Opinions

Opinion: The Cornell Daily Sun demonstrates the power of student voices

This article includes discussion of sexual assault. Sept. 21 the Cornell Daily Sun, Cornell University’s independent daily student newspaper, published an editorial revealing the names that became...

Lessons Learned: All roads of personal growth lead to Rome

Since coming back from my study abroad semester in Rome, Italy, I have spent the last few months dwelling on the experience I had...

Opinion: Capoeira is a ‘jeito’ of life

The other night, I dreamt of berimbaus (single string gourd instruments) singing in the distance and gravelly voices whispering along to “Deixa eu passar.”...

Opinion: Even if the bubble bursts, AI will survive

It seems like it’s become impossible to navigate contemporary daily life without encountering some form of AI. From Google automatically incorporating Gemini into its search results...

Letter to the Editor: War is the antithesis of community

Tell me what is a better reflection of sanity — the poise of “Strike Package” Tom Stritikus as his crowning moment was under siege,...

Opinion: First, they came for the green card holders

Within a couple weeks of my first piece on the brazen authoritarian shift we’re witnessing in our government, the disappearance and detention of green card and...

Lessons Learned: How to find yourself in the spaces left behind

When you first arrive at college, there’s a sense that it’s someone else’s college. It’s uncomfortable, being let into someone else’s space, the lives...

Lessons Learned: A love letter to lacrosse

Sophomore year, Feb. 24, 2023, 3:37 a.m., I laid in my bed in Berkus Hall and wrote in my journal: "I love lacrosse…I still feel...

Lessons Learned: What it means to be en route to the film credits

I’ve always loved watching film credits, especially in the movie theater. I am unbothered by their plainness and length, composed of ambiguous titles and...

Lessons Learned: How to leave the rest

You never really think about it at the beginning of your first year of college, but four years is not a lot of time....

Opinion: Rolling with ideas, D&D and creative writing

Since the pandemic, we’ve all been kind of isolated. Our inability to regain footing with the easy socialization from before the pandemic has hit...

Lessons Learned: Campaign Semester gave me a growing faith in humanity — and myself

It felt inevitable for me to experience a mini-existential crisis my first year away from home as I grew into young adulthood, attempting to...