C’15 graduate Megan Russo once took a class on food security at Penn. One day, the professor showed a video of families in West Philly struggling to feed themselves. It was a gripping image that prompted the student next to her to raise her hand and say, “I wish I […]
As a society, people tend to brush off street harassment as merely a common occurrence that doesn’t warrant any concern. However, it is one of the, “most pervasive forms of sexualized violence” [1]. While the harassment itself usually doesn’t cause immediate damage to the victim, studies have shown that it can […]
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best… They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.” It was no anomaly that Donald Trump’s outrageous speeches on race and religion were greeted with zeal and a lead in the polls. In America and […]
Last night an audience filled the seats of Penn’s Irvine Auditorium to see Caitlyn Jenner. Buzz Bissinger– the Penn alumnus and journalist who authored Jenner’s cover story in Vanity Fair last summer, moderated the discussion. Afterward Jenner accepted questions from the audience. The discussion began after Jenner walked onstage wearing […]
“If you only read the kind of literature that reaffirms your preconceived ideas, then you end up in this very circular process—one in which you’re looking at art, literature for confirmation of preconceptions that you already have.” – Professor Lydie Moudileno Systems of privilege and social hierarchy don’t form overnight; […]
Like many Penn students, I aspire to “explore Philadelphia.” Aspire being the operative word in that sentence. It’s not for a lack of desire, it’s for a lack of time, or energy, or initiative. So with a miraculously midterm-free week, last Wednesday I jumped on the opportunity to spend an afternoon […]
One in five women. One in sixteen men. These are the horrifying statistics about campus rape compiled by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC). Even with staggering data showing that sexual assault is a very real issue at college across the nation, we still manage to sweep it under […]
From the IMPACT Archives February 2015 By Morgan Sierra Snyder Sometime in my tweens, I declared over dinner at a family party that the two greatest technologies ever invented were 1) the Computer and 2) the Tampon. My dad was mortified. I was mortified years later, when I found out that […]
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