FASTIFF | Three Seasons of Growth
Since I learned about their existence, I’ve always looked forward to writing a senior column.
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Since I learned about their existence, I’ve always looked forward to writing a senior column.
As I prepare to graduate from law school, I’ve been thinking about my decision to apply. I’m a ‘KJD,’ someone who went from kindergarten to law school without working in between. The cool part about that is you’re a lawyer before you turn 26. The bad part is you’re a lawyer before you turn 26.
To the Cornell Community,
Well, I’m on the Downeaster ‘Cornell’
While many of my fellow class members are getting ready to pick up their caps and gowns and pose for graduation pictures, I am not.
Dear Seniors,
President Michael Kotlikoff wrote that he was unaware that his car made contact with anyone after an April 30 incident with students and alumni where Kotlikoff was questioned on free expression and drove into a student on campus, according to a Friday email statement released to the Cornell community.
The Board of Trustees’ Ad Hoc Special Committee completed its investigation of the incident between President Michael Kotlikoff and a group of students and alumni on April 30, clearing Kotlikoff of wrongdoing and finding the actions taken by the students to be "inconsistent with University policy,” according to a statement sent to the Cornell community by the committee on Friday morning.
A man walks into a bar …
Milton Taam ’73 received a persona non grata from the Cornell University Police Department on May 4, banning him from campus for three years. Taam received the persona non grata on the basis of trespassing after being present for the April 30 incident where President Michael Kotlikoff was questioned on free expression and drove into a student on campus.
Twenty six. That number seemed oh so far away to me four years ago, yet here we are — less than a month away from graduation. What seemed an almost abstract concept for me for most of my life suddenly looms closer and closer, an inevitable reality that I’m not sure I’m ready for. To cope, I’ve been listening to Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide” the entire semester (as one does) which, beyond filling me with immense sadness, has also made me reminisce and reflect on my college experience. What have I done or learned in the past four years? What did I truly accomplish at Cornell? When pondering such questions, one thing comes clearly to mind: photography.
Lots of things end with a bang, something very finite — lasting — where you feel the reverberations even when it is over.
Coming into Cornell as a bright-eyed freshman, I thought I knew how to write. I had written and read my way through life and, for some reason, I was convinced everything I wrote had the finesse of published work. Then I wrote my first college essay, thought to myself, Well, that was easy, and proceeded to rage when it came back with more comments than I’d ever seen scribbled along the margins of a page. How dare this very accomplished graduate student with almost a decade’s worth of higher education, much more than my measly two weeks, tell me my essay wasn’t incredible?
I’d be lying if I said that Cornell was the school I dreamed of attending. But if I told you I didn’t love it here from the minute I saw it, that would be a lie as well.
I am one of five graduating staff writers from The Sun’s Arts & Culture department, and as I reflect upon my two years with the paper, I can honestly say that I’ve found my time to be very productive. It was through writing for The Sun that I found an authorial voice, came to appreciate the importance of artistic criticism (my focus area) and learned to seriously consider every word and punctuation mark. The Sun has an incredibly organized editing process that made this type of development possible. The problem is that at The Sun, all of these stages of development are immortalized in publication.
Habakkuk 3:17-19 (NIV)
On May 2, Thread Magazine launched their spring semester issue.
Cornell Cinema’s projectionist preserves the craft of film exhibition while pursuing a decades-long creative project of his own.
The views expressed in this article are entirely those of the undersigned authors and do not reflect the opinions of the committee as a whole.
“Dance culture exploits the power of music to build a future on the desolate terrain of the present.”