MCNALLY | Give My Regards

Lots of things end with a bang, something very finite — lasting — where you feel the reverberations even when it is over.

GONZALEZ | Grad Column finalFINAL(2).pdf

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? 

BLANCHARD | A Long-Awaited (But Not Anticipated) Goodbye

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. 

ASACK | The Cornell Daily Sun Does a lot of Good. Next, I Hope They Do Quality Control

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.

GONZALEZ | God Is Good Because Things Could’ve Happened Differently

Habakkuk 3:17-19 (NIV)

Celebrating Thread Magazine: A Hub for Fashion, Creativity and Self-Expression

On May 2, Thread Magazine launched their spring semester issue. 

BE OUR GUEST | Inside the Booth: Tim White on Projection, Film and Philosophy

Cornell Cinema’s projectionist preserves the craft of film exhibition while pursuing a decades-long creative project of his own.

COMMITTEE ON THE FUTURE OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY | Why Cornell’s Land Grant Mission Must Define Its Future

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.

JASO | Agoras, Underground

“Dance culture exploits the power of music to build a future on the desolate terrain of the present.” 

No. 8 Johns Hopkins Ends Season for No. 7 Men’s Lacrosse

When the NCAA tournament comes around, lacrosse is at its best. Every team has its season on the line every game and the intensity and physicality of the game is ramped up.

‘AI is, at its heart and best, a tool’: Students, Faculty Weigh in on the Use of Large Language Models to Read Academic Papers

Artificial intelligence has grown commonplace in higher education, with some students using it to assist with learning and professors often acknowledging or integrating it into their classes. The development of large language models — a category of deep learning models trained to understand and generate natural language  —  could help young students and researchers in academia. 

Kotlikoff Faces Calls to Resign Following Car Incident

Several organizations on campus are calling for President Michael Kotlikoff to resign following an incident where he drove his car into a current Cornell student and ran over a recent graduate’s foot during a confrontation with people affiliated with Students for a Democratic Cornell on April 30.

Are You One of 4,504 Big Red Missed Connections?

Since October 2021, Cornell students have tensely audited the Instagram account @bigredmissedconnections’ anonymous confession posts just to confirm their absence of a secret admirer. Between the account and its newer handle @bigred_missedconnections which was created last fall, over 4,500 entries have accumulated — searchable only through reading text post screenshots one by one. Now, a student-run project has changed that.

Cornell Athletics Launches NIL Marketplace for Student-Athletes

Almost five years after the Supreme Court’s NCAA v. Alston decision allowed college student-athletes to monetize their Name, Image and Likeness (NIL), Cornell Athletics has launched Big Red Exchange, the University’s first official NIL marketplace. 

‘Midnight in Marrakech’: Arab Student Association’s Cultural Showcase

On a chilly evening, the familiar wooden beams of the Ithaca Farmers Market pavilion were transformed into a vibrant, glowing enclave. Underneath a canopy of warm string lights, the chilly upstate New York air gave way to the rich aromas of roasted meats, sweet mint and familiar spices. This was “Midnight in Marrakech,” a Moroccan cultural night hosted by the Cornell Arab Student Association that offered students a temporary, yet entirely immersive, escape to North Africa. 

PREVIEW: No. 7 Cornell to Host Johns Hopkins in NCAA First Round

After a successful season culminating in an 11-4 overall record, men’s lacrosse earned the right to be one of the eight schools to host a first-round NCAA tournament game. The Red will face Johns Hopkins, who posted a 9-5 overall record.

GUEST ROOM | Unfinished Campus Business: Memorializing Three Young People Who Gave Their Lives for the Right to Vote

Bill Schechter ’68 is the author of Bringing History Home: A Teachers Quest To Make The Past Matter and was a high school teacher for over three decades. He can be contacted at schech@rcn.com. 

Board of Trustees Launches Investigation Into Kotlikoff Car Incident

Cornell’s Board of Trustees announced the establishment of an Ad Hoc Special Committee to investigate the incident between President Michael Kotlikoff and a group of students on April 30, according to a statement sent to the Cornell community by the committee on Thursday evening.  

Canvas Comes Back Online Following Cyberattack Disruption

This article is a developing story and will be updated with new information as it becomes available.

May 6th, 2026 Crossword: Behind the Scenes