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How will this affect LeBron’s legacy? For over a decade, this question has signified LeBron James’ status as one of the greatest NBA players of all time. He’s continued to excel in the league past his physical prime and is a repeat gold-winner at the Olympics, solidifying his status as a world-famous athlete and philanthropist.
Various Cornell classes across departments have begun integrating artificial intelligence to supplement students’ learning and improve efficiency.
Willard Straight Hall came to life Wednesday evening. The beat of rhythmic feet, echoes of laughter and lively latin dance music — courtesy of a live DJ — breathed energy into the cavernous room as students, faculty and community members alike came together to celebrate Dominican and Haitian dance traditions.
As a child, I absolutely loved Toy Story. What kid doesn't want their toys to secretly have magic lives of their own? Though perhaps marginally less, I loved Toy Story 2. I might have even loved Toy Story 3, but by Toy Story 4, I was wondering if Disney had lost the plot. Was it a bad movie? Personally, I didn't think so, but I did think they were starting to seem a little desperate. I mean, how much can Disney milk classic characters like Buzz and Woody before it just becomes too much? Besides, they could not even be bothered to come up with names beyond "Toy Story" plus a number. Already having poked fun at Toy Story 4, you can imagine my reaction when they announced Toy Story 5. My irritation does not end with Toy Story however. Frozen 3? Moana 2? Live-action remakes of every other movie? You can color this Disney die-hard unimpressed with the direction that their film-making has gone. In the past five years, the collapse of Disney's originality is apparent as they continue making cash-grab film after cash-grab film, relying on past success to drive current sales.
If the true spirit of a university lies in its ability to set a good example for its students, Cornell has failed us. As an academic institution with not only a responsibility, but a moral imperative to protect all of us, Cornell has promoted Immigration and Customs Enforcement recruitment and denied any measures to sincerely keep its students from harm. In the wake of recent ICE arrests in Ithaca, this has become an even greater threat to the well-being of our campus and fellow students. We must mobilize and hold our University accountable after three years of complicity.
The Cornell Ukrainian Club hosted a screening of the documentary film 2000 Meters to Andriivka on Monday to recognize four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. Now entering its fifth year, the war remains an active, grinding conflict that has devastated life in Ukraine.
Palantir Technologies, a data analytics and defense software company that has been criticized for its ties with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, hosted an invite-only recruitment event in Upson Hall on March 2. The event required every participant to sign a non-disclosure agreement, present identification and leave their backpack at the front of the room in order to attend.
I recently listened to a Today, Explained podcast titled “Are boyfriends embarrassing?” that delved into the phenomenon of women hiding their boyfriends from online platforms or avoiding displaying them on social media. The podcast mentioned the original Vogue article “Is Having a Boyfriend Embarrassing Now?” from October 2025 that first addressed the trend of women decentering men, especially in their online presence. This is partially attributed to the idea of ‘heterofatalism’ or the increasingly prevalent opinion of straight women that heterosexual relationships are hopeless endeavors.
If you’ve ever read Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, you’ll know that names play a pretty big role in it, as they do in many Dickens novels. I’m in the middle of Great Expectations right now for ENGL 3470: The Victorian Novel, and from what I’ve seen so far, Dickens has taken extra care to underscore the significance of names in this particular story. Pip, the main character, especially stands out to me; his real name is Philip, but he adopts “Pip” as his nickname during his humble childhood. Pip comes to have what are repeatedly referred to as “great expectations” — in other words, potential. As Pip’s circumstances change, so too does his nickname, despite a promise he made to always be called “Pip.” Interestingly, though, Pip’s name changes at the moment when it seems to best describe him: the word ‘pip,’ which refers to a fruit seed, denotes the very potential Pip — now known as Handel — is being told he has. Now, me being me, I couldn’t help but think of Gladys Knight & The Pips the first time Pip’s name is mentioned. But the connection is far more than just surface-level: in the early ’50s, the family band now remembered as Gladys Knight & The Pips was simply called “The Pips,” which was drawn from the nickname of a cousin. Only when the group relocated from Atlanta to New York and switched record labels did they become Gladys Knight & The Pips. Contrary to what I’ve seen from Pip’s transformation in Great Expectations thus far, however, the group only got better once their name changed. The name change allowed them to stay true to their roots while platforming their star. In honor of a group that truly did live up to ‘great expectations,’ this week’s Test Spin is dedicated to Gladys Knight & The Pips’ 1973 record Imagination — an album that gives a taste of just how far they would go.
For the third consecutive season, women’s hockey is playing on championship weekend — home of the ECAC Hockey tournament’s semifinals and final. Two seasons ago, the Red’s bid for a fifth ECAC title ended in disappointment at Class of 1965 Arena. In March 2025, Cornell avenged its loss to Colgate from the previous season, capturing the conference title in front of a raucous Lynah Rink crowd.
This year marked the 20th anniversary of the annual Darwin Days in Ithaca, which is hosted by the Museum of the Earth. More than 160 years after Charles Darwin's publication of The Origin of Species, Ithaca residents gathered from Feb. 10 to 14 to celebrate his discoveries.
This is a message to the Class of 2028, a message to all of you new sophomores doubling as ex-freshmen.
After I told my friend at Binghamton University the name of the new coffee shop opening in Collegetown, she was on her way to Ithaca within the hour. She was already a loyal customer of the chain from her location back home, and I was already planning on visiting the newly-opened Qahwah House myself, but her reaction made me all the more curious to try it out.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I plead guilty on all accounts. During the four-hour February break mecca from metropolitan New York to quaint countryside Ithaca, one yammering asshole did not make it home. He was dumped, ever so spontaneously, at a Nyack McDonald’s — in broad rush-hour daylight mind you — post cursing me out. Call it petty, call it extreme. As arbiter of my vehicle, I call it karmic retribution.
In an era saturated with glossy musical biopics, it can feel as though Hollywood is running out of legends to cover. Now enter Song Sung Blue (2025), a drama not about a chart-topping icon, but a locally famous Neil Diamond tribute duo from Milwaukee known as Lightning and Thunder. This film stands apart from other biopics in the sense that it takes a more down-to-Earth, heartfelt approach to music, fame and success. The story offers something truly intimate: a portrait of ordinary people chasing an extraordinary dream. Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman dazzle as Claire and Mike Sardina, capturing the vulnerability, stubborn hope and quiet desperation of the two performers. The film trades spectacle for sincerity, exploring love, divorce, financial instability and the ache of a shared dream that begins to fracture under real-world pressures.
Enemies-to-lovers, slow burn, one bed, dark academia, morally gray characters — the list goes on. I'm sure many readers are rolling their eyes at this all too familiar list of overdone tropes, and at this point, I am too. If I see one more book described with boring tropes and a title of jumbled, mostly non-associated genre buzzwords, I might just combust. These books have become the darlings of BookTok because they can be marketed with just a few words in videos suitable for our generation's feeble attention span. This is not to hate against BookTok — I genuinely enjoy the community that has been built from this space and can appreciate that BookTok has benefited the bookselling industry. However, the use of monotonous tropes in the publishing industry is decidedly not a good trend since it is detrimental to both the craft of writing and the hobby of reading.
After a dual meet, the Red emerged victorious at Newman Arena on Sunday, defeating Southern Connecticut State University by a score of 193.450-189.075. After a clean first-place sweep across events, several complete podium sweeps and momentous scoring, the Red went on to honor its senior class, thanking the women who dedicated years to the program.
President Michael Kotlikoff fielded questions regarding Resilient Cornell, University restructuring efforts, fiscal policy and artificial intelligence in an Employee Assembly meeting Wednesday afternoon.
Mafia is usually a boring game that no one really knows how to play. I must have played it maybe two times in my entire life before coming to Cornell Mafia Club — probably at sleep-away camp once when the counselor didn’t know what else to do with us.
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