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GUEST ROOM | Let’s Revive Cornell’s Culture of Ideas

By Opinion Department · Monday, Sept. 29, 2025

Professor Mike Fontaine reminds students of a venerable Cornell tradition: attending guest lectures. The first speaker for a lecture series held by the Program on Freedom and Free Societies is Dr. Sally Satel. On Monday, Oct. 6, at 5:30 p.m., join her for a discussion on medicine in the age of social justice

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KASSAM | Death of A Seedling

By Karim-Aly Kassam · Friday, Sept. 26, 2025

Professor and Opinion Columnist Karim-Aly Kassam reflects on how the death of a seedling of The Peace Tree unleashed a silent horror: we could no longer tolerate the loss of yet another living being within our midst before it reached its prime.

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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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GLASGOW | Can We Talk

By Leo Glasgow · Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025

Opinion Columnist Leo Glasgow '26 introduces his long-time fortnightly column, Can We Talk, taking his readers through his earlier life and why he's arrived here: writing to you.

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ANNIVERSARY | Hilary Krieger

By Opinion Department · Friday, Sept. 19, 2025

Former editor-in-chief Hilary Krieger '98 reflects on how The Cornell Daily Sun became her formative home and training ground, instilling in her the ethics, urgency and community of journalism that continue to shape her career and conviction that the field is worth fighting for.

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ANNIVERSARY | David Goldston

By Opinion Department · Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025

Assistant Managing Editor '78 David Goldston takes us through how the Sun has found its way into his life. He leaves Cornell with a message: "In these challenging times for journalism and politics, the Sun is needed more than ever for the Cornell community and beyond. But it also has an immeasurable and maybe unexpected impact on each of us who worked there. I wish the Sun and all those connected with it many more years of success."

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ANNIVERSARY | Joseph Schatz

By Opinion Department · Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025

Joseph Schatz was an assistant sport editor at The Sun, and now he's deputy editor in chief at Politico. In the Sun's special birthday issue, Schatz describes his journey from our favorite college paper to a global newsroom.

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ANNIVERSARY | Jay Branegan

By Opinion Department · Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025

Jay Branegan '72, once an associate editor at The Sun, recalls the paper's coverage of the 1969 Willard Straight Hall takeover and more recent COVID-19 pandemic. His reflections indicate the importance of traditional journalism amidst prolific misinformation.

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