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SCHAFFER | Proud to Vote

SCHAFFER | Proud to Vote

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...

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Chris B. Schaffer

STUDENT ASSEMBLY | Students, We're Listening

STUDENT ASSEMBLY | Students, We're Listening

The Student Assembly is the undergraduate student body’s representative in Cornell’s model of shared governance; there are five governing bodies:...

22.10.2026 0

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Student Assembly

THUMB WAR | ‘The Social Reckoning’

THUMB WAR | ‘The Social Reckoning’

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...

22.10.2026 2

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Tyler St. Cyr

CHEYFITZ | Cornell University: No Democracy, No Justice, No Peace

CHEYFITZ | Cornell University: No Democracy, No Justice, No Peace

Editor’s note: This article references sexual assault.  For the past several years, students and faculty at America’s leading universities have...

20.10.2026 3

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Eric Cheyfitz

CORNELL VOTES | Why Are Midterms Important?

CORNELL VOTES | Why Are Midterms Important?

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...

19.10.2026 3

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Cornell Votes

SCHAFFER | Office (after)Hours: A Faculty Perspective on Campus Life

SCHAFFER | Office (after)Hours: A Faculty Perspective on Campus Life

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...

15.10.2026 10

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Chris B. Schaffer

JASO | Trying to Screw Over the Patriarchy, Kotlikoff Screws Everyone

JASO | Trying to Screw Over the Patriarchy, Kotlikoff Screws Everyone

In between chants invoking items usually found in the catch-all liberation toolbox, it seems that University President Michael Kotlikoff, from his...

14.10.2026 10

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Francis X. Jaso

CORNELL AAUP | Statement Against Sexual Violence

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Cornell Chapter Of The Aaup

BELMONTE | We Are All Complicit

30.09.2026 20

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Adrian Belmonte

SCHWARZ | Looking Backward and Forward: Possibility and Opportunity for Each Student

28.09.2026 10

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Daniel R. Schwarz

TOBIN | Why Does Government Make Simple Things So Complicated?

25.09.2026 10

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Lali Tobin

ROGERS | The Obsession With ‘Obsession’

The breakout hit movie of 2026, Obsession, is now positioning itself to sweep the awards season, with Inde Navarette and Curry Barker leading the...

23.09.2026 10

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Brayden Rogers

PETROVA | No Justice, No Peace: Abolish Cornell Police

Under any capitalist or fascist regime, the enforcers of that system are the police. In the United States, policing departments regularly administer...

23.09.2026 20

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Mina Petrova

CLIFFORD | On Cruelty: The Usual Suspects of the Death Penalty

“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...

23.09.2026 10

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Elise Clifford

GALPERIN | When Neo-Nazis Get Invited to Campus

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...

23.09.2026 60

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Ezra Galperin

JASO | Closing a New Overton

23.09.2026 10

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Francis X. Jaso

STEINGARD | The Government Stopped Counting Hungry Kids on Purpose

27.05.2026 50

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Mihir steingard

CARUSO | Success Has Many Interpretations. The Only One That Counts Is Yours.

25.05.2026 40

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Paul caruso

KASSAM | Grace Is Like Rain...

25.05.2026 40

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Karim-aly kassam

CORNELL AAUP | Joint Statement on the Trustees’ Investigation and President Kotlikoff’s Response

23.05.2026 40

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Cornell chapter of the aaup

FASTIFF | Three Seasons of Growth

21.05.2026 60

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Eli fastiff

HARNEY | What Kind of Person Should Go to Law School?

19.05.2026 40

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Liam harney

CARUSO | The Downeaster ‘Cornell’

18.05.2026 40

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Paul caruso

SENZON | Everyone’s a Journalist

18.05.2026 40

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Julia senzon

MUÑOZ | Accepting the Gravity

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...

18.05.2026 40

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Gabriel munoz

WALTER | Dorms and Divinity: Why College Is the Perfect Stage for Religious Crisis

A man walks into a bar … An anorexic nitrous huffing klepto with prodromal schizophrenia jogs into a buddhist monastery. Cue the first meditation,...

16.05.2026 40

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Kira walter

XI | Capturing the Moment

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...

15.05.2026 40

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Timmy xi

MCNALLY | Give My Regards

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...

15.05.2026 40

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Jane mcnally

BLANCHARD | A Long-Awaited (But Not Anticipated) Goodbye

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...

14.05.2026 40

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Maya blanchard

GONZALEZ | Grad Column finalFINAL(2).pdf

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...

14.05.2026 60

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Rafaella gonzalez

ASACK | The Cornell Daily Sun Does a lot of Good. Next, I Hope They Do Quality Control

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...

14.05.2026 40

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Chloe asack

GONZALEZ | God Is Good Because Things Could’ve Happened Differently

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...

14.05.2026 40

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Anjelina gonzalez

JASO | Agoras, Underground

12.05.2026 40

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Francis x. jaso

COMMITTEE ON THE FUTURE OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY | Why Cornell’s Land Grant Mission Must Define Its Future

11.05.2026 40

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Committee

GUEST ROOM | Unfinished Campus Business: Memorializing Three Young People Who Gave Their Lives for the Right to Vote

09.05.2026 40

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Guest Author

CORNELL AAUP | President Kotlikoff’s Actions Demand an Independent Investigation

07.05.2026 60

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Cornell chapter of the aaup

SALTZBURG | A Grain of Salt

05.05.2026 50

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Ashlyn saltzburg

CLIFFORD | A Legal Overview of Birthright Citizenship

05.05.2026 50

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Elise clifford

BURZLAFF | A Final Is Never Final

04.05.2026 50

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Jan burzlaff

YUCESIR | In Transit

04.05.2026 60

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Defne yucesir

VILLAFUERTE | La Vie en Frenzy

01.05.2026 50

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Vie villafuerte

SCHWARZ | How to Resist When Universities Are Under Siege

01.05.2026 50

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Daniel R. Schwarz

TOBIN | From Iran to Ithaca: Brooks Student Takes on the Ongoing War

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...

30.04.2026 50

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Lali tobin

PETROVA | It's Fascism, Here's What

We are living under a fascist government. This is a statement that once accepted, bears immediate moral responsibilities. Fascism is a far-right...

29.04.2026 50

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Mina petrova

CROUSE | The Ethics of Engineering

Poor engineering kills people. The Champlain Towers collapse caused 94 deaths; two Boeing 737 MAX crashes caused 346 deaths; the OceanGate Titan...

29.04.2026 60

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Trevor crouse

BELMONTE | Greek Life Is Coming Out of the Closet

I’ve been avoiding writing about homosexuality in Greek Life for a simple reason: discourse invites over-examination. As Michel Foucault suggests,...

28.04.2026 50

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Adrian belmonte

GUEST ROOM | In Defense of Defense

Bryan Kim ’27 is a junior studying mechanical engineering in the Duffield College of Engineering. He can be contacted at bjk228@cornell.edu.  If...

24.04.2026 50

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Guest Author

FUTURE OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY | Seeking Feedback on Our Future

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...

23.04.2026 50

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Committee

AGRAWAL | Dedicated to My Readers

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...

22.04.2026 40

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Professor anurag agrawal

MOON | Reports Won't Stop Rape

Everyone deserves to feel safe here at Cornell, especially in their living spaces. But when 35% of undergraduate women report experiencing sexual...

21.04.2026 60

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Melissa Moon