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Grace is like rain; it falls on every person. It does not discriminate. The art is to know when to cup one’s hands and receive its awe-inspiring insights with humility and gratitude.
Despite pouring rain, cold temperatures and blustering wind, students from Cornell’s Class of 2026 gathered across two commencement ceremonies on Saturday to receive conferments of their degrees.
The undersigned issue this joint statement to express our outrage about the conduct of the Board of Trustees and President Michael Kotlikoff in response to the April 30 and May 1 sequence of events involving President Kotlikoff and Students for a Democratic Cornell.
From the sound of the first drum beat, the dancers matched each movement precisely. Every footstep echoed forward carefully, their ghungroos, traditional anklets with brass bells, following each movement.
Joseph Margulies (CAS ’82) is a Professor of the Practice of Government in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Did you know that among respondents to The Sun’s polling, the college with the greatest percentage of legacy students in the Class of 2026 was the School of Industrial Labor Relations? Or that the home region of respondents with the highest GPA was the South?
I’m the Cornell alum who, along with four students, conversed and walked with President Michael Kotlikoff to his car after the Cornell Political Union Israel-Palestine debate featuring Norman Finkelstein on April 30.
Paul Sawyer is a Professor Emeritus in the College of Arts and Sciences and a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow.
The first time you saw my name was likely in a byline.
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.
Solutions by The State News
