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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Food for thought: students deserve healthier nighttime dining options
Imagine this: It's been a long, hard practice and you find yourself daydreaming about the Homestyle station at the Marketplace (MP). By the time you...
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Credit where credit is due: give student-athletes more than one unit
Approximately 25 percent of students at Occidental College are student-athletes, but these athletes aren't getting the credit they deserve. Occidental awards student-athletes with one unit of...
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Trump’s redefinition of gender is rooted in politics, not science
In 1859, Charles Darwin proposed the theory of evolution. The guy was onto something, but his peers weren't. The theory quickly evolved, so to speak, into "social...
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Dance culture promotes heteronormativity, so let’s raise the barre
At the age of six, equipped with a velvet leotard and size four jazz shoes, my blonde baby hairs tucked into a tight bun, I...
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Don’t give up hope, the fight against climate change isn’t over yet
Climate change is a little scary. But as the world reacted to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) doomsday report Oct. 8 stating climate change's most apocalyptic...
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Choose your words carefully: how your language contributes to mental health stigma
In order to change how we think about mental health and mental illness, we must challenge the stereotypes society holds. A clear manifestation of...
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Trump’s net neutrality lawsuit harms poor communities
Oh, the internet — an indescribable realm full of cute puppy videos, accessible college courses and graphic cold cases. To so many of us, it is an everyday...
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“Canceling” every problematic artist leaves no room for growth, and that’s the tea, sis
I first stumbled onto the Tumblr site "Your Fave Is Problematic" in 2014. I was biting into some unbelievably savory Chick-fil-A nuggets while listening to Chris...
