Pride in the Park 2026 Fills Downtown Ithaca With Color
Rainbow capes, bubbles and banners took over downtown Ithaca on Sunday as community members enjoyed pride with Pride in the Park festivities.
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Rainbow capes, bubbles and banners took over downtown Ithaca on Sunday as community members enjoyed pride with Pride in the Park festivities.
In an exclusive interview with The Sun, Senior Opinion columnist Yihun Stith ’26 sits down with Norman Finkelstein, political scientist and one of the most outspoken voices on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Eric Yachbes is a rising senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at ezy6@cornell.edu.
Following the Montreal Victoire’s Walter Cup victory over the Ottawa Charge — a team that featured Cornell graduates Brianne Jenner ’15 and Rory Guilday ’25 — all eyes have turned toward the offseason.
The World Health Organization received its first report of a hantavirus outbreak aboard the Dutch-flagged cruise ship MV Hondius on May 2. Two days later, health officials identified it as the Andes strain: the only hantavirus known to spread from person-to-person in rare cases, prompting a surge of misinformation, theories and false claims across social media.
Aiden Vallecillo ’26, whose foot was run over by President Michael Kotlikoff during an April 30 incident with a group of students and alumni, was issued a persona non grata notice and one-year campus ban on May 28, according to the notice obtained by The Sun.
Editor’s Note: This article contains references to antisemitic language.
This weekend, Ithaca will celebrate Pride Month with a bustling three days of festivities at the 2026 Ithaca Pride Festival Weekend hosted by the Ithaca Pride Alliance. The festival will take on the theme, “United We Rise,” and will run from Friday to Sunday, offering activities like concerts, dance parties and vendors.
President Michael Kotlikoff delivered the annual State of the University address, covering topics including controversial speakers, freedom of speech and Cornell’s relationship with the federal government, in Bailey Hall during Cornell’s alumni reunion weekend on Saturday. The address was open to registered reunion attendees and Cornell community members who presented a reunion button.
Former Navy pilot and healthcare professional Rebecca Bennett ’09 will face incumbent Rep. Thomas Kean Jr. (R-N.J.) for New Jersey’s seventh congressional district after comfortably winning the Democratic nomination on June 2.
Prof. Jessica McArt, DVM ’07, Ph.D. ’13 has been named the next Austin O. Hooey Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine effective July 15, announced Tuesday by the Cornell Chronicle.
When the students leave town, the Ithaca community comes together. Over the past weekend, the 49th annual Ithaca Festival was held in the Ithaca Commons and throughout the downtown area, featuring live music, over 150 crafts vendors and cuisine from around the world.
Flock Off! Ithaca demonstrators went downtown Saturday afternoon to cover up five Flock security cameras that were still up after the Ithaca Common Council unanimously voted to end Ithaca’s contract with Flock Safety at their March 4 council meeting.
National Dinosaur Day is on June 1 each year. To celebrate, The Sun enlisted the help of Prof. Warren Allmon, earth and atmospheric sciences, and Dr. Brendan Anderson, an earth and atmospheric sciences professor at SUNY Oneonta. Both are paleontologists from the Paleontological Research Institution and spoke with The Sun to answer readers’ dinosaur questions on just about everything — hot takes, feathers, intelligence and, of course, sex.
As the summer kicks off, Ithaca is springing to life. The Sun captured the Ithaca Festival's lively Thursday parade.
Cornell University is suing to take back possession of the closed Graduate by Hilton hotel, located on Cornell Tech’s Roosevelt Island campus.
For 30 years the U.S. government tracked how many hungry kids were in American households. They stopped in September. The Trump administration says that surveys used to measure child hunger and inform food stamp policy are nothing more than “subjective, liberal fodder” and that they “fear monger.” Yes, “liberal fodder” is in a USDA press release. The survey that was defunded is called the Household Food Security Report. It ran for 30 years under both Republican and Democratic presidents, contained no policy recommendations and is considered the “gold standard” for tracking food insecurity by Harvard researchers.
I have had enough of being told that I’m more than my grades. Every semester, final exams bring a painful end to an already-difficult 15 weeks and the outcome is still the same: a numerical or letter grade. That outcome could be good or bad news, but the classic reassurance we consistently hear that we are more than this valuation isn’t doing us any better. The solution is to change how we think about success.
Paul Kurgan '27 is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences studying Government and Philosophy. He can be reached at pjk239@cornell.edu.
This piece is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.