05/11/12 3:57am
Graduation is the nudge that gets us out of college and into the real world.
04/23/12 1:59am
Young people are often lamented for their lack of organization and mobilization around youth causes. But I’m not sure if this will ever shift, because young people hold such varied political viewpoints.
04/15/12 10:59pm
Spring Fling accomplishes something that is awfully hard to find elsewhere during most of the academic year. It offers full, unbounded relief from stress and we embrace it like no other.
04/09/12 12:40am
If you’re lucky to have a tight, strong family — single parent or not — chances are that upbringing was vital in allowing you to attend Penn.
04/02/12 1:11am
When student input in selecting the commencement speaker is nothing more than a dog and pony show, administrators run the risk of backlash.
03/18/12 11:23pm
Everyone knows that if you want to get into Smokey Joe’s on a Friday night, you’ll need to show an ID.
Last week, Pennsylvania governor Tom Corbett signed a bill that would extend this same principle to the ballot box.
03/11/12 11:04pm
Tutoring, baby sitting, the University’s Big Brothers Big Sisters program all subscribe to the idea that children’s lives can be enhanced through interactions with young adults or college students.
02/27/12 2:26am
Too often, thesis writing is couched in the semantics of research, research and research. Instead, we should emphasize achievement, ambition, publication and true scholarship on a subject of your choice.
02/19/12 10:57pm
Newspapers are not going anywhere anytime soon. What I fear, however, is that the information within those papers, here in Philadelphia, will no longer tell the entire truth or even pretend to. Our view of the world will be narrowed, impaired and propagandized.
02/13/12 12:27am
Gerry-what? Gerrymandering. It’s a conventional nickname for the art of drawing state district lines in as ill-conceived a way as possible.
01/30/12 1:09am
Luckily, my encounter on Saturday left me with minimal injury, but I learned one thing — that the Bystander Effect is very much alive.
01/23/12 1:20am
With the recent closing of Fine Wine & Good Spirits on 41st and Market streets, our campus has reverted to its Prohibition-era existence.
01/13/12 12:44am
Certain crimes merit punishment with no second chances. But what Stephen Glass killed was journalism’s code of ethics: a set of principles, not a body or a mind.
12/05/11 12:53am
Two sexual abuse incidents at Penn and Penn State have given us a window into the world of institutional doublethink.
11/28/11 12:18am
There exists no right that permits a group of citizens to permanently “occupy” public space.
11/21/11 1:07am
We need to force elected officials to reform Social Security and Medicare so these programs are still standing by the time we are old enough to retire.
11/14/11 12:17am
There is a dichotomy between sports and real life, and the two must be separated. While JoePa the coach was infallible, Joe Paterno the man failed a basic tenet of human responsibility.
11/07/11 12:37am
Several arguments highlight the fallibility of Rush Limbaugh’s critique of classical studies majors.
10/30/11 11:10pm
Today, I’ve decided to come out of the closet. I’m not coming out as a gay man, no. I’m referring to the other kind of closet — the conservative closet.
10/24/11 1:23am
President Barack Obama’s announcement to withdraw all troops from Iraq by year’s end garnered relatively little attention but carries weighty implications.
