Articles by Matt Mantica
05/13/16 11:40am
Senior column by Matt Mantica | So it goes
I have this theory about life and regret. Senior year, and senior spring in particular, seems to be a perfect, natural time to think through these types of existential questions: it’s this inflection point, one where we break from the bubble of college into full on adulting. 12/07/15 1:21am
Letter from the President | The end is near
On February 11th, 2015, we thought we had already reached the end. 10/22/15 5:57pm
Graduate students at private schools may get collective bargaining
An attempt by the the United Auto Workers at the New School in New York City to organize is resurfacing the issue of whether graduate students at private nonprofit universities have a right to collective bargaining. 01/26/15 2:25am
Letter from the Editor | Stories of change
Even as we change, the fact remains that journalism, when done well, can do great things. 09/08/14 11:59pm
Penn falls to eighth in U.S. News rankings
After rising from eighth to seventh last year, Penn has fallen back down to eighth in U.S. News and World Report’s rankings of the nation’s best colleges. 07/31/13 9:20pm
Matt Mantica | The value of a child
When it comes to Penn Alexander, Penn is acting in its own self-interest. In helping create the school, which it did more than 10 years ago, the University was much more interested in creating a place of instruction for the children of its own faculty and staff than for the children of the West Philadelphia community at large. 07/02/13 7:14pm
Matt Mantica | The divorce of church and state
By separating the government from the term “marriage,” perhaps we can discard some of the stigma against same-sex marriage — separating the church and the state in such a way could decrease the fear some religions have of same-sex marriages. 06/12/13 5:35pm
Matt Mantica | Defriending the government
A rising surveillance state and an already stark decline in privacy points to a future where hardly anything one says or does can be private for long from the extensive gaze of the United States government. Unless we do something about it 05/29/13 10:12pm