These columns were written in Fall 2002. The Daily Pennsylvanian's page is mirrored here; you can read all the comments written about them by Penn students from there. Column titles were written by DP staff.

• Fight to stop an unjust war (9/25/02)
  • A melodramatic piece against the then-imminent Iraq invasion.
• The Cosa Nostra of Pennsylvania Avenue (10/1/02)
  • On the International Monetary Fund and its mafia tactics.
• The failure of the Edison experiment (10/8/02)
  • Lamenting the privatization of several Philadelphia schools.
• Questions? Forget them! It's Arbitrary Day (10/15/02)
  • Penn's arbitrarily chosen fall-break day coincided with the Iraq war resolution.
• Made in heaven (10/22/02)
  • On the many character flaws of Dick Cheney on the occasion of his visit.
• The Morrill minority (10/29/02)
  • An endorsement for Morrill for PA governor, after he'd already conceded.
• The University's fight against democracy (11/5/02)
  • On Penn's refusal to tally the graduate students' votes to unionize.
• Aged idealism, kept or lost? (11/19/02)
  • Suggestions for retaining one's principles upon gainful employment.
• A math class that goes beyond the formulas (12/3/02)
  • An advertisement for an experimental course, Mathematics and Politics.