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Opinion


Fun Party Game: Guess Where I’m From but Every Time I Make Up a Fictional South Asian Country

You begin to feel how one usually feels after a few drinks: socially and morally conscious about your racial identity. 


Fuck Summer Internships, I Want to Be Remembered for My Art

Internships are seasonal, art is forever.



Damn, This Lovely Spring Weather Is Making Me Reflect on the Cyclical Nature of It All

How was your spring equinox? I almost forgot to ask.


Gatekeeping the Toxic Situationship Soft-Launch Until You Slay

None of these words were in The Bible. 


I'm Done With These Halal Food Trucks, Point Me To The Haram Ones

Having Halal Food Won't Absolve You of Your Sins


Boy Gone Wild: My Licentious Spring Break in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Definitely the easiest of the two capitol stormings I have participated in in my lifetime.


Editorial: I Am Not a Veteran

not a veteran I am not a veteran I do not identify as one or more


OP-ED: That Never Happened

A recounting of pre-break events


Photo Essay: Welcome to My World of Truly Delicious Foods

Buckle up and let's discover some great foods together...


OP-ED: I’m Going to Cabo for Spring Break in a Woke, Leftist Way

 As Marx once said, “let the people darty.” 


You Think You Can Jaywalk Across Spruce Street to Lower Quad Better Than I? Watch This.

 My hands are sweating. I’m Usain Bolt in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. 


Super Bowl? I Thought This Weed Was Just Okay

I mean, it was a fun sesh, but super? I thought it was pretty standard, all things considered. 


OP-ED: I Lost My Dignity to Bento Box A

Imagine if they were cheaper around finals... I would personally not be spared



op-id: i got my hipocampal fat removal at es aych es i think

i said i want to luk like liamishel and i want surgury liamishel has and nurs sed ok


Breaking! I Was Held Hostage and Tortured Inside Five Guys this Entire Time

It’s incredible how much mental and physical torture five men can inflict in just 18 months.


OP-ED: I've Been Thinking Recently

Thinking. Pondering. Wondering.


How to Gently Tell Your Friend That All Sororities Are the Same Tier in the Eyes of God

He does, however, consider your membership in ILMUNC, the Philomathean Society, and Penn Democrats.


OP-ED: How Can I Pursue A Career In Academia In A Cool, Ironic, Cool Kind of Way?

I guess one way would be to write for some shitty comedy outlet a few times a week and just delegitimize everything I do in class. 


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