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...

Hugh Hefner advertised progress but sold misogyny

For every person who idolizes the late Hugh Hefner, there is at least one person who despises him. On one side, both in media and in...

Radical party favors: the commodification of ‘wokeness’

A few weeks ago on Saturday Night Live, Ryan Gosling and the usual cast poked fun at millennial consumerism’s obsession with appearing socially conscious. They aired...

Stop using veterans to show your patriotism

Over the past month, protests from athletes around the country have provoked outrage from the right, who have beat their chests until they were...

We should reach out to the community beyond our borders

After a weekend beach trip, a Thursday night of bar hopping or even a midnight walk down to Donut Friend, it can be easy...

Taking a knee during the national anthem is a patriotic protest

The use of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at sporting events dates back, on record at least, to the early 1900s. Because the United States had...

No more free passes for supporting immoral artists

I went to see “Manchester by the Sea” in theaters. I paid for it, it made me cry and the story stuck with me...

We are here and (believe it or not) we are queer

I came out for the first time the way many people do — on social media. Two years ago, in the spring semester of...

Neutrality vs. Objectivity: The Weekly weighs in

The Weekly has long prided itself on being an objective purveyor of news on this campus. We have carved out a role for ourselves...