Category: Opinion

Physical gift-giving is valuable, and its decline serves as a lens for a broader critique of digital media, efficiency-obsessed thinking, and contemporary culture amongst the youth.

We should all be concerned that many at Penn seem either unwilling or unable to engage intellectually with ideas they oppose. If students at one of the nation’s most prestigious universities cannot respond to controversial arguments without resorting to threats or intimidation, it raises serious questions about the health of intellectual discourse not just at Penn, but across higher education. 

Penn’s administration must take a principled stance by putting forward a reasonable final proposal and calling GET-UP’s bluff.

The Democrats’ divide over the California wealth tax is emblematic of the broader fight for control within the Party: the more moderate establishment versus the far-left Mamdani progressives. While the Democrats battle internally, Republicans have a unique opportunity to present their economic philosophy as a clear, sane alternative. 

Penn’s board of trustees has made the first substantial changes to the University’s code of conduct in more than a decade. The reform follows former President Liz Magill and former board chair Scott L. Bok’s resignations in 2023.

It is fair to say that within a large urban center, there will be greater instances of crime and violence. However, when these problems are common within the same consistent areas or of growing intensities, there is a societal problem.

At about 4:30 AM, Meaza Brown was struck and killed by a vehicle at the intersection of 33rd and Market Street. The vehicle allegedly blew through a red light at a high speed before then fleeing the scene of the crime. She was pronounced dead at 4:59 a.m. 

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As those who attended Penn last year would know, students found themselves in the midst of an incredibly competitive and polarizing election cycle. On Locust, then-freshmen such as myself were greeted by volunteers and activists seeking to register us to vote or campaigning on behalf of individual causes. While activists and campaigners from Planned Parenthood, the Harris Campaign, and Dave McCormick’s campaign held events here, I encountered little conversation about the war in Ukraine.

At a university where efficiency is a moral virtue, intimacy, too, has become streamlined. PMP mirrors the logic of contemporary dating apps: forms, filters, swipes, metrics. The slow unfolding of affection has been replaced by the calibrated precision of compatibility scores. In a world built on optimization, even love is expected to perform.