Opinions
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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
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...
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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.”...
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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...
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Opinion: Academia’s new frontier is politicized isolation
May 9, Senator Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee released a white paper documenting proposals for changes to the National Institutes...
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Opinion: Student training is uninspired and outdated — Oxy should take a different approach
For anyone who is blissfully unaware of the Vector LMS, Higher Education Student Edition website, let me just say that you should enjoy your...
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Opinion: Authoritarianism thrives on inaction — Democrats need urgent resistance
The world watched as Donald Trump took the oath of office Jan. 20, marking his return to the presidency. The inauguration, held on Martin...
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Lessons Learned: (Re)making home at Occidental
I was in Spain in the fall, and now I am here, both again and for the first time. While Occidental could hardly be called...
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Opinion: What Democrats can learn from Ruben Gallego’s Senate victory in 2024
On the night of Nov. 5, 2024, my co-organizers and I were at our favorite restaurant celebrating the nearing culmination of the past months’ efforts....
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Opinion: There is no unconditional love
For the Merriam-Webster dictionary, “unconditional” is defined as “not conditional or limited.” For my mother, unconditional love is not the absence of conditions, but the weight...
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Opinion: ‘You and me got a whole lot of history’
It was December 2015. My sisters and I gathered on our olive green couch, anxiously waiting for a performance we had anticipated for months. One...
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Opinion: Joe Biden finalized our turn away from neoliberalism — it will be sorely missed
Donald Trump has been reelected president of the United States — and now, Joe Biden has entered his lame duck era. In the pages...
