2022-23

Introduction

Editors’ Letter

A Recent History of Organizing at Penn

Students rally in support of Mackenzie Fierceton, a former undergraduate student and foster youth who was manipulated and abused by University administrators. In this image, a brown girl with dark hair holds a sign that reads: WE DEMAND PENN SUPPORT SURVIVORS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE. Photo courtesy of Billy Penn.

Penn’s Impact on Students and Staff

Cultural Houses at Penn: A Decades-long Deadlock

How Frats Get Away with Shit: A History of Greek Life, Violence, and Impunity at Penn

How Penn and Other Universities are Turning Teaching Into Temp Work

Inside the Fight for a Grad Student Union

“Just trying not to get sued”: Student Experiences with Weingarten

Penn Can Do More to Support FGLI Students

Penn Loves Your Trauma Until They Don’t: Mackenzie Fierceton’s Story

Penn’s Problematic History of Union-busting

Physical Inaccessibility at Penn

Sexual Violence at Penn

Student Experiences with Confidential Resources at Penn

The Erosion of Asian American Studies

The Reality of Mental Health Resources at Penn

Understaffed, Underfunded, and Undersupported: Medical Services at Penn

A video of Penn’s campus growth, from 1870 to 2015. The video shows Penn expanding from a small strip of land near the Schuylkill River to the new neighborhood of University City. Video courtesy of Penn Archives.

Penn’s Impact on Philadelphia and the World

A Brief and Violent History of Campus Policing

A Case of Institutional Failure: Penn’s Response to COVID-19

A History of Displacement: Penn’s Broken Promises to the Black Residents of “University City”

Exploitation “for Science”: Unethical Research at Penn

How Penn is Cheating Philly’s Public Schools

Penn and the Climate Crisis: A System of Destruction for Profit

Penn’s Pipeline to White Collar Crime

Penn’s Treatment of Indigenous Peoples

Remembering the MOVE Bombing

Save the People’s Townhomes: A Fight for Affordable Housing in Philadelphia

The Enduring Connection Between Penn and Slavery

Who’s Who of the Penn Trustees

Why Can’t Penn Talk About Palestine?

Conclusion

Tying it All Together