Guest Room

GUEST ROOM | Cornell, Help Send Alex Bores ’13 to Congress

By Guest Author · Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Eric Yachbes '27 urges his peers to vote for Alex Bores '13 in New York's 12th Congressional District Election for more AI safety.

GUEST ROOM | Higher Education’s Blind Spot

By Guest Author · Tuesday, May 26, 2026

GUEST ROOM | The Potemkin Process

By Guest Author · Thursday, May 21, 2026

GUEST ROOM | Kotlikoff Weaponizes Dialogue

By Guest Author · Wednesday, May 20, 2026

GUEST ROOM | Kotlikoff’s Record on Dissent Raises Concerns About His Fitness to Lead Cornell

By Guest Author · Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Professor Emeritus Paul Sawyer argues that President Kotlikoff is unqualified to be president in light of his actions on April 30, compounded with the his administration's misuse of temporary suspensions.

GUEST ROOM | Kotlikoff Makes the Rules; He Needs to Follow Them Too

By Guest Author · Thursday, May 7, 2026

Cornell Law Professor James Grimmelmann analyzes and discusses the legality of the incident between students and President Kotlikoff following the April 30 Cornell Political Union debate.

GUEST ROOM | Why Cornell Needs a Fossil-Free Degree

By Guest Author · Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Fenya Bartram '25 writes about the need for a "Fossil Free Degree" and for Cornell to divest from fossil fuel companies.

GUEST ROOM | What Ghana Added to My MBA Experience

By Guest Author · Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Cecily Cox, an MBA candidate at Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management, reflects on a school sponsored trip to Accra, Ghana and discusses how it impacted her and changed her view of business management.

GUEST ROOM | Cornell Taught Us Better Than That, Ms. Weingarten

By Guest Author · Thursday, April 23, 2026

Dana Stangel-Plowe ’92, Chief Program Officer at the North American Values Institute, rebukes Randi Weingarten ’80, criticizing the hypocrisy in her leadership of the AFT and arguing that open inquiry at Cornell must be preserved by rejecting the oversimplified "oppressed/oppressor" binary that Ms. Weingarten's ideology espouses.

GUEST ROOM | Why Community-Engaged Learning Matters

By Guest Author · Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Basil Safi, executive director of the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement, advocates for the importance of community-engaged learning as a cornerstone of the Cornell education as it directly applies academic research to have a positive impact on communities.

GUEST ROOM | Recovery Belongs at Cornell — And So Do the Students Living It

By Guest Author · Wednesday, April 15, 2026

Jacob Parker Carver, an Alcohol & Other Drug Specialist at Cornell Health, writes to Cornell's students going through alcohol recovery and proposes several ways that the University can aid in their journey.

GUEST ROOM | The Misrepresentation of History and the Ragebaiting Man

By Guest Author · Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Alexander Walters '28 responds to a Mar. 21 column on Francis Fukuyama's theory on The End of History and the Last Man. Walters provides a clarified interpretation of Fukuyama's work and discusses the importance of transparency and explanation in academic conversations.

GUEST ROOM | Acknowledgment Without Accountability

By Guest Author · Friday, April 10, 2026

Prof. Jon W. Parmenter, history, presents his original research on the profits the University continues to accrue from the land gained through Indigenous dispossession and argues that Cornell's land acknowledgement doesn't do enough to address the ongoing alienation of Indigenous nations from their lands.

GUEST ROOM | From Minnesota: In Response to Glasgow

By Guest Author · Thursday, April 9, 2026

Anna Lovat '28 uses her perspective as a Minnesotan to discuss the violence from ICE and respond to Opinion Columnist Leo Glasgow's Feb. 24 piece, Your Only MAGA Voice.

GUEST ROOM | Cornell’s Dangerous Compliance

By Guest Author · Monday, April 6, 2026

American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten ’80 urges Cornell to defend academic freedom and resist the Trump administration's attempts to weaponize antisemitism against the autonomy of institutions of higher education.

GUEST ROOM | It’s Time for Cornell Alumni To Withhold Financial Donations

By Guest Author · Thursday, March 26, 2026

Robert C. Gottlieb ʹ72, a former Cornell trustee and member of Cornell Courage, warns Cornell against conceding again to the administration in the face of an open EEOC investigation and urges alumni to withhold donations to the University until it implements safeguards for student privacy and academic freedom.

GUEST ROOM | Why Cornell's Silent Majority Must Speak

By Guest Author · Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Derek A. Berman, a fifth year Ph.D. student in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and a 22-year veteran of the U.S. military, criticizes the Student Assembly's Resolutions 55 and 61 for their selective ideological partisanship and calls upon Cornell's Jewish students to more passionately defend their values and beliefs.

GUEST ROOM | Cornell Students Are Training To Be AI's Backup

By Opinion Department · Thursday, March 19, 2026

Kashyap Rajesh '28 writes about the shifting job market and how AI will impact entry level jobs. He argues that Cornell Career Services needs to follow suit and shift their guidance to reflect the reality of employment options for students after graduation.

GUEST ROOM | In AI Research, Academic Integrity Falls by the Wayside