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There exists a complete disconnect between Cornell and its Ithaca home. Though it’s easiest to notice superficially (the University sits atop a hill too steep for many to climb) the devil is in the details. Cornell enjoys keeping its undergraduates in its bubble, where it can shape their reality.
I recently had a professor watch me handwrite an em dash in class and tell me they had never seen someone use one without ChatGPT telling them to. I was taken aback since he had just seen me put my pen to paper, with no other devices out.
All too often, what we believe is shaped by what we think we know. And what we think we know is shaped by the world immediately around us: our family, our hometown, our side of the Internet, our media, our University.
On a night when every rebound felt heavier and every possession felt bigger, Cornell turned Newman Arena into a cauldron of chaos, outlasting Colgate in a breathtaking double-overtime finish on Thursday.
Time is not linear in the astral plane: We all come into the onion at once.
When I was a kid, I could never stop talking. I found the words falling off my tongue at an expeditious rate, absorbing the space of all rooms unfortunate enough to have me. I have excused this with the fact that I am from Texas, where the people are loud and their voices are hearty, but saying this is just a way for me to claim some piece of home.
Now in its sixth year, the Cornell project team CU GeoData bridges engineering and earth sciences to design and deploy environmental sensors, including a sensor network across the Finger Lakes and a specialized weather balloon for atmospheric research. Through these projects, the team hopes to make data more accessible to local communities and contribute to research on environmental change.
Reid Weingarten ’71 and Darren Indyke J.D. ’91 were among the top-mentioned individuals in the latest batch of convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s personal emails released by the House Oversight Committee on Nov. 12.
Dean of Faculty Prof. Eve De Rosa, human ecology, announced that the Faculty Senate voted to pass a resolution criticizing the increased use of temporary suspensions to discipline students involved in protest activity in an email to faculty senators. The resolution passed in an 80-16-15 vote on Friday.
From studying anemone fights to connecting students with research opportunities, Rowan Lopez ’26 is making a difference in the world of undergraduate research at Cornell.
Loki Dokey, a gift store tucked in an alley off Dryden Road, has become a cozy Collegetown escape. However, the business faces financial strains just three months after opening in August due to high rent, import costs and low visibility.
To what extent do we create euphemistic narratives to escape our inner dissonance? How far will our minds stretch to contrive a self-image that doesn’t make us cringe? “Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? … Who’s afraid of living life without false illusions?” asks Edward Albee. Cog Dog’s production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? premiered Nov. 22 in a converted Cornell Cinema for its one and only showing, digging into the grist of these themes.
From Nov. 12 to Nov. 20, four Cornell students transformed the Olive Tjaden Experimental Gallery into a space of reflection and rebirth through their collaborative exhibition: What Remains — Traces of Fire, Memory and Renewal. The show was curated by Christina Song ’28, Cesaire Carroll-Dominguez ’28, Hayden Hogue ’28 and Ryan Ye ’28, exploring themes of remembrance and restoration in the wake of the Palisades fire that destroyed parts of Los Angeles in January of this year.
I’ve always found that one of the quietest and sharpest ironies of campus life is how confidently we treat exhaustion as evidence of achievement. You hear it everywhere at this point in the semester — the late-night chatter about all-nighters, the implicit competition over who has slept the least, the casual way we turn near-burnout into proof of our commitment. Fatigue becomes our most trusted currency, the clearest sign that we are truly trying. And yet, as Thanksgiving break approaches, I want to offer a different path — an observation I wish someone had given me years ago: rest is not a luxury or a sign of weakness. It is a form of study itself.
If one thing has shaped my journey, it's contrast. I’ve moved from the lively stadiums and busy lecture halls of a Big Ten university to the serene, thoughtful atmosphere of Cornell — from a populated college town to beautiful gorges, to the idea of learning more than I could imagine. In the midst of all this, between campus coffee shops and late-night political discussions, an idea started to emerge: The Tobin Times.
You probably use AI. For your 10:10 a.m. seminar with the strict AI policy, you might think it’s OK. You might even get away with it. Maybe you completed those Canvas modules on academic integrity after submitting one too many em dashes, but nothing is stopping you. You are just like everyone else— AI use has become routine, but most people still don’t utilize it to its full potential.
Earlier this year, the Ithaca Police Department cheerily announced “increased enforcement” of city ordinances forbidding, among other common activities, cycling, roller-skating and skateboarding in the Ithaca Commons. Cyclists, ever the punching bag of suburbanites, are now relegated to the forks of Route 79 if they wish to visit the Commons: busy, three-lane roads lacking in any cyclist protection. The alternative option, the so-called “Bike Boulevard” (Tioga Street), which consists of a couple of speed-bumps, and naturally, no dedicated bike lane isn’t much better. Once they reach the Commons, there are, in a mocking twist, myriad bike racks, all in view but embarrassingly unreachable by bike, forcing a dismount and a walk — a visceral reminder that steel companions are second-class citizens here. In comments relating to this crackdown, Deputy City Manager Dominick Recckio claimed it was all part of an effort to make the Commons a more “welcoming, inclusive space.” If we want the Commons to be more inclusive, why not start with cyclists?
With Thanksgiving on the horizon, Cornellians continue studying for prelims and preparing projects.
On Nov. 21, Cornell’s all-female a cappella group Touchtones performed iTones, their annual fall concert, at Cornell Cinema. The group’s many hours of choreography and vocal practice clearly shined through during the performance, and we left impressed.
A few weeks ago, I wrote an article highlighting the work of my favorite hip-hop groups from the ’80s and ’90s. One of these groups, De La Soul, were pioneers in the subgenres of jazz rap and progressive rap. The trio (made up of Kelvin “Pos” Mercer, Vincent “Maseo” Mason and David “Trugoy the Dove” Joliceur) covered important social issues in their verses and produced some of the best beats of all time by layering samples in intricate ways. On Nov. 21, De La Soul released A Cabin in the Sky, their ninth studio album. The album marked their first major release since 2016 and their first release since Joliceur’s tragic death in 2023. Boasting 20 tracks and a total length of over 70 minutes, A Cabin in the Sky presents impressive work that likely results from the group’s renewed collaboration with former producer Prince Paul.
Solutions by The State News
