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SCHECHTER | Harvard Took the Bullet: Let’s Follow

By Henry Schechter · Wednesday, April 16, 2025

How does higher education overcome paralysis? With a first mover: a respected individual who takes that gutsy first step and absorbs the uncertainty of action. Maybe the risks aren’t as bad as everyone’s making them out to be, but they'll never know until someone acts. Once that dam breaks, momentum can build.

EDITORIAL | The Sun Endorses Saad Razzak ’26 for Student Assembly EVP

By The Editorial Board · Wednesday, April 16, 2025

BURZLAFF | Teaching and Learning as Acts of Hope

By Professor Jan Burzlaff · Monday, April 14, 2025

CARUSO | Cornell has a (D)uty to (E)veryone (I)n this Community

By Paul Caruso · Friday, April 11, 2025

AGRAWAL | Finding Your Resistance: Personal Struggle and Political Action

By Professor Anurag Agrawal · Friday, April 11, 2025

GUEST ROOM | On the Position of University Presidents

By Opinion Department · Thursday, April 10, 2025

SEX ON THURSDAY | Lust on Lexapro: Navigating Sex on SSRIs

By Grace Elmore · Thursday, April 10, 2025

CHANCELLOR | The True University

By Armand Chancellor · Wednesday, April 9, 2025

In mid-March, Christian pastors and apologists (i.e. defenders of Christianity) Cliffe and Stuart Knecthle came to campus, the closest thing to Socrates in Plato’s dialogues coming to fruition. Hundreds of students, not just from Cornell but from all over, gathered together in the center of campus not to hear someone drone on about their worldview but for dialogue.

OPINION | The Sun Gets a Glow-Up

By Sophia Dasser · Wednesday, April 9, 2025

161 Things Every Cornellian Should Do

By The Editorial Board · Wednesday, April 9, 2025

CHEYFITZ | President by Fiat

By Professor Eric Cheyfitz · Monday, April 7, 2025

STITH | Cornell is a Microcosm of America, and Kotlikoff is our Own Trump

By Yihun Stith · Monday, April 7, 2025

BURZLAFF | Office Hours (Open Door Edition)

By Professor Jan Burzlaff · Sunday, April 6, 2025

GUEST ROOM | Silenced, Not Heard: The Collapse of Open Dialogue

By Opinion Department · Saturday, March 29, 2025

Many Israelis, Palestinians and diaspora Jews have long believed in open dialogue and collaboration as a path to peace. However, the landscape shifted dramatically following the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 and the war that followed, challenging long-standing efforts for peace. The rise in hostility made it impossible to continue these conversations.

EDITORIAL | The Bubble Has Popped

By The Editorial Board · Friday, March 28, 2025

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR | Class of 2029, Welcome to Cornell!

By Julia Senzon · Friday, March 28, 2025

Editor-in-Chief Julia Senzon '26 welcomes the Class of 2029 to Cornell.

GUEST ROOM | Cornell, Stand Firm

By Opinion Department · Thursday, March 27, 2025

GUEST ROOM | Cornell! Academic Freedom Depends on Your Resistance!

By Opinion Department · Wednesday, March 26, 2025

As Trump continues to annihilate American democracy by asserting that the truth is what he says it is, morality is what he says it is, law is what he says it is, and the Constitution means what he says it means, shouldn’t we be able to rely on the administrators leading our universities to stand with us? To protect us? Sadly, that’s not happening.