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Finals season is once again around the corner, and it’s time to start getting ready. Study techniques may help reduce the stress and maximize efficiency during this time. The Sun compiled some science-backed final exam study strategies and stories from around campus.
Nathan Ellison, Karlie McGann, Stephan Menasche and Howie Wang contributed photography.
James Grimmelmann is the Tessler Family Professor of Digital and Information Law at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School. He can be reached at james.grimmelmann@cornell.edu.
The Cornell AAUP Chapter has been closely following the reporting that Cornell University President Michael Kotlikoff hit students with his car following an interaction with them. We have viewed the videos of the incident released by Students for a Democratic Cornell and by Cornell University. We are deeply concerned by the seeming discrepancy between the president's email statement and the video evidence. We are also troubled at the possibility that the president used a campus-wide email to get ahead of a potentially damaging story, characterizing the students’ behavior in quite damning language while excusing his own.
The first time I encountered the musical Urinetown, written by Greg Kotis, I thought it was a joke. I sat through a two-hour production about a dystopian world in which you have to pay to pee and left, woefully missing the mark on the social and political implications of the show. Only after watching the Melodramatics Theatre Company perform Urinetown last weekend, five years after my first watch, did the depth of this dark comedy set in. Though laced with campy theatrics and satirical jabs at the wealthy bourgeoisie, Urinetown makes an entirely serious point about the fate of our world should we neglect to take care of it.
With final exams beginning on Saturday, students can look to a wide range of academic and wellness-related tools and resources offered by Cornell.
Ujamaa Residential College, a program house founded in 1972 to serve Black students at Cornell, has seen its Black resident population decline significantly, and residents say the dorm is grappling with low funding, deteriorating conditions and a shift away from its founding purpose.
After months worth of film screenings, Cornell Cinema unveiled its final film of the spring in its once-a-semester Mystery Screening on April 30: The Firemen’s Ball. A 1967 Czechoslovakian comedy, The Firemen’s Ball, adds to Cornell Cinema’s long history of exposing audiences to international films. Cornell Cinema’s Mystery Screenings have previously displayed German thrillers, Scottish documentaries and even co-productions between the U.S., Latvia and Luxembourg. Providing a humorous and seemingly lighthearted glance into Czechoslovakian life, The Firemen’s Ball balances slapstick comedy with darker satirical tones as it comments on political corruption.
As a group of graduate students and graduate student organizations, we are appalled by President Kotlikoff’s actions on Thursday evening and call for his immediate resignation.
On May 1, the midwest emo band American Football released their fourth album, American Football (LP4). Given that this is their first album in seven years, I and many fans highly anticipated the release of LP4 and American Football’s subsequent tour. The album represents a shift towards the post-rock genre and darker lyrical themes, including grief, the anxieties of middle age and divorce. LP4 features some impressive collaborations on “Wake Her Up” with fourth-wave shoegaze darling Wisp and “No Feeling” with Brendan Yates, frontman of the hardcore punk band and recent Grammy winner Turnstile.
Star Wars turns 50 next year. The timeless flagship of one of the most successful media franchises of all time, George Lucas’s 1977 masterpiece A New Hope has inspired hundreds of books, films, shows and video games that prosper a half-century later. All of these stories build on that first hero’s journey: Luke Skywalker and his triumph over the Galactic Empire. Lightsabers and the Force; Jedi and Sith; X-Wings and TIE fighters. These are the underpinnings of the Star Wars iconography that has endured since the franchise’s debut, capturing the imagination of millions for nearly a half-century. These images are not, however, what constitutes the true cultural significance or essence of Star Wars.
Fenya Bartram '25 is a Cornell alum with a degree in Environmental Engineering and a climate activist with Cornell on Fire.
The low buzz of murmurs ripples through Bailey Hall as the lights begin to fade. Backstage, it’s a blur of quick footsteps and last-minute stretches as dancers rush into position. The music hums to life, soft echoes bouncing off the walls as the curtains break apart. The sound of movement continues until suddenly, the spotlight is on center stage. Music erupts from the speakers, and dancers flood the stage, their rhythmic steps sealing each movement and claiming the night as their own.
Cecily Cox is an MBA candidate at Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management, where she serves as Student Council Co-President, a Sustainable Business Fellow and Student Advocacy Chair for the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly.
On Thursday night, President Michael Kotlikoff bumped a student with his car after leaving the Cornell Political Union debate on the Israel-Palestine conflict. By Friday morning, before the University had contacted the students involved, at least 16,000 members of the Cornell community received Kotlikoff’s account of what happened to their inbox. The account did not match what the footage would later show.
In most states, a box of tampons is taxed. A box of Viagra, in many of those same states, is not. New York repealed its tampon tax in 2016, lifting a 4% state sales tax that had quietly added up over a lifetime of purchases, but more than 18 states still classify menstrual products as non-essential — the same category as decorative candles. The tax itself is small, but what it tells you is not.
I was surprised to read about the recent incident in the parking lot outside Day Hall involving President Kotlikoff.
If you haven’t already viewed the final exam schedule to see where you’re taking your finals, I suggest doing so soon — save yourself the surprise of finding out two days before your exam that you have to trek all the way past the Dairy Bar. After all, the experience of taking a final varies drastically from student to student, and location plays a big role in that difference. Most students would probably say that the ideal test-taking experience is comfortable and spacious, with plenty of room to write. Unfortunately, not every building on campus offers that.
By the time that the TCAT 30 bus from North Campus reached Collegetown, it was already packed. Precariously balancing a bouquet in my lap, I watched as more students squeezed in, standing shoulder to shoulder as we made our way into the Commons. The crowd wasn’t for a Lot 10 Drag Show, but instead for something less widely recognized: the Multicultural Greek & Fraternal Council’s annual Greek Freak Showcase at the Ithaca State Theatre.
I have never been a ballet aficionado, and my time in the theater has historically been limited to an annual family outing before Christmas to watch The Nutcracker in New York City. While early childhood experiences fostered a fondness for ballet, I regarded the artform as distant and formal — something that I respected but did not necessarily understand. It was for these reasons that I never considered the possibility that I could simply walk to Willard Straight Hall and watch the Cornell Ballet Club perform; and, when I heard about the chance to watch CBC’s production of Giselle, I had no idea what to expect.
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