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...

No more disbelief over accusations of sexual harassment

When I first heard the news of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, I felt several emotions, among them anger, disgust, frustration and empathy for the...

Journalists face a dilemma when covering sexual assault

As journalists, our job is to report facts; we seek to report what happened to whom, when, where and if at all possible, report...

Spacey turns ‘coming out’ into a weapon

There is a long and ugly history of associating gayness with pedophilia. Homophobes characterize gay men as predatory, and use this as an excuse...

Bowe Bergdahl: Hero, traitor or human?

Don’t read the comments — that’s the first rule of Facebook. Regardless, I waded into the swamp. This time my fix was a news story...

Crisis in Puerto Rico: A reminder of American arrogance that precedes Trump

Trump's response to the current humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico has been both contemptuous and ignorant. His casual paper towel throwing, obsession over "our"...

It’s time to price dorms by quality

As a first year, I expected to have a lot of emotions when I stepped on campus the first day: excitement, nervousness, curiosity, even...

Live from New York, comedians normalize Trump!

Watching Alec Baldwin look into the camera dressed as Donald Trump and announce, "live from New York, it's Saturday Night!" is still unnerving. One...

Working hard or hardly surviving the workload

As my undergraduate career nears its end and my job search begins, I’ve started mulling through the standard set of post-grad anxieties. Did I...