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GUEST ROOM | What Does OSCCS Stand For? Not Students, Not Community

By Opinion Department · Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025

Despite our good-faith compliance with OSCCS’s procedures, an office that promises due process, student justice and democratic governance kept us in the dark. After 52 days of silence, merely one day after the announcement of our fall recruitment schedule, we were struck with a temporary suspension. There was no room for negotiation, discourse or the opportunity to defend ourselves. We write this guest column not to absolve our responsibility to improve our organization, but rather to convey a broader concern: the undemocratic nature of OSCCS harms the very student body that it claims to serve. 

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GUEST ROOM | In the Face of Oppression, You Cannot Remain Neutral: Cornell’s Active Recruitment of ICE Deportation Officers Endangers Immigrant Students

By Opinion Department · Monday, Sept. 15, 2025

Kevin Chang '28 and Romneya Quennell '26, members of the Cornell Young Democratic Socialists of America, condemn the listing of a Deportation Officer position with Immigration and Customs Enforcement on the Cornell Career Services website. They and Cornell YSDA calls on the University to remove the listing and for greater transparency in selection of employers for career boards.

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GUEST ROOM | Insufficient Elevator Information Fails Disabled Cornellians

By Opinion Department · Monday, Sept. 15, 2025

Kaelin Lamberson '28 argues that Cornell University does not disclose sufficient information about elevator accessibility on its Housing & Residential and CampusGroups web pages. She notes that this is dangerous for disabled Cornellians, and reflects on it as a disabled woman who was negatively affected by Cornell's lack of transparency.

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GUEST ROOM | Nepal's Black Day: Stand With Nepal's Youth

By Opinion Department · Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025

In our guest room, science staff writer Reshma Niraula reflects on Nepal’s Black Day on September 8, 2025, when Gen Z protesters rose against corruption and injustice, and calls on the Cornell and Ithaca communities to stand in solidarity through action and remembrance.

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GUEST ROOM | Flight or Fight?

By Opinion Department · Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025

In our guest room, Professor Kareem Kassam urges tenured faculty to honor their social contract by standing firm in times of political fear, arguing that academic freedom is not retreat but responsibility to contextualize, to speak for the common good and to guide students toward critical reasoning, imagination and empathy.

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GUEST ROOM | From the Inside: eCornell’s Culture of Bias and Burnout

Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025

In Opinion's Guest Room, former Cornell employee Cathy L. Pantano, condemns eCornell’s toxic workplace culture of retaliation, burnout, and ignored discrimination claims and urges the University to reconcile its teachings on leadership, HR, and equity with its own practices.

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GUEST ROOM | Cornell Reckoning

By Opinion Department · Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025

Associate Dean Emeritus David N. DeVries critiques Cornell’s austerity measures, arguing that “headcount reductions” obscure administrative mismanagement and disproportionately affect vulnerable workers.

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GUEST ROOM | The Sound of Silence: On Music, Politics and Belonging at Cornell

By Opinion Department · Friday, April 25, 2025

In a Guest Column, Catherine Appert, Associate Professor of Music and Sound Studies, responds to the cancellation of Kehlani’s Slope Day performance. She argues that Kehlani’s very existence, their very presence on stage as a Black American, non-binary, lesbian artist whose mixed heritage includes Native American and Filipino roots, is in itself always already political. She questions: Who, in fact, does Kotlikoff’s “unity” ultimately encompass?

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GUEST ROOM | The Incredibly Shrinking University

By Opinion Department · Friday, April 25, 2025

In a Guest Column, Professor David A. Bateman responds to Kehlani's disinvitation from Slope Day. He writes: Unity cannot be imposed by fiat, by arbitrarily deciding that some views must be insulated from exposure to others. Unity, in any case, is not the point of a university; it is the conflicting and contradictory whole to which we aspire, not the false protection of a flattened, squeezed-out discourse.

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GUEST ROOM | Cornell Dining and the Campus Community: A Recipe for Successful Food Waste Reduction

By Opinion Department · Thursday, April 24, 2025

This column, written by Anna Ben-Shlomo, a Sustainability Coordinator for Cornell Dining, and Ambarish Lulay, the Executive Chef at Cornell Dining, is especially timely as we approach the end of April, Sustainability Month at Cornell. It’s the perfect moment to reflect on what Cornell is doing — and more importantly, what we all can do — to fight food waste on campus.

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