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: When our hearts go numb, we must inflame them with anger
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“The pen is mightier than the sword,” Edward Bulwer-Lytton brilliantly wrote in 1839. Of course, it is empowering to believe that words can triumph...
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: How to know when to quit
I’m a master at the art of quitting. From baseball to Mandarin to fruitarianism, I’ve dedicated myself to every activity imaginable, only to quit...
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Lessons Learned: How to heal yourself through helping others
While the world was on pause, the leaves outside my little brick house continued to change and the scent of snow meandered through the city....
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Letter to the Editor: On the Foreign and the Familiar
Hello there. Perhaps the most challenging part of this letter is identifying its addressee — whether it is the Editor, the Reader, or the...
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Lessons Learned: How to talk about philosophy without getting punched
Philosophy is a notoriously pretentious subject. It evokes names like Kant and Aristotle and Kierkegaard, that belong to dead white men who probably said and did a lot of...
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Opinion: Affirmative action may die, but racial diversity in higher education need not
In front of the U.S. Supreme Court is currently a case known as “Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard,” which is revisiting the...
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Opinion: Responding to Kanye’s perpetuation of antisemitism
In early October, I was scrolling through my Instagram feed and saw that Ye West (formerly known as Kanye West) made some antisemitic remarks online. Around...
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Letter to the editor: Occidental underutilizes its small classes
At my high school in New York City, all of our classes were conducted in a seminar style. Because classes catered to student discussions,...
