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Before I came to Ithaca 20 years ago, I voted in a friendly neighbor’s garage in San Diego. They set up voting booths where their convertible...
The Student Assembly is the undergraduate student body’s representative in Cornell’s model of shared governance; there are five governing bodies:...
This article contains spoilers for The Social Reckoning. Tyler St. Cyr ’30: Thumbs Up If you liked Snowden (2016), The Post (2017) or All the...
Editor’s note: This article references sexual assault. For the past several years, students and faculty at America’s leading universities have...
Every four years, we tune in to the United States presidential election. It’s easy: we hear about it from friends and family, see ads on social...
I moved to college when I was 18 years old. For a remarkable 20 years — until I took my first sabbatical as a faculty member — I never spent more...
In between chants invoking items usually found in the catch-all liberation toolbox, it seems that University President Michael Kotlikoff, from his...
The breakout hit movie of 2026, Obsession, is now positioning itself to sweep the awards season, with Inde Navarette and Curry Barker leading the...
Under any capitalist or fascist regime, the enforcers of that system are the police. In the United States, policing departments regularly administer...
“Was sentence of death ever pronounced except at midnight, by the light of torches, in a dark, gloomy hall, and on a cold, stormy winter's...
Editor's Note: This column was co-written with Noah Farb ’28, a junior studying economics in the College of Arts and Sciences and the...
While many of my fellow class members are getting ready to pick up their caps and gowns and pose for graduation pictures, I am not. That is because...
A man walks into a bar … An anorexic nitrous huffing klepto with prodromal schizophrenia jogs into a buddhist monastery. Cue the first meditation,...
Twenty six. That number seemed oh so far away to me four years ago, yet here we are — less than a month away from graduation. What seemed an almost...
Lots of things end with a bang, something very finite — lasting — where you feel the reverberations even when it is over. Graduation is a lot like...
I’d be lying if I said that Cornell was the school I dreamed of attending. But if I told you I didn’t love it here from the minute I saw it, that...
Coming into Cornell as a bright-eyed freshman, I thought I knew how to write. I had written and read my way through life and, for some reason, I was...
I am one of five graduating staff writers from The Sun’s Arts & Culture department, and as I reflect upon my two years with the paper, I can...
Habakkuk 3:17-19 (NIV) “17 Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce...
If we all close our eyes and think of the word ‘war’ I can bet that most of us wouldn’t associate it with ‘success,’ ‘winning’ or even...
We are living under a fascist government. This is a statement that once accepted, bears immediate moral responsibilities. Fascism is a far-right...
Poor engineering kills people. The Champlain Towers collapse caused 94 deaths; two Boeing 737 MAX crashes caused 346 deaths; the OceanGate Titan...
I’ve been avoiding writing about homosexuality in Greek Life for a simple reason: discourse invites over-examination. As Michel Foucault suggests,...
Bryan Kim ’27 is a junior studying mechanical engineering in the Duffield College of Engineering. He can be contacted at bjk228@cornell.edu. If...
After close to eight months of work, the Provost’s Committee on the Future of the American University released a set of preliminary documents this...
No, not you, but let me explain. This will be my last column for a while. I’ve had a good run and have enjoyed communicating with you all. By...
Everyone deserves to feel safe here at Cornell, especially in their living spaces. But when 35% of undergraduate women report experiencing sexual...