Madness in method: freshman elections
Last week, the freshman class was subjected to endless abuse in the form of cringe-inducing Gangnam Style videos and bad puns as freshman elections for the Undergraduate Assembly raged on. An...
View ArticleNot the post-racial age: An interview with Penn prof Steven Hahn
Remember 2008? Remember that feeling of excitement, that upswell of emotion, that urgency as if somehow politics, in spite of all the sound and the fury, had really changed. For Steven Hahn, Pulitzer...
View ArticleCheck Yourself
In the aftermath of one of the wonkiest and statistics-driven presidential debates any policy nerd can remember, fact checking has dominated the political discussion. It is impossible to walk through...
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NY Senator Kirsten Gillibrand visits Penn
Courtesy of personaldemocracy / Creative Commons Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a rising star in the Democratic Party, visited Penn’s campus today to give a speech on what effect the presidential...
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From The DP | Majority of Penn employee donations go to Democrats
In this election cycle, Penn employees are cumulatively the third-highest political donors among Ivy League schools. University employees have made a total of $472,008 in political contributions this...
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Arlen Specter dies at 82
Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania’s longest-serving senator and a 1951 College graduate, passed away from cancer earlier today, at the age of 82. The hope of a future with more compromise in American...
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From the DP | Students dedicate their time to Romney campaign
JUSTIN COHEN | DP College senior Carolyn Vinnocombe and second-year Graduate School of Education student Matthew Stern are two students working to get Mitt Romney elected in November. In the 2000...
View ArticleEd Rendell, Bob Casey to visit Penn
Update: November 4, 1:11 a.m. — Due to Clinton’s visit to the Palestra — planned for Monday — this event has been CANCELLED. ______________________________________________________________________ On...
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Bill Clinton to speak at the Palestra
Courtesy of mou-ikkai (Kate Wellington) / Creative Commons Monday, the day before the election, former President Bill Clinton will address a public audience at the Palestra (you can get a free ticket...
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Divestment: a new way to go green
Courtesy of School of Natural Resources / Creative Commons Over the years, the environmental movement has come up empty-handed on many occasions, and progress on climate change has proved elusive....
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Neoliberalism Unchained?
Courtesy of http://www.guardian.co.uk One of Penn’s own – political science professor Adolph Reed Jr. – has published a lengthy and impassioned criticism of the “cultural politics” that he claims...
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Hide the Newspaper, Honey
Photo Courtesy of BostInno A Welcome Back Message from the Editor Information-starved as I was during my lethargic summer, I at least made attempts to slouch from the bed to the couch and absorb my...
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P.W. Singer: Of Robots and Men
Image Courtesy of flickr.com Defence Images (UK) P.W. Singer, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, visited Penn on Monday and presented the ideas behind his book Wired for War: The Robotics...
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