Opinions
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
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...
Opinions
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...
Letters to the Editor
Letter to the editor: The jig is up, Oxy will always be anti-Black
Through engaging advocacy around the recent resurfacing of blackface and eugenics, I have been reminded of the College’s ongoing love affair with antiblackness. Occidental...
Letters to the Editor
Letter to the editor: Blackface scandal should not overshadow campus activism
Dear Editor, I am writing about the March 8 article in the The Occidental on the photograph of students in blackface in the 1984 college...
Opinions
“Annie Hall” successfully depicts the complex nature of NYC Jews
This past February, Netflix added “Annie Hall” to its extensive movie catalog. A couple of weeks ago, during my hectic midterms season, I unexpectedly saw it...
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Hang up the Anglophone: English speakers need to learn new languages
My taxi driver laughed at me for coming to Ireland to learn to speak Irish. "We all learn it in school, but no one uses...
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Real is relatable, so don’t edit your Insta pics
There’s nothing sweeter than hearing your phone ding uncontrollably from Instagram likes after posting a photo. It's even better when you get notifications that...
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Let’s start using “y’all” again, y’all
Orientation four years ago was a blur of new experiences and an overload of new information. While I remember sitting in Thorne for lectures,...
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Anti-Semitism isn’t just for the far right
In 2017, there were 1,749 religiously motivated hate crimes in the U.S. Fifty-eight percent of those were driven by anti-Jewish bias, according to the FBI....
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Self-responsibility: The perfectionist’s alternative to self-care
I actively hate the term self-care. I realize this is unpopular. For a long time, I viewed the concept as a justification to abandon discipline...
