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LIEBERWITZ | Interim President Kotlikoff Has Violated Faculty Academic Freedom

Kotlikoff owes Cheyfitz an apology. But he owes the University community something more. He owes us an affirmative, public commitment that going...

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ROSENSAFT | Why I Object to Professor Eric Cheyfitz’s Course on “Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance”

Cheyfitz's course is cause for concern. He should not be able to promulgate his anti-Zionist views in the classroom. The post ROSENSAFT | Why I Object...

22.01.2025 4

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KOTLIKOFF | Cornell’s Energy Transition

Cornell is committed to eliminating carbon emissions from its energy usage. Achieving this goal in a rapidly changing energy landscape in a manner...

22.01.2025 3

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ABOU-ALFA | We Can Do Better Than Rate My Professor

However, Rate My Professor reviews barely differ in their form from course evaluations, as both ask for written opinions on course and professor...

22.01.2025 4

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DASSER | If Oppenheimer Had Gone to Sunday School

In a world where a lack of ethical reasoning can lead to disastrous consequences, we must ask: Are we doing enough to foster genuine moral integrity...

21.01.2025 3

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AGRAWAL | Climate Anomalies and the Human Condition

Daylight savings changes our lives, whether we know it or not. Climate change adds another wrinkle. The post AGRAWAL | Climate Anomalies and the...

20.12.2024 4

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GUEST ROOM | Is Cornell Ready to Navigate the People’s Republic of China’s Political Challenges with Nuance?

Criticism of the Chinese government is not an insult to the Chinese student community at Cornell University, nor can acting as a mouthpiece for the...

09.12.2024 3

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KOH | Cornell Dining’s Dirty Secret: An Empty Promise to Student Health

Cornell is known nationally as a dining powerhouse. In this edition of IDEAS, Serin Koh reveals a dark reality behind our shining reputation. The...

07.12.2024 3

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LIVSHITS | Why I Write: The Burden of Language

No one prepared me for the heartbreak of losing my mother tongue. At Cornell, I acutely feel disconnected from the Russian language.  The post...

06.12.2024 3

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ADALET | The Administration’s Use of Persona Non Grata Status is Incoherent and Unreasonable

We are writing in response to Cornell administration’s use of temporary suspensions and “persona non grata” status as a disproportionate...

04.12.2024 2

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ABOU-ALFA | The Democratic Party Needs Change

This election, the Democratic Party has been handed its most humiliating loss in recent memory. For the first time in 20 years, a Republican...

03.12.2024 3

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MARKELL | Expressive Activity After the Election

That’s why Cornell also has an obligation to take the larger circumstances behind a disruption into account, and to extend “tolerance,” too, to...

01.12.2024 3

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PARASURAMA | Science in Defense of Life: How the Admistration is Politicizing Scientists

In many ways, I see the University as a microcosm of empire through its mass surveillance, deference to profit, and exploitation of its labor. And,...

19.11.2024 9

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GUEST ROOM | Let’s Move Past Blanket Solutions

We would welcome the opportunity for dialogue with the Cornell administration, which unfortunately has not yet occurred. Decisions on complex,...

17.11.2024 2

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BERMAN | Principle Meets Pressure: A Case for Institutional Stability

Look at our campus: Cornell has made a shift away from longstanding established policies to solve shorter-term issues — and it has proved costly....

15.11.2024 4

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FARB | The Rotting Empire

Rickford's "processing of grief" rally was anti-Israel wrapped in the farce of pro-democracy. Cornell Democrats need to do better. The post FARB |...

13.11.2024 3

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LIVSHITS | Protest as Performance

This is not a cry against protest: simply a plea for more productive protest. Your disruption should make a difference. And I hope that small...

13.11.2024 7

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CHANCELLOR | It’s Morality, Stupid!

The answer is morality. It has been common political parlance to follow Bill Clinton’s chief strategist James Carville’s advice “It’s the...

13.11.2024 2

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WEIRENS | Coming to Terms With Our Ivory Tower

I don’t speak out on politics, or controversial issues in general, much less write about them in my column. I usually stick to ranking bathrooms,...

12.11.2024 9

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FARB | The Cornell Daily Sun Has an Ideological Diversity Issue 

The emails I get in response to my columns tell me I’m courageous for speaking my mind, but I’m just saying what I think. The post FARB | The...

11.11.2024 1

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SUSPENDED STUDENTS | To President Kotlikoff: Not Your Foot

All across the country, there is a battle taking place for free speech and the future of university education. Swarthmore students face expulsion...

10.11.2024 1

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WEIRENS | We Should Write Each Other More Letters

So this is my advice for Cornell students: Take a break from your busy schedule and send a friend from afar an email or letter. I guarantee...

08.11.2024 1

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DASSER | Through Their Eyes

What goes through their minds when they see the same violence I do? How can they justify it? And how can I separate the “them” and “us” when...

07.11.2024 1

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KOTLIKOFF | Whose Foot?

Coming back to the question the student asked, no one has been referred for their speech, and free expression remains fully protected at Cornell....

07.11.2024 2

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BERMAN | Your Vote Won’t Matter, But You Still Need to Use It

Despite your (nonexistent) impact on the result of the national election, you still need to vote The post BERMAN | Your Vote Won’t Matter, But...

07.11.2024 2

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FARB | The Republic Is Not Doomed: What Donald Trump’s Election Means to the Average Cornellian

To those who voted for and supported Harris: you have lived under a Donald Trump presidency once, it will be okay a second time. You will survive a...

07.11.2024 1

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MARGULIES | Learn Everything, Disclose Nothing: Day Hall and the Surveillance State

Surveillance grows more invasive even as it becomes less visible. And somewhere, there's video. The post MARGULIES | Learn Everything, Disclose...

31.10.2024 1

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ARNOLD | Neutrality Bends Towards Donors

To opt in to institutional neutrality is to opt out of the tough calls, protecting the University from criticism by leaving little to criticize. ...

30.10.2024 2

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ABOU-ALFA | Cornell’s Most Important Overlooked Class: Labs

When it comes to scientific education, especially at a university as prestigious as Cornell, the efficacy of lab-based learning is of central...

29.10.2024 1

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GUEST ROOM | Cornell’s Persecution of Momodou Taal is Nothing New

The administration prefers this approach because their charges — and, in this case, their racialized rhetoric — do not hold up to scrutiny. They...

29.10.2024 2

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POGGI | Cornell is a Place of Community; And Soccer

What I’ve learned at Cornell is that it’s not about finding the perfect activity. It’s about finding the people who make this place feel a...

24.10.2024 2

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HU PEGUES | I’m With the Students: F*ck You, Boeing

Following a walkout organized by the student-led Coalition for Mutual Liberation, protesters disrupted the career fair through noise and chants,...

21.10.2024 3

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TIAS | I’d Rather Be a Fraternity Brother

When I first came to Cornell, all bright eyed and hopeful, experiencing sexism was simply an afterthought. Boy was I proven wrong. The post TIAS |...

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FARB | The Failure of BDS Resolution 8 is a Win for the Cornell Community

Cornell is finally signaling a willingness to move on from the attention-sucking disruption from a minority of students. The post FARB | The...

17.10.2024 2

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JASO | An Argument for Consequences: Where a Culture of Dissent Went Wrong

Administrators’ fear of issuing proper consequences proves that Day Hall’s residents have been comfortable with a new culture that feeds the egos...

16.10.2024 2

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POGGI | Rethinking Our Plates for a Sustainable Future

Whether it’s bushmeat in Ghana or insects in Southeast Asia, let’s think beyond what we’ve been conditioned to accept as “normal” and...

10.10.2024 2

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KOH | Do People Actually Care About The Crime Report That Fails Us?

Stark and simple, however, the report seems to instead strip away the humanity, vulnerability and gravity from such incidents; they are reduced to...

09.10.2024 2

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FARB | Lets Not Rally For Lebanon

In no way can I comprehend how clear-thinking, well-educated Cornell students (and faculty) can gather in support of Hezbollah The post FARB | Lets...

04.10.2024 2

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BERMAN | Get Rid of the Resume: One Page Can’t Tell Your Story

We’re humans, not resume-filling robots. We should be seen as such. The post BERMAN | Get Rid of the Resume: One Page Can’t Tell Your Story...

02.10.2024 1

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FLEMING | The Prosecution of Momodou Taal in the Words of His Faculty Support — Part 3: The Second Complaint

The underlying formal complaint, however, remains in place and has not been investigated. On Aug. 2 Taal received an email from OSCCS offering to...

02.10.2024 1

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FLEMING | The Prosecution of Momodou Taal in the Words of His Faculty Support — Part 4: The Third Complaint

The characterization of Taal as a multiple offender deserving of the harshest possible punishment is typical of the pseudo-legal language that...

02.10.2024 1

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FLEMING | The Prosecution of Momodou Taal in the Words of His Faculty Support — Part 2: The First Complaint

Editor’s Note: This piece represents the second in a four part series on the disciplinary process employed by Cornell’s administration against...

02.10.2024 1

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TIAS | Addressing Our Obsession with the U.S. News Rankings

This obsession with elite rankings and “upper Ivies, lower Ivies, HYP” in the college admissions community and beyond creates a dissonance with...

02.10.2024 1

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ABOU-ALFA | Cornell Needs to Change How They Teach Mathematics

The ultimate goal of a Cornell education is to prime young adults for their introduction into actual society; as one of the foremost academic...

02.10.2024 1

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CHANCELLOR | Black Americans Deserve Legacy Admissions

The policy of liberals is to remove the privileges of all alumni of the university, especially the Black ones. The post CHANCELLOR | Black...

02.10.2024 2

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ABOU-ALFA | Student Assembly Antics: Efficiency As the Enemy of Democracy

It is not secret that Cornellians view the Student Assembly as a shadowy institution, oftentimes more invested in internal controversy and...

26.09.2024 2

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KOTLIKOFF | An Invitation For Discourse

Cornell prepares students to be citizens of a democracy — a form of government where we don’t always get our way, and one that is often messy...

26.09.2024 10

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TIAS | It’s Time to Weed Out Weeder Courses

Importantly, no course — even a well taught one — needs a dog-eat-dog grading curve. Rather, a far more productive approach does the opposite:...

25.09.2024 3

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ABOU-ALFA | Why Students Should Have a Role in Dictating Cornell’s Research Policies

Alongside the development of science, the development of the practice of science must also be innovated upon. It is in this light that Cornell has...

18.09.2024 2

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BERMAN | Unmasking Activism: Visibility Makes Protest 

Here is the thing: protest is supposed to involve risk. History is filled with examples of protestors who stood openly and proudly for their...

18.09.2024 1

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