SUNBURSTS | Sunnies Over February Break

This February break, Sunnies put down their books, closed their laptops and spent some time outside of Cornell’s classrooms.

VINK | Cornell Is Recruiting for ICE

You would prefer the human race to endure, right? For most people the answer to this question is a simple ‘yes.’ Not to Palantir founder Peter Thiel.

February 18, 2026 | Mini

City Bucks Service Disrupted Following Cybersecurity Attack

A ransomware attack on a third-party service provider is disrupting students’ ability to use City Bucks, an online currency for off-campus vendors, limiting food access for students living in South Campus. 

GUEST ROOM | The Solution to Late Buses Isn’t to Take Money from TCAT

As I write this, a polar vortex is blowing through Ithaca. The real temperature is 2° Fahrenheit but with windchill it feels like -24°. Needless to say, it's not nice weather to be waiting outside for the bus. Unfortunately, that’s what I, and so many other students, have to do. Countless times, I’ve checked the arrival schedule only to get to the stop and find out the bus is delayed an extra 10 or 15 minutes. Those extra minutes matter when you’re standing in the cold or rushing to class. Time is money, and those few minutes can cost someone making it on time to a prelim or earnings from a work-study shift.

Both Men’s and Women’s Hockey Take Ivy League Championship Titles

At this moment, Cornell is the best hockey school in the Ivy League.

'A Renaissance Man:' Prof. Joseph Halpern Dies on Friday After 30 Years at Cornell

Prof. Joseph “Joe” Halpern, computer science, died on Friday at age 72 in Ithaca following a battle with cancer. 

GUEST ROOM | Hey Cornell, Stop Supporting ICE

At the start of the month, over 100 Cornell students braved the blistering cold to send a clear message to Cornell’s administration: The federal deportation machinery has to go — and Cornell must end its support for the entire apparatus. We made it clear that students will not stay silent as our innocent friends and neighbors are abducted or killed by our own government, certainly not while Cornell’s administration collaborates with the perpetrators of those crimes.

TOBIN | Free Speech Until It's Uncomfortable

Cornell likes to call itself a place where ideas can be freely shared and debated. We see that idea in promotional materials, orientation speeches and university mission statements. The First Amendment Clinic at Cornell Law School even trains students to defend free speech rights in real legal settings. But the everyday experience of students suggests a different story. When speech becomes uncomfortable, disruptive or politically charged, Cornell’s support for free expression starts to feel very conditional.

Weill Cornell Doctor Files U.S. Supreme Court Petition Accusing Top Law Firm of Malpractice

Weill Cornell dermatologist Monib Zirvi Ph.D. ’96 M.D. ’00 asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 23 to take up his claim accusing prominent law firm Akin Gump of malpractice. Zirvi alleges that the firm misled him on his intellectual property rights during the firm’s representation of Cornell in a 2010 suit, Cornell v. Illumina, where Zirvi was a witness. 

The Sound Of Metal

For a planet that has never before felt more connected, we seem to be becoming more unmoored by the hour.

YORK | ‘The Moment’: A New Kind of Music Film

In a sea of cookie-cutter music biopics and concert films, Charli XCX’s The Moment is able to capture Brat summer in an incredibly refreshing way. The Moment is a mockumentary featuring a mix of real figures playing themselves (like Rachel Sennott, Kylie Jenner and Charli herself), as well as a cast of fictional characters. The film is a meta exploration of the battle between creative integrity and financial and social security that, while a little rough at the start, ended up feeling like a surprisingly thoughtful exploration of artistry and celebrity. 

AYSW? | Not Your Average American Reality Show

I have to admit: One of my biggest guilty pleasures is reality TV. There’s something addicting about spending hours on a lazy Sunday watching dramatic confrontations and over-the-top confessions, something that feels like the ultimate comfort. For years, I thought I knew exactly what reality TV was supposed to look like: extremely chaotic, messy and very ‘American.’ 

Wuthering Heights is NOT a Love Story

Disclaimer: This article contains spoilers for Wuthering Heights (2026).

COMMITTEE ON THE FUTURE OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY | Treat University Critics Like Reviewer #2

This is a moment of challenge for universities. Critics abound and public trust is low. Responding to criticism is challenging, especially when it does not appear to be in good faith. What’s the right way to respond? How do we avoid ‘capitulating’ to unreasonable demands without stonewalling useful criticism? I believe the answer is to draw on our principles and experience as scholars — in particular, our experience in responding to Reviewer #2.

WALTER | Self-Loathing: The Anti-Evolutionary Parasite of Campus Society

Self-correction is survivalist. Self-monitoring is adaptive. There is no evolutionary benefit to self-annihilation. Yet somehow, the 21st-century college demographic reports intense levels of negative internal criticism that go beyond humility and self-deprecation. In high pressure environments, self-loathing is normalized, even attributed to a desperate scavenge for identity. It proliferates depression, anxiety and isolation. But where does it come from? 

GALPERIN | Cornell's Qatar Quandary

Do you want your education to be funded by the same source that funds Hamas?

CLIFFORD | All I Want for Valentine’s Is a Boyfr–Scooter

I was but a spring chicken when I arrived at Cornell. Wide-eyed. Kindhearted. Much has changed since then. I began to feel anger boiling inside of me. The source? Electric scooters.

JASO | Is 'Gay' Really All We Are?

Some 500 years ago, Michelangelo broke from his chisel and hammer. Having seen enough Carrara-moulded dong to sculpt David’s stoic phallus 10 times over, perhaps blindfolded, he lurched for the real thing, penning sonnets in the hundreds and gifting superior works to a young nobleman of dashing looks who likewise possessed an eye for the arts, Tomaso de Cavalieri. 

Ketki Ketkar '26 Becomes Cornell's First Ivy Individual Champion for Women’s Fencing

Heading into the Ivy League Fencing Championships, senior epee Ketki Ketkar ’26 didn’t even know that she was competing to make program history.