No. 19 Men’s Hockey Shuts Down No. 20 Union, 2-1

Heading into Friday night, No. 20 Union boasted the third-best offense in the nation, averaging four goals per game.

Men’s Soccer Throttles Lafayette in NCAA First Round

Coming off of a tough loss in the Ivy League championship against Princeton, Cornell drew a matchup against the lowest rated team by RPI in the NCAA tournament. The Red faced off against Lafayette on a chilly night in front of a large Berman Field crowd.

PREVIEW: Empire State Bowl Approaches as Football Prepares for Rival Columbia

The final week of the 2025 Ivy League football season is upon us. The season has marked both highs and lows in head coach Dan Swanstrom’s second year at the helm of the program. Looking back at the first half shows a team that struggled to find any form of success. However, if you were only looking at the second half of the season, you would think the team was a dominant force in FCS football. 

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CORNELL NOTES: Ranked Matchup on Deck for No. 19 Men’s Hockey

After securing six points last weekend, No. 19 men’s hockey will close out its four-game homestand with a pair of upstate New York foes.

Men’s Swim and Dive Splits Tri-Meet While Women Sustain Losses in Ivy League Showdown

Men’s and women’s swim and dive traveled to Hanover, New Hampshire for its first Ivy League action of the year against Harvard and Dartmouth on Nov. 21 and 22. The men were able to split the meet, taking down Dartmouth by a score of 158-142 and losing to Harvard, 215-85. The women’s team fell in both contests, losing 161-130 to Dartmouth and 191-108 to Harvard. 

Celebrating Willard Straight Hall: A Century As The Heart of Cornell

Willard Straight Hall, one of the first student unions in North America, has had a rich 100-year history evolving from the earliest dances, recitals and art exhibitions to the momentous protests that reshaped campus life.

Cornell Votes Reports Steady Student Registration Amid Competitive Election Cycle

With several competitive races that occurred this election cycle, the number of Cornell students who registered to vote is expected to stay consistent with past years, according to Cornell Votes President Erik Lapidus ’27. 

CORNELL NOTES: Capital Region Weekend Awaits No. 4 Women’s Hockey

After its most difficult weekend of the season — a home-and-home split with rival Colgate — No. 4 women’s hockey will take on two ECAC teams at the bottom of the conference standings: Union and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Cornell will make its annual trip to the Capital Region looking to use some of the lessons it learned from an up-and-down weekend against the Raiders.

Cornell to Purchase Collegetown Building Valued at $30 Million

The University is set to acquire The Breazzano Family Center for Business Education in November, further expanding Cornell’s presence in Collegetown.

Christine Lovely, Chief Human Resources Officer at Cornell Departs for UCLA After Three Years

Christine Lovely, vice president and chief human resources officer at Cornell, is stepping down to pursue a job as the inaugural vice chancellor for campus human resources at the University of California, Los Angeles, according to the Cornell Chronicle. 

TEST SPINS | Bruce Springsteen: ‘Born in the U.S.A.’

“Bruce Springsteen broods in an empty theater in Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (2025),” reads the caption of a screengrab in Lisa Laman’s review of the film. Apparently, she wasn’t kidding — Deliver Me From Nowhere was a complete flop in the box office, with one of the worst debuts ever for a film with such a large scope of theaters. In a world in which audiences are constantly getting biopics shoved down their throats, it’s difficult not to compare the film’s performance to the success of one of its immediate predecessors, A Complete Unknown. But while reviews like Laman’s attribute Deliver Me From Nowhere’s failure to a lack of big names and “spectacle” — especially in comparison to films like A Complete Unknown, Elvis and Rocketman — I’d like to offer an alternative explanation. Deliver Me From Nowhere focuses on Springsteen’s process making Nebraska — a critically acclaimed album, but certainly not his most successful. Director Scott Cooper told Entertainment Weekly that “One can very easily make a film about Born in the U.S.A. … Nebraska is Bruce alone with a four-track recorder whispering his despair into a microphone. Born in the U.S.A. is Bruce talking about some of the same themes, but he sets them in stadium-sized anthems. One is Bruce’s private diary, and the other is a larger, public declaration. You can’t have one without the other.” There is undoubtedly value in such intimate documentation of a period of struggle in a lauded singer-songwriter’s life, and it’s particularly important when you consider that most of Born in the U.S.A. was written during the Nebraska period; nevertheless, regardless of the value, audiences want to hear hits — not introspection — within this musical biopic landscape. Nebraska is and will always be an important part of Springsteen’s discography and story, but another look at Born in the U.S.A. makes it clear why a movie about this album would have been a box-office smash.

Meet The 2025-2026 First-Year, Transfer Student Assembly Representatives

On Nov. 13, the Student Assembly swore in the winners of its Fall 2025 election. Arman Fard ’29, Ellie Porter ’29, Jai Anand ’29 and Myshay Causey ’29 are the new first-year student representatives, and Zachary Yabut ’28 was elected as the transfer representative. The Sun spoke to the five new representatives to learn more about their priorities for the Assembly.

Men’s Basketball Halts Army’s Firepower, Wins Home Opener

Cornell disarmed Army’s attack on Tuesday night at Newman Arena, pulling away late behind a barrage of threes and a major spark from its bench to claim an 86–73 win in its home opener.

Hearsay Performs With Beauty and Talent at Annual Fall Concert

On Nov. 14, Hearsay, one of Cornell’s all-women a cappella groups, performed their annual Fall Concert. The hour-and-a-half-long performance ultimately left the audience in awe of the group’s talent and presence. The atmosphere of Call Auditorium only served to enhance the performance, with the speakers amplifying the energy and rhythm of the group through the floor and seats.

Killing the Author, One Meme at a Time

“Who speaks through the meme?” Prof. Anna Shechtman, English, asked to a small auditorium of students, a TV screen of the Disaster Girl meme standing next to her. Is it the original creator of the meme? The social media user reposting it onto their meme account? Someone else? If Roland Barthes were at that Coffee & Chat with Profs session, sitting in a corner, bearing a smoked cigarette on his right, he might respond: “We shall never know, for the good reason that writing is the destruction of every voice, of every paint of origin. Writing is that neutral, composite, oblique space where our subject slips away, the negative where all identity is lost, starting with the very identity of the body writing.”

HATER FRIDAY | AI Cat Cheating Videos

Every single person in my life knows, to some degree, that I absolutely hate AI. I’ve only used ChatGPT once in my life to gather some sources for a project due the next day. I refuse to use any generator in the hopes of cartoonifying myself in a Studio Ghibli-esque style. I can’t even laugh at the Sora Jake Paul videos making fun of him.

Committee on the Future of the American University to Start Meetings with University Community, Shared Governance

The Committee on the Future of the American University announced in a University Assembly meeting on Tuesday that it has begun meeting with Cornell students, faculty and staff to inform its recommendations about envisioning the long-term future of the University. 

Melainie Rogers, BALANCE Founder, CEO, Brings Eating Disorder Education to Cornell Health

Melainie Rogers, founder and CEO of the New York City-based eating disorder treatment center BALANCE, will meet with Cornell Health professionals — including nutritionists, physicians, psychiatrists and social workers — to discuss eating disorder prevention and care among college students on Dec. 3.

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