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...

Opinion: The Multicultural Summer Institute, the beginning of my college experience

Receiving an email that I would be traveling 2,000 miles away from home to Oxy’s Multicultural Summer Institute (MSI) seemed scary at first: I had to...

Lessons Learned: How to say ‘yes’ when you want to say ‘no’

My eye color and eye for photography are not the only things my father passed down to me. He also instilled in my growing...

Opinion: An ode to enchanter journalist Alma Guillermoprieto

Latin America is almost always subject to distortions. The often undefinable region that covers both Central and South America shares a common language (except...

Opinion: Corporate activism is the worst kind of activism

I recently stumbled upon something pretty enraging in the New York Times. It was a “paid post,” which is essentially an advertisement in article...

Opinion: It’s possible and important to keep skateboarders safe on campus

Skateboarding has a long, somewhat fuzzy history. No one knows who invented the very first board on wheels, but they were first utilized and...

Lessons Learned: How to hold on when you want to let go

Nobody wants to go to college with their older brother. No younger sibling wants to continue enduring the constant comparisons to him, risk running...

Opinion: Let’s stop hoarding dreams

When one thinks of economic inequality, they may think of Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk with their ungodly billions of dollars. They are the...

Opinion: How a pile of trash can break your heart

We’ve all seen it — the overflowing trash bins around the Marketplace. Litter spilling out in all directions, left to the wind’s devices until...