because it requires intimate knowledge of the person we lost and it acknowledges that they were more than some casualty in the circle of life.
Cassandra Jobman | Making sense of SEPTA
CASSANDRA JOBMAN is a College freshman from Garland, Texas.
Guest Column by Marissa Alexa McCool | Not all Monologues are universal
I was cast as a fill-in last year, and somehow in 17 years of the production, that was the first to include trans performers.
Jay Shah | We all have a role to play in the Campaign for Wellness
We should not view the process of changing campus culture as an interview where one individual asks questions and the other has answers.
Letter to the Editor from CAPS Director Bill Alexander
CAPS is deeply appreciative of the superb and sustained institutional support we enjoy from President Amy Gutmann and Provost Wendell Pritchett.
Jessica Li | Combating 'toxic' masculinity
While women have often taken the initiative to discuss matters of sexual assault and violence, the absence of men in these spaces speaks louder than words.
Sara Merican | Reflecting on my first Super Bowl
We soaked in Philadelphia in all its brilliant, flashy, beeping, honking, waving, screaming, shouting splendor
Sarah Khan | Athletic with aesthetic
SARAH KHAN is a College freshman from Lynn Haven, Fla.
Spencer Swanson | Gone with the Wynn: Why Penn must tread lightly with the legacies of controversial alumni
We must guard diligently against rewriting the past just to please the popular opinion of the day and to make people comfortable in contemporary society.
Isabella Simonetti | How hookup culture has stolen our manners
Making out, sex, and everything in between — all with no strings attached. Sounds perfect, right?
Cassandra Jobman | Valentine's Day texting
CASSANDRA JOBMAN is a College freshman from Garland, Texas.
Kristen Yeh | Happy Valentine's Day from Benjamin Franklin
KRISTEN YEH is a College freshman from West Covina, Calif.
Lucy Hu | Fraternity pledging needs to end
Despite many fraternities’ cult-like efforts to keep pledging under wraps to avoid prosecution, most Penn students have heard accounts from pledges about sleepless nights, humiliating activities, and servant-type orders from pledge masters.
Jennifer Lee | To experience Philadelphia, Penn students need to ride SEPTA more
Throughout the entire journey, from hopping onto a packed trolley car to emerging aboveground through the beautiful glass head house of Dilworth Park, I feel completely immersed in the Philadelphia community.
Christine Olagun-Samuel | While you’re glued to your smartphone, Penn is passing you by
The moment our phones are held up in our hands and our headphones in, walls are put up and barriers are created.
Veronica Fenton | Putin makes a statement
VERONICA FENTON is a College freshman from Penn Valley, Pa.
Rebecca Alifimoff | For me, the CAPS referral process was barely better than Google
I went through an administrative process only to end with links to readily available databases. My CAPS experience wasn’t a referral as much as it was a brush-off.
Isabella Simonetti | Battling mental illness in my first year at Penn has made me stronger
No matter how much it’s stigmatized, how unusual it might be to be open to talking about it, my anxiety and depression have taught me to care for myself.
Kristen Yeh | Foles Commons
KRISTEN YEH is a College freshman from West Covina, Calif.