Letter: Modesty needn’t slut-shame

By Letter to the Editor / November 12, 2013

Eliora Katz’s article in the November 8 issue of the Maroon gives an excellent defense of virtue’s place in an all-too–licentious environment. Nevertheless, she makes a misstep by citing Kate Taylor’s atrocious New York Times article about “hookup culture” at Penn. The article, which flagrantly cherry-picked and misrepresented the attitudes of Penn students, was based...

Letter: Models matter

By Letter to the Editor / November 10, 2013

Anastasia Golovashkina’s point about the danger of an over-simplified economics curriculum (“Contextualizing Curriculum” 10/29/13) is well-taken. However, it sounds to me like she is describing the way economics is taught elsewhere: poorly. When I majored in economics at the University of Chicago, the coursework was taught with an eye towards the complexity of the outside...

Letter: Harper economics tutor contextualizes curriculum

By Letter to the Editor / November 10, 2013

I was shocked to read Anastasia Golovashkina’s October 29 article “Contextualizing Curriculum.” It seems she doesn’t understand what I was taught on the first day of every single one of my economics classes at this University: that economics is a discipline studying the “allocation of scarce resources” using mathematical models derived from qualitative analysis and...

Letter: Questioning IOP event

By Letter to the Editor / November 5, 2013

Having read your report (“IOP Alters Program After Insensitivity Claims,” 11/01/13) on claims about insensitivity at the Institute of Politics (IOP), I feel compelled to voice a different kind of complaint regarding activities at this institute and its meaningful contributions to life at the University. Others may be troubled by the food served at the IOP...

Letter: Investing in the future

By Letter to the Editor / October 22, 2013

Divestment may have short-term consequences, but it will pay off in the future.

Letter: Institutionalizing Input

By Letter to the Editor / October 15, 2013

The University’s process of receiving input is inherently biased.

Letter: Lessons learned from SG election disqualification

By Letter to the Editor / August 19, 2013

In response to "SG Candidate Disqualified, Slate Issued Penalties" (April 30).

Letter: Burqa ban debate in context

By Letter to the Editor / June 4, 2013

In response to “Neither respectful nor liberating” (May 31).

Letter: In defense of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions

By Letter to the Editor / May 24, 2013

In response to "The flaws of ahistorical activism" (May 21).

Letter: C&G Liaison write-in explains candidacy

By Letter to the Editor / April 30, 2013

Entry into unopposed race prompted by desire to put community experience to work.

Letter: UCMC unresponsive

By Letter to the Editor / April 26, 2013

Hospital admins must make good on public discussion promise.

Letter: Event posters use offensive rhetoric

By Letter to the Editor / April 19, 2013

Political Union event title disrespects undocumented immigrants.