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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: The Sparkletts plant sits vacant. Here’s what to do.
During my second week at Occidental, I had to get my medication from the CVS on York Boulevard. As I was heading home, I...
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Opinion: Write for your inner child
There is a scene in the 2010 animated Walt Disney movie “Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue” where Lizzy, a young human girl, works on...
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Opinion: Broadway should spotlight original productions
As both an audience member and writer of original musical theater, I have recently been disappointed to see a lack of originality in Broadway...
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Opinion: A movie about ‘Nobody’
Levi Lee -
Before I start, I’m aware someone will ask me if I saw it ‘the way it was intended’, in IMAX 70mm. The answer is...
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Opinion: LA should take transportation inspiration from across the Pacific
Ryan Kim -
Getting around Los Angeles stereotypically means surrendering a couple of hours a day to freeways that don't so much move cars as hold them...
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Lessons Learned: What is lost (and found) in translation
There’s an old maxim that says, "you only truly understand something once you’ve had to teach it to someone else." I've spoken English my whole...
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Opinion: Haircutting cuts deeper than we realize
I sat in a high and uncomfortable chair, which felt like one made for a man. I glanced at my small legs dangling as...
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: Everything changes and nothing remains still
When I was little, I had extremely strict rules and expectations for my future: be a computer engineer like my father, start a nonprofit...
