CHEEK | The Toxic and Elitist Culture of Pre-Professional Clubs

KOH | The (Budget) Cost of Ignorance

AGRAWAL | Candor and Chlorophyll

GUEST ROOM | We See Your Silence

JASO | Be Whoever You Want. Just Don’t Be VP (for Now)

REYEN | Qualitative Study Reveals ChatGPT Up, Critical Thinking Down

GPT may seem like the busy student’s solution to managing heavy course loads, job applications, and club activities. But what writing skills will we have left if the tool becomes the first — and final — draft? Using GPT as a crutch removes the process of forming connections and patterns while writing, minimizing the ability to learn from writing feedback and academic improvement. 

GUEST ROOM | “Little p” Politics

In a Guest Room Column, Professor Alexandra Dufresne defines "little p" politics — the emotional and interpersonal considerations that drive people’s behavior. How does this impact public policy and political decisions?

BURZLAFF | Beyond the Silent Wall: Participation Is a Process, Not a Performance

LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Faculty Call on Trustees to Oppose Political Interference in Higher Education

Over 500 Cornell faculty members signed an open letter to the Board of Trustees urging the University to defend academic freedom amid growing political attacks on higher education. Released on the National Day of Action for Higher Education, the letter calls for legal resistance, public condemnation, and collective action across institutions.

SEIELSTAD | A Degree in Decline: The Hidden Costs of Cornell's Changes

Columnist Pilar Seielstad chose CALS for its unique blend: Ivy League rigor coupled with the practicality of a land-grant institution. However, Cornell's recent push for self-sufficiency within CALS has her questioning whether University decisions are inadvertently diminishing the value of its degrees by fostering academic silos, limiting interdisciplinary exposure and obscuring student achievement.

BURZLAFF | The Tip Jar (1)

How do you empathize with someone you can’t understand? In his first The Tip Jar series, Professor and Opinion Columnist Jan Burzlaff explores the need for understanding and community in a time of societal division.

SCHECHTER | Harvard Took the Bullet: Let’s Follow

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

The Sun places its trust on Saad Razzak ‘26 for executive vice president of the Student Assembly. He balances this local efficacy with a clear-eyed understanding of broader political challenges.

BURZLAFF | Teaching and Learning as Acts of Hope

What does it mean to teach and learn in uncertain times — both in the world writ large and here on campus? Professor and Opinion Columnist Jan Burzlaff reflects on navigating education as a collective construction of meaning when tensions spike, trust breaks down and people pull back into their own spaces.

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

As diversity, equity and inclusion programs in higher education are being targeted by President Donald Trump, how does Cornell's guiding principles of "any person, any study" position it as the leader of DEI defense? In his first-ever Sun piece, Columnist Paul Caruso argues that as one of the first universities in the nation (and notably the first Ivy League) to admit Black Americans and women, it is in our DNA to defend our community tooth and nail.

AGRAWAL | Finding Your Resistance: Personal Struggle and Political Action

GUEST ROOM | On the Position of University Presidents