Michelle Dubert | Stopping crime isn't just the police's job

It took my own home being burglarized for my wake-up call: Students aren't doing enough to protect themselves from crime.

Michelle Dubert | Two jokes, two reactions

Few people complain at constant Jew-bashing in 'Borat,' yet Saad Saadi's Halloween costume draws fiery criticism.

Michelle Dubert | Watching the work train go by

College students not planning on entering business are left battling midterms while other students pick up job offers.

Michelle Dubert | Democrats' rotten sugar daddy

There's a call in every election to extract the money from politics. Soft money contributions have been curbed, but it's hard to stop a billionaire from donating his personal fortune to a cause.

Michelle Dubert | Fighting history, GOP has a shot

In next month's contests, Republicans will have to overcome curse of sixth-year election and spat of controversies.

Michelle Dubert | Phillies deserve real fans

This city gets far too caught up in Eagles mania, and the Phillies get left in the dust for no reason.

Michelle Dubert | Bob Casey: the anti-Santorum

Pennsylvania Senatorial candidate Bob Casey isn't running on his on platform - he's just running against Santorum.

Michelle Dubert | Why should Harvard lead the way?

On Dec. 11, 2002, I did math homework for the last time. I was done with derivatives forever, since the following day I was accepted early decision to Penn. High school sort of went uphill from there. Last year, 22,754 of the world's overachievers applied to Harvard, 3,869 of whom applied early.

Michelle Dubert | An honest push to the extremes

When I read and think about some of the primary elections that have come and gone this year, I am immediately reminded of everything that's right and everything that's wrong with American politics today.

Michelle Dubert | An icon takes its rightful place

In one of the more defining moments of my Penn life under Amy Gutmann's reign, 34th Street asked the University president if she believes art has to be beautiful. "No," she answered flatly, definitively. Next question. The notion of what art truly is and what it looks like is a topic that connoisseurs and dilettantes debate with equal tenacity - what qualities make something art? What makes a Jackson Pollack "art" over, say, a larger-than-life rendering of a fictitious Philadelphia icon? The Philadelphia Museum of Art has wondered that recently, as it fought to preserve its artistic hegemony over a city proposal to set an eight-foot-six-inch bronze Rocky Balboa statue at its steps.