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...

In the Mueller investigation, truth trumps partisanship

For two years, the Mueller report has been a prominent media story and conversation topic among the American public. It rose above other scandalous...

Letter to the editor: We must acknowledge Zionism’s historical connection to white supremacy

Before I address the bulk of “We need productive dialogue among Jewish students at Oxy” by Maddie Solomon, I’d like to make a comment...

Letter to the editor: Take Back the Night event encourages survivors to share their stories

We all know that Oxy has had a tumultuous past with sexual assault. I remember when I was on a tour of the school...

Think the NZ Shooting “isn’t us?” History says otherwise

There should be little surprise about the recent mosque attack in New Zealand. Sadness, yes. Shock, maybe. Surprise, no. These continued attacks — in New Zealand,...

Armenian women show that feminism is more than a t-shirt

Feminism is more than raising a poster with a feminist slogan and more than a t-shirt that says “feminist." Feminism is about women breaking...

College admissions should show fairness, not favoritism

A few weeks ago, I was reading a high schooler’s essay about her experience learning English and her relationship to American culture through cinema. In...

Should Oxy rescind an honorary degree to a racist recipient?

In his book “Applied Eugenics,” written in 1918, Paul Popenoe wrote: “No matter how much one may admire some of the Negro's individual traits,...

Oxy should take more measures against mental illness

Our generation is experiencing a record-breaking mental health epidemic. 48.2 percent of college students experience anxiety and 34.5 percent experience depression, according to the Association for...